- TEACHING AND LEARNING CONFERENCE, FEB. 22-24, 2008, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
- Submit Your Proposal Now: Call Deadline Extended to Sept. 26
This conference provides a forum for graduate students and scholars alike to share effective and innovative teaching and learning models and to discuss broad themes and values of political science education. Join us this spring to expand your professional understanding while experiencing the many sights and sounds of San Jose, California.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas and successes!
Go to www.apsanet.org/tlc2008 to find out how to get your proposal considered.
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Using a working-group model, will consist of 12 tracks constructed around such themes as:
- Program Assessment
- Internationalizing the Curriculum
- Professional Development
- Teaching Across the Discipline
- Diversity and Inequality
- Teaching Research Methods
- Graduate Education
- Simulations and Role Playing
- Civic Engagement
- Core Curriculum/General Education
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Workshops focus on practical issues related to teaching and allow participants to interact with political scientists outside their assigned track. The call for workshops includes the following themes:
- Integrating Technology in the Classroom
- Classroom and Program Assessment
- Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
- Teaching Sessions for Graduate Students
- Open Call
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- Plan Ahead for San Jose
Many departments and teaching and learning centers on campuses have extra resources to support teaching and related professional development that might be available to faculty applying to attend the Teaching and Learning Conference. Here are some quick facts to help with your preparations and grant and funding applications. Early registration is available online now.
Early Registration: August 15, 2007-December 3, 2007
Member $ 210
Non-member $ 290
General Registration: December 7, 2007-January 15, 2008
Member $ 240
Non-member $ 325
Visit www.apsanet.org/tlc2008/ for up-to-date information. Contact Hayle Ziobro at hziobro@apsanet.org with any questions.
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- Encourage Your Teaching Institution to Support the Teaching and Learning Partners Program
Showcase your institution to the political science community by becoming a 2008 APSA Teaching & Learning Partner. The 2008 APSA Conference on Teaching and Learning offers a special opportunity to enhance your institution's visibility in support of teaching and learning. Over 300 scholars will gather in San Jose, CA on February 22-24, 2008 for three days of forums on political science education.
Partnership Benefits:
- Recognition on APSA's website (48,000 hits daily)
- Recognition in PS (16,000 subscribers)
- Recognition at the 2008 APSA Annual Meeting (7,000+ attendees)
- Recognition in the 2008 Teaching and Learning Conference program (300 attendees)
- Recognition in on-site signage at the 2008 Teaching and Learning Conference
Partnership Recognition Levels:
- Summa cum laude ($1,000 and up)
- Cum laude ($500-$999)
- Dean's List ($250-$499)
- Honor Roll (up to $249)
Contact Desiree Abeleda at dabeleda@apsanet.org if your department is interested in being recognized for its support for teaching and learning in the discipline and its leadership in securing the future of this important event.
For additional sponsorship opportunities at the Teaching and Learning Conference, please visit: www.apsanet.org/section_474.cfm.
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- APSA ANNUAL MEETING
- Call for 2008 Meeting Papers on "Categories and the Politics of Global Inequalities"
Program chairs Jane Junn, Rutgers, University-New Brunswick, and Ed Keller, UCLA, challenge scholars to carefully reconsider the evolving relationship between categories and global inequalities. Categorization and differentiation of ideas, people, institutions, and nations has continued as an unabated intellectual force in the 100-year history of political science as a professional discipline. Changes in world political economy and social organization like globalization, democratization, and international migration, highlight the dynamic character of the distinctions manifest in categories, and invite a close examination of the construction, interpretation, and maintenance of categorical boundaries.
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- Boston, the "Athens of America"
Once again, political scientists from around the world will convene from August 28 through August 31, 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts, the "Athens of America," to discuss the latest research on political science and politics and to network with colleagues.
With the Freedom Trail, Copley Square, the Boston Common and Public Garden, Fanueil Hall, Quincy Market, John F. Kennedy Library and Museum, Newberry Street, Harvard Square, and Beacon Hill, Boston features a diverse offering of culture, history, sightseeing, great walks, and fine dining. Join us in Boston for the best in political science scholarship and much, much more.
Go to www.apsanet.org/2008 for more on the 2008 APSA Annual Meeting and Boston.
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- Political Science and Beyond in Chicago
APSA returned to Chicago to explore "Political Science and Beyond." Over 6900 attendees took advantage of this extraordinary opportunity to meet with researchers, teachers, and scholars in political science and a variety of other disciplines. Many sessions emphasized creative forms of interdisciplinary collaboration that can contribute to a better understanding of U.S. and international politics. In special events, speakers from political science and other disciplines illuminated the challenges and the potentials of interdisciplinary activity:
- In his Presidential Address, APSA President Robert Axelrod (Walgreen Professor of the Understanding of Human Behavior, University of Michigan), examined the question "Can Political Science 'Export' to Other Disciplines as Well as We 'Import' from Them?"
- Cass Sunstein (Karl Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Chicago) spoke on "Extremism: Causes and Cures"
- A plenary session discussed the question "Is American Political Science Too Parochial?"
- Christian Parenti, correspondent for The Nation spoke on "Afghanistan Now: The Use and Abuse of a Buffer State"
- Sociologist Duncan Watts (Columbia University) reflected on social networks and gave updates on the research discussed in his Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
- Zoologist Frans de Waal (C.H. Candler Professor of Primate Behavior, Emory University) focused on new research on politics among primates and other developments in the years since the publication of his path-breaking study published in Chimpanzee Politics
- Sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh (Columbia University) on "Finding Democracy in the American Ghetto"
The program, highlights, and annual meeting papers from the 2007 meeting remain on line at http://www.apsanet.org/section_746.cfm.
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- APSA PROGRAMS AND GOVERNANCE NEWS
- Dianne Pinderhughes Begins her Term as APSA President
On Saturday, September 1st, Dianne Pinderhughes commenced her term as APSA President for 2007-08. She received the gavel from President Robert Axelrod at the APSA Annual Business Meeting.
Pinderhughes is Professor of Africana Studies and of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. Before Notre Dame, she taught at Dartmouth College, and the University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign. She holds a B.A. from Albertus Magnus College and a M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago. Her teaching focuses on racial and ethnic politics in the US, Voting Rights policy and American urban politics. Pinderhughes’s research addresses issues of inequality with a focus on racial and ethnic politics and public policy, explores the creation of American civil society institutions in the twentieth century, and analyzes their influence on the formation of voting rights policy.
Her publications include her book, Race and Ethnicity in Chicago Politics A Reexamination of Pluralist Theory. Pinderhughes also examines development of of American civil society institutions and their influence on voting rights policy, the The Evolution of Civil Rights Organizations in the Twentieth Century: Voting Rights and African American Politics.
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- Election Scheduled for October
During the Annual Business Meeting on September 1st, Elections Committee Chair Bryan D. Jones certified an additional nominee for a seat on the APSA Council. Catherine Zuckert, Notre Dame University, who was nominated by a petition of 145 members, joins the the 8 candidates proposed by the APSA Nominating Committee.
Consequently, APSA will hold an all-member vote beginning October 1, to determine the 2007 Council member seats. APSA members will be asked to vote for up to 8 of the 9 candidates. The election will be conducted on-line, managed by a third-party service, and members will receive both postcard and email notifications on how to proceed to their ballot. The postcard will also include instructions on how members unable to vote online may receive a ballot. The election will run until November 1, 2007. Additional information will be posted on www.apsanet.org on or before October 1.
Election Participation Requirements
Individuals whose membership is current as of 5pm EST on September 28th, 2007, and whose membership will remain current throughout the election period may vote in the APSA Council Election. To verify that your membership will be current throughout the election period and to renew, login to MyAPSA on www.apsanet.org.
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- New Officers for 2007
The following offices were uncontested at the APSA Business Meeting in September and therefore, the nominees put forward by the Nominating Committee were elected:
- President-Elect (2007-2008)
- Vice Presidents (2007-2008)
- Treasurer (2007-2009)
- Secretary (2007-2008)
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- Expressions of Appreciation for Lee Sigelman
At the Annual Meeting in Chicago, Lee Sigelman, the outgoing editor of the American Political Science Review, was congratulated and thanked for his service to the profession and his contributions to the intellectual vitality of the journal by the APSA Council and thanked for his leadership by APSA President Robert Axelrod. The APSR Editorial Board echoed these sentiments at a celebratory reception in his honor.
Sigelman was also honored at the meeting with a Frank Goodnow Award that honored his unflagging service to the profession. He was cited as having "selflessly dedicated himself to political science for over three decades, serving his colleagues and future scholars with his incredible energy and willingness to promote the broader profession and the Association."
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- Nominations Sought for Goodnow Award
The Goodnow Award was designed to recognize distinguished service to the profession and the Association, not necessarily a career of scholarship. This service may be by individuals, groups, and public and private organizations who have played a role in the development of the political science profession and the building of American Political Science Association.
Letters of nomination, including (if possible) a curriclum vita, should be sent to the following address by November 30, 2007:
Goodnow Award
American Political Science Association
1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036-1206
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- Ever Have Trouble Flying or Entering the United States?
At the August 2007 annual meeting, the APSA Council designated a Council Group on Transportation Security and Civil Liberties (Tony Affigne, Melissa Williams and Timothy Kaufman-Osborn) to look into issues that might arise in border crossings with those attending the 2009 APSA meeting in Toronto, Canada, and more broadly with scholarly travel in and outside the U.S. Among the issues of concern are airport “no fly” and “selectee” lists which can hinder and even prevent air travel, any special concerns of resident alien scholars, the effectiveness of the Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (TRIP) as a remedy for anyone who feels their name was mistakenly added to a “no fly” list, or whether there are particular groups or parts of the country where these Homeland Security/Transportation Security Administration measures are more rigorously enforced.
We’d like to hear about your experiences. In order to get some dimension of how these issues have impacted the APSA membership, the Council Group would appreciate anyone who has encountered such difficulties in their domestic or international travel to respond by email with whatever details seem relevant (denial of a boarding pass, delays in resuming travel, etc.)
We would also appreciate the assistance of department chairs in terms of encouraging members of their departments, regardless of whether they are members of APSA or not, to respond.
The Council Group will prepare travel recommendations for all APSA members, to minimize inconvenience you may face as you travel to the 2009 Toronto meeting, or to any other professional destinations. With your assistance, our goal is to ensure that APSA members are well-prepared to deal with security practices on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border. Please e-mail your comments to:
Jeffrey Biggs - councilgroup@apsanet.org
Director, Congressional Fellowship Program
American Political Science Association
1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036-1206
p: 202.483.2512
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- Minority Fellows Program Accepting Applications
The APSA Minority Fellows Program has designated more than 300 fellows and contributed to the successful completion of doctoral political science programs for over 70 individuals. The Minority Fellows Program designates up to twelve stipend minority fellows each year. Additional applicants who do not receive funds from the Association may also be recognized and recommended for admission and financial support to graduate political science programs. Fellows with stipends receive a $4,000 fellowship that is disbursed in two $2,000 payments. Awards are based on students' undergraduate course work, GPA, extracurricular activities, GRE scores, and recommendations from faculty.
The Minority Fellows program is designed primarily for minority students applying to enter a doctoral program in POLITICAL SCIENCE for the FIRST TIME. Applications will be accepted until October 26, 2007. For more on the program and how to apply, see www.apsanet.org/content_3284.cfm.
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- Become or Find a Mentor
The APSA mentoring initiative is an opportunity for all political scientists to to share experience and insights about career planning, scholarship, and professional issues.
Become a Mentor
There is an urgent need for mentors in the profession. As a mentor, you can act as a resource for colleagues in specific areas of interest to provide advice or share your experience on topics such as selecting a dissertation committee, publishing, planning a research agenda, managing life as a junior faculty, or balancing family and work. APSA is especially looking for those who can serve as a resource for scholars in groups historically underrepresented in the discipline.
Please visit the "Become an APSA Mentor" page and review the mentoring initiative process. Be sure to complete the mentor profile to become an APSA Mentor. Once you are listed with us as a mentor, we will, from time to time, provide your name (along with others) to those seeking a mentor with your qualifications. Once matched, it will then be up to the mentee to contact you directly to begin the conversation.
Find a Mentor
Graduate students, young scholars and teachers, minorities and women, senior faculty confronting retirement, or any colleagues in the discipline may sign up for a mentor. When you request a mentor, you will be provided with a list of contacts in the field who have expressed willingness to serve as a mentor on the issues that you specify. You may then select from this list the individual you would like to contact, and then contact them directly. Visit the "Find an APSA Mentor" page to learn more.
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- NEWS IN THE PROFESSION
- ACLS Opens Competition for 2008 Grants and Fellowships
The ACLS has announced the opening of their 2007-2008 competitions for fellowships and grants. This year's programs include:
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Recent Doctoral Recipient Fellowships
- Andrew W. Mellon Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
- ACLS Fellowships
- ACLS/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowships--these encourage humanistic research on the societies and cultures of Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.
- ACLS/New York Public Library Fellowships
- Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships
- Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowships
- ACLS Digital Innovation Fellowships
- China Studies Program
- Southeast European Studies Program
Learn more about this opportunity at www.apsanet.org/content_45332.cfm. You can also find out about many other similar opportunities on the APSAnet.org website in the Grants, Fellowships, and Other Funding Opportunities section at www.apsanet.org/section_191.cfm.
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- Collaborative Partnership Program RFA: Uganda Parliamentary Research and Internship Program
Through Collaborative Partnerships for economic and social development, USAID's Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture, and Trade/Office of Education (EGAT/ED) is assisting USAID Missions to mobilize the expertise and resources of U.S. and local higher education institutions to address critical development challenges. The overall goal is to increase the capacity of higher education institutions in developing countries to contribute to development, providing the human and institutional training needed for economic growth, good governance, and social prosperity. The objective of the Parliamentary Research and Internship Program component is to increase the capacity of the Ugandan partner institution(s) to train and support interns (undergraduate and/or graduate students) from local universities to work with parliamentary committees and caucuses. The partner U.S. institution(s) will take the lead in providing the training and technical assistance to faculty colleagues at the partner Ugandan
institutions on topics related to in-depth research, analysis and summary of issues before the committees and caucuses, comparative research and analysis with other legislatures, both regionally and internationally, field research when necessary, and legislative research/analysis.
The Higher Education for Development office of USAID’s Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade, Office of Education, which will administer this program, expects to make one award of up to $400,000 for a three-year higher education partnership, contingent on USAID funding.
Closing date: October 19, 2007.
Additional details: www.apsanet.org/content_45422.cfm
More information: Charlie Koo (202-243-7680;ckoo@HEDprogram.org)
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- UPCOMING CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, & SEMINARS IN THE PROFESSION
The following lists a sample of the upcoming conferences, workshops,
and seminars in the profession and call for paper and application
deadlines. You can learn more about any of them by clicking on the link
provided.
For a comprehensive list of upcoming conferences and call for papers in the profession, visit APSA's conferences page: APSA Calendar of Conferences. If you know of a conference that should be on this calendar, use the form provided on that page to send us the information.
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The Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs is a great resource for scholars doing research in Washington, DC.
It offers visiting scholars a furnished work space, telephone, fax,
computers, Internet access, conference space, a reference library, and access
to George Washington University’s Gelman Library.
Stays range from a few days to 12 months. Space is limited
to APSA members and available to faculty members, post-doctoral
fellows, and advanced graduate students from the U.S. and abroad. There are a limited number of funding opportunities available to support Visiting Scholars. Apply at any time. Positions are
awarded on a space-available basis. Find details at www.apsanet.org/centennialcenter. You may also contact William Harder at APSA: 202-483-2512 or wharder@apsanet.org.
Ever Have Trouble Flying or Entering the United States? 
Media Connect:
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interest? Join APSA's roster of political scientists willing to respond to media inquiries. 
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