Supporting Documents
Annual Meeting Review Committee

The Annual Meeting Review Committee solicited and reviewed over 300 comments from the membership, and reviewed both a survey of attendees at the 2006 Annual Meeting and a survey of non-attendees at the 2006 Annual Meeting, in its review of the Annual Meeting practices and procedures.  Additionally, the following information was considered:

(all documents are .pdf unless otherwise noted)

  1. Distribution of APSA membership by field, by membership type, by year, by gender and race, by institutional type: 1995-2005...[click here]
  2. Organized Section membership, by year: 1995-2005...[click here]
  3. Participation in annual meeting by membership type, by gender, by race, by country, by division, by year, 1996-2005...[click here]
  4. Percent of total program allocation by division, by year: 1995-2005...[click here]
  5. Percent of total related group allocation by division, by year: 1999-2005...[click here]
  6. Growth in overall size of annual meeting measured by annual allocations, by category (official program, related groups, program chairs, APSA etc.), by year, 1995-2005...[click here]
  7. Annual Meeting budget, by line item, by year: 1995-2005...[click here]
  8. Annual Meeting sites, by rates, by year: 1990-2015...[click here]
  9. Copy of standard annual meeting contract...[click here]
  10. Copy of liquidated damages and force majeure clauses proposed by hotels...[click here]
  11. Description of allocation formula (take from annual memo to program committee that accompanies the annual allocations report)...[click here]
  12. Number of exhibiting companies/number of exhibiting booths...[click here]
  13. Annual Meeting statistics based on estimates and contributions from other organizations...[click here]
  14. Acceptance rates for divisions, by year:  1997-2005...[click here]
  15. *New (March 29, 2006) - Program chair responses...[click here] 
  16. Best attended panels in 2005 [click here (.xls)]
  17. Attendees - Codebook [click here (.doc)]
  18. Non-attendees - Codebook [click here (.doc)]
  19. Non-attendees - Comments [click here (.doc)]