Help Grow the Discipline: Sponsor APSA Membership for Your Students APSA has established a membership subsidy for Masters and first- and second-year Ph.D. students. A doctoral program can sponsor one year of APSA membership for their students. Extending a complimentary year of membership to graduate students can help orient their career and encourage their engagement in the discipline. For details, see Department-Sponsored Student Membership.

The Association aims to supply political science departments with resources to support departmental administration and to keep in touch with trends and development in the discipline.

Join  the over 700 political science departments that belong to APSA through the Departmental Services Program. For more information, see Department Membership.

ANNUAL EVENTS
APSA sponsors two annual events for department chairs--a conference for chairs held in the spring, usually in tandem with the Teaching and Learning Conference, and a workshop for chairs held at the Annual Meeting.

Annual Meeting Workshop for Chairs
These sessions focus on issues important to the unique challenges facing department chairs. The 2008 Annual Meeting Workshop for Chairs topic will be Interdisciplinarity and the Political Science Department Chair: Implications, Challenges, and Opportunities. For more information, see 2008 Annual Meeting Workshop for Chairs.

Conference for Chairs
The APSA Conference for Chairs was held in 2007 and 2008, and is expected to become an annual event, to be held in tandem with the APSA Teaching and Learning Conference. More on the Conference for Chairs.

REPORTS DATA AND RESOURCES

• APSA Report on Work and Family 
• Coalition on the Academic Workforce (.pdf) 
• Post-Tenure Review Analyzed Excerpt from "After the Big Decision: Post -Tenure Review Analyzed," in Policies on Faculty Appointments--Standard Practices and Unusual Arrangements, Cathy A. Trower, Editor, Harvard University
• Assessment in Political Science Resources related to assessment of political science programs and assessment of political science student performance.

Funding and Development

Development at the Departmental Level: 2007 Workshop for Chairs
Each year at the APSA Annual Meeting, APSA hosts a workshop for department chairs that focuses on issues important to department chairs. The 2007 workshop addressed the unique challenges of development.  It featured presentations by Stephanie A. Banta, Director of Development for the Northwestern University's Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Alice J. Bardea, Senior Director, Major Gifts, at Northwestern, and Kate Forhan, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Northeastern Illinois University, along with a question and answer period.  This full transcript of the session is available for $10.00.   

Program and Development Opportunities  A list of resources that we hope will grow over time. 

For a customized collection of links to information of interest to political science departments, see Quicklinks for Departments.