Annual Meeting Review Committee

The Annual Meeting Review Committee submitted its final report and recommendations to the APSA Council at the September 2007 meeting.  In developing the findings, the Committee solicited and reviewed over 300 comments from the membership, reviewed surveys of 2006 Annual Meeting attendees and non-attendees, invited public comment on a website forum, and considered other pertinent information in its review of the Annual Meeting procedures, practices, and operations. You can read their findings and recommendations here, along with a notations of the Council decision on each recommendation.

Review:     Committee Findings &     Recommendations with Notation on Council Decisions (.pdf)     Supporting Documents

Purpose of the Committee

The Annual Meeting Review Committee was formed to address both specific strengths and weaknesses of the current approach and anticipate trends that could influence the format, organization, rules, and cost of the APSA Annual Meeting over the next 5-10 years.  Included in this task, but not limited to them, are such issues as the:

• allocation formula for distributing panels among program divisions and related groups;
• alternatives to the conventional panel and roundtable formats;
• participation rules;
• guidelines for siting future meetings; 
• promotion of community within the profession by use of scholarly meetings; 
• structure of the meeting and its capacity to incorporate new waves of thinking or methods of research; and 
• introduction of new technologies to enhance meeting presentations and operations.