Section Business

REP BUSINESS MEETING MINUTES: Friday, September 2, 2005

•   Presiding Officer: Joseph P. McCormick, 2nd (Co-President)
•   Meeting called to order: 12:15PM by Andrew Aoki (Immediate Past President)

I. OFFICERS’ REPORTS

1) Secretary (Khalilah L. Brown-Dean)
* Motion carried to accept minutes from 2004 meeting

2) 2005 Program Co-Chairs (Paula Mohan and Gary Segura)
-   Submissions are up significantly (300-400 proposals)
-   Structural discrimination against work on racial/ethnic/indigenous studies
o   Concern needs to be conveyed to APSA’s Annual Meeting Review Committee
o   Panel allocation is critical
o   REP should consider seeking allies with other sections to address this concern

3) Best Book Award (John Bretting and Ange-Marie Hancock)
-   Committee received 28 submissions
-   Committee’s concerns:
o   Timing with the presses
o   Textbooks and edited volumes

-   Tony Affigne recommends that the second consider making an award for the best book on Racial/Ethnic Politics in the last ten years
-   Hancock will continue as co-chair. Needs a co-chair.

*Motion carries to consider books in a two year window. However, no book may be nominated twice.
* Motion carries to make textbooks and edited volumes eligible for consideration every other year

4) Treasurer
   No Report

5) Best Dissertation Award (Katherine Tate and John Garcia)
-   Committee received 8 submissions
-   Two awards will be made to Eric McDaniel (Ph.D. University of Illinois-UC; University of Texas-Austin) and Rodolfo Espino (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin; Arizona State University)

6) Best Paper Award
No Report
7) Graduate Student Issues (Keesha Middlemass)
- according to the section bylaws this committee is responsible for at least one panel at the annual meeting that addresses graduate student issues

8) Electronic Communications (Karthick Ramakrishnan)
   - Title will be changed from “Web Master” to “Web Administrator”

9) Nominations <NOTE: No mention of Paula Mohan being included in the recommended list of nominees. This was subsequently corrected.

   - Graduate Student Issues: Middlemass will continue as chair
   * Motion carries to accept the slate by acclamation

-   Executive Council
* Motion carries to elect Angela Lewis

-   Secretary
* Motion carries to elect Russell Benjamin

II. NEW BUSINESS
1) APSA Labor Project (Melissa Mason and Margaret Gray)
-   Project is co-chaired by Margaret Levi and Adolph Reed
-   Two resolutions: 1) NYU decision to “derecognize” graduate union 2) APSA recognition of hotel labor dispute
-   Asking APSA to adopt a union preference clause

*Motion carries that REP will make an internal recommendation to APSA Executive Council to adopt an union preference clause

2) Section Name (Joely de la Torre)
-   Section needs a name that is more inclusive and representative

* Motion carries (18-1-4) to change the name to Race, Ethnicity, and Sovereignty

III. ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Deadline for submissions for the 2006 Southwest Meeting is OCTOBER 1st

- Committee on the Status of Blacks Promotion and Tenure Panel, Friday at 2PM
2004-2005 REP Nominations

*President McCormick recommends that the 2006 section meeting be allocated 2 hours rather than 1 hour.

*Meeting adjourned at 1:50PM

Submitted By:
Khalilah L. Brown-Dean, REP Secretary (2003-2005)

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