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Meeting opened by President Judith Meece at 8:06 p.m.
Approval of minutes from 2012 business meeting, Meece noted that only members present at the last meeting may vote to approve the minutes. Sharon Tettegah moved to approve the minutes, this was seconded by Serena Shim – All in favor, motion carried.
President Meece then gave her report to the membership. In the reported she noted that that the Division has expanded the mentoring opportunities to include more early career educational psychologists. In addition our Division membership has increased with Tony Artino the chair of the membership committee to find members who have not renewed their membership. The Division is also continuing to expand communication services included the work of our communications director Wade George. Finally, we have begun to focus on the division future with some long range planning. Meece then invited Division Members to give reports.
Mike Yough and Ellen Usher co-chairs of the Graduate Student Affairs committee introduced the eight 2013 Graduate Student Seminar participants. Yough extended thanks to the many volunteers among the Division membership who served as mentors, and panelists. Anita Woolfolk-Hoy was asked to come to the front, Tracy Dursken, one of the seminar participants, spoke: “In the spirit of Hawaii and on behalf of all graduate students we wanted to thank you for all you have done for us and for getting the doctoral student program started back in 1995.” Woolfolk commented: “These are the best thing that we do the things we do for our graduate students.”
Meece shared that a mentoring lunch and grant writing workshop was offered for early career educational psychologists. 23 attended the lunch. In addition he Division hosted a roundtable-symposium for the early career grant awardees. This year five of those awardees presented their research and received feedback on it.
A report on Division Membership with shared. The Division offered free membership for one year impacted our membership. Meece indicated that the challenge is now to get these members to continue in the Division and pay dues. Among the new members these included: 164 professional affiliates (note, per APA By-laws, these members have no voting privileges, cannot be nominated for Fellow status, and cannot serve as a Division officer), 73 new members, and 293 student affiliates (also have no voting privileges).
Meece extended much thanks to the hard work of Martin Ford, Chair of the Fellows Committee, and his committee to move our members forward in the process of becoming fellows. Meece announced that several members have received Fellow status:
| New Division 15 Fellows | Fellows Added from Other Divisions | ||
| 2013 | Timothy Urdan, Santa Clara University | 2014 | |
| Christopher Wolters, University of Houston (now at The Ohio State University) | Charles Greenwood, University of Kansas | ||
| 2014 | Lynley Anderman, The Ohio State University | Todd Little, University of Kansas | |
| Anatasia Kitsantas, George Mason University | Darcia Narvaez, University of Notre Dame | ||
| Christine McCormick, University of Massachusetts | |||
| Helen Patrick, Purdue University | |||
| Dan Willingham, Harvard University | |||
Meece reported on the Division’s Social Media Presence. Use of the Division’s Facebook, Twitter, and Google accounts are increasing. The Division’s job board is attracting a lot of visits and searches. Our blog on psychology today, we have heard from the grad students that they are looking for opportunities to publish. These blogs are reviewed by Stephen Tonks, his committee, the President, and Wade George. Many universities are considering emerging scholarship in alternate forms like blogs. We also have a weekly newsletter that allows us to reach out to new members.
Sharon Nichols, the Division 15 Treasure presented her Treasurer’s Report. Nichols stated that for three years we have been in fantastic financial solvency, our annual income ranged the majority of our income is from Educational Psychologist. Our expenses have also been growing over the years, as more initiatives are proposed. Anyone who wants specific information can contact Nichols. In 2009 we spent 115K and in 2012 201K. For, 2013 we anticipate spending more than we bring in this year, by about 20K. Currently the division has about 1 million in assets. Nichols stated that we are really at a juncture where we can make decisions about not only our annual spending but our long term goals and plans for our financial future. Look for discussions and input moving forward as these things become more important. She concluded by stating “Thank you it’s been wonderful being treasurer and it’s also wonderful not being treasurer.”
Meece then introduced the incoming president, Terri Thorkildsen, four new Executive Committee members: Karen Harris (President Elect), Michele Gregoire Gill (Treasurer), Heather Davis (Member at Large), and Tim Curby (Representative to APA Council). The 2014 program chairs are DeLeon Gray and Cary Roseth.
Meece announced that Clark Chinn’s editorship of Educational Psychologist ends in 2015. The call for a new editor was approved. The Executive and Publications committees are recommending and encouraging that 2 co-editors apply as a team to better manage the work load and to increase the diversity of topics included in the journal. The call will go out to all relevant sources to recruit new editor. The decision will be made at the AERA 2014 meeting.
Meece also spoke about the upcoming Division 15 conference, chaired by Marty Carr, to be held in 2014. This is a member initiated conference to develop a community beyond the 20 hours offered by APA. The Conference will be small and three locations are under consideration. Meece alerted members that a survey will be coming out to gather information.
Meece turned to a discussion of the long range financial planning that the Division is beginning. A survey of the membership about our spending activities indicated that the main reason people are members is a connection to the profession; and that their first priority for spending is publications, second most important was graduate student mentoring activities. 87% of responders voted in support of raising dues to $22. Meece noted that the rate for “members” has been the same for 16 years. The Division Executive Committee voted to approve the dues increase to $15 for Members, Fellows, & Associates.
Meece also shared that are changes coming in the 2014 program from APA, namely that there will be one-third fewer program hours and more joint sessions with other divisions. There are also changes in APA Governance Structure coming soon.
Membership Discussion. When the floor was opened to questions, Gale Sinatra asked about the timing of the Division 15 Conference, which the minutes from the August 2012 business minutes indicated was to be held in 2013. Meece clarified that since the last business meeting the conference was moved to 2014 so as to not conflict with the SCIPIE conference.
Awards, Grants, and Recognition. Meece announced the recipients of the 2013 Division Achievement Awards these members will give presentations at the 2014 meeting:
| Achievement Awards | Recipient | ||
| E. L. Thorndike Career Achievement Award | Sandra Graham | ||
| Richard E. Snow Awards for Early Career Contributions to Educational Psych. | Kou Murayama | ||
| Paul Pintrich Outstanding Dissertation Award | Deadline: December 31, 2013 | ||
| Division Research Grants | Recipients | ||
| Early Career Research Grants | Roisin P. Corcoran, Johns Hopkins UniversityLeslie Echols, UCLAJamaal S. Matthews, Montclair State University | ||
| Dissertation Research Grants | Loren Marulis, University of MichiganNinger Zhou, Purdue University | ||
| Recognition of Service to the Division | |||
| Role | Members | ||
| 2013 Program Co-Chairs | Matt Irvin | Jeff Greene | |
| 2010-2013 Executive Committee: Treasurer | Sharon Nichols | ||
| 2010-2013 Executive Committee: Member-at-Large | Sandra Graham | ||
| 2010-2013 Executive Committee: Representative to APA Council | Tim Urdan | ||
| 2010-2013 Executive Committee: President Elect, President, Past | Marty Carr | ||
| Fellows Committee | Martin Ford, Chair | Karen R. Harris | |
| Nominations Committee | Marty Carr, Chair | Timothy Urdan | |
| Publications Committee | Ellen Mandinach, ChairAnita Woolfolk Hoy, Chair | Sharon Tettegah | |
| Early Career Educational Psychologists Committee | Sharon Tettegah, ChairDiley Hernandez | Martin JonesFrancesca Lopez | |
| Graduate Student Affairs Committee | Matthew Lavery | Ruth Jackson | |
| Thorndike Award Committee | Eric Anderman, Chair | Lauren Resnick | |
| Dissertation Awards | Martin Jones, ChairCarey E. Andrzejewski | Robert KlassenPatricia Ashton | |
| Early Career Research Grants | Paul Schutz, Chair | Francesca LopezNancy Perry | |
| Memorial Award | Paul Schutz | ||
| Representatives | Ronald Marx, Coalition of Psychology in the SchoolsLynley Anderman, Committee of Women in PsychologyRobin Roberson, APAGS Representative | ||
Conclusion. Meece concluded by stating that the Division has a busy year ahead including three conferences, attracting new members, beginning to develop long term financial plan, identifying new editor(s), and beginning negotiations with Taylor & Francis for contract with EP. Finally, she stated that we need to continue to build our communications success. Terri Thorkildsen, the incoming President, then thanked Meece for her service, and the meeting concluded.