APA Committees

Call for Nominations 2008

COMMITTEE NOMINATIONS FOR 2008 ARE NOW OPEN (click here for nomination form)

Deadline for nominations extended to June 1, 2008
Deadline for materials extended to June 15, 2008

Nominations Invited for APA Committees

Dear APA Member:

Nominations, including self-nominations, are now in order and are more than welcome for positions on APA committees. The committee term for which nominations are sought begins July 1, 2009, and typically runs for three years thereafter. This is the third year in which we have set the deadline for nominations at May 1 in order to allow candidates to submit their materials before that general academic dispersion known as Summer.

We encourage you to get involved in the APA committees because they fulfill the national purposes of the APA and, in that capacity, they are responsive to the needs of APA members. The work of the committee members includes the development, planning, and supervision of a broad range of APA projects, such as prizes, awards, newsletters, sessions at divisional meetings, web resources, surveys, input to the APA Board of Officers, and in general, activities that help philosophers perform their professional duties as teachers and researchers.

All members of the APA, including graduate students, are eligible to serve as members or chairs of the APA's Committees, and the Board makes a special effort to create committees whose membership reflects the diversity of the profession.

Committee appointments will be made at the November 2008 meeting of the Board of Officers and announced soon thereafter. Committee Chairs may be appointed as Associate Chairs for one year before they serve full three-year terms as Chairs.

Instructions for nominations and a list of committee vacancies are given below. Please contact us with any questions you may have.

Additional information about the charge, current membership, and activities of each committee can be found at http://www.apa.udel.edu/apa/governance/committees/. You may also contact current committee chairs for further information.

I hope that you will think seriously about nominating persons you know who would serve willingly and effectively on APA committees. Please don't overlook the possibility that one of those persons is you. Strong, active committees help make a strong, active APA.

David E. Schrader
Executive Director

Nomination Requirements, Instructions, and Committee Vacancies:
Nominators and Nominees must be APA members. Membership will be verified online.
Self-nominations are welcome.
A member may nominate as many other members as she wishes.
A member may be considered for only two different committee vacancies.
If more than two nominations are submitted for a single member, she will be asked which two vacancies she prefers.
Deadline for nominations has been extended to June 1, 2008.
Deadline for materials in acceptance of a nomination has been extended to June 15, 2008.
A reminder email for incomplete nominations will be sent in April. Any materials not received by May 15 will be closed (voided from the system). Completed nominations/materials will then be compiled and reports generated for use by the Committee on Committees (5 Board members who make committee recommendations to the full Board).

To Nominate Someone Else:
—You will need the nominee's full name, current email address, and university affiliation.
Enter user name & password to verify membership.
Complete both sections of the online form (Nominator & Nominee).
Choose the committee/position (e.g. "Chair - Philosophy and Law").
—You may include a comment on behalf of the nominee in the field provided.
Check your submission for accuracy—click "submit"—wait for confirmation page.
The confirmation page (print or save for your records) completes your submission.
An email confirmation will automatically be sent online to both you and the nominee.

Self-Nominations:
Deadline for Materials is June 15, 2008.
Enter username & password to verify membership status.
Check the Self-Nomination box.
—You need complete only the top portion of the online form.
Choose the committee/position (e.g. "Chair - Philosophy and Law")
Check your submission for accuracy—click "submit"—wait for confirmation page.
The confirmation page (print or save for your records) will instruct you to:
Send an email to apa_committees@udel.edu; be sure to include (in the body of your email) your name, university affiliation, and a brief statement (1_2 paragraphs) of your interest/qualifications for serving on this committee (this serves as the cover letter to the committee and is quite important).
Attach your CV to your email (doc, rtf, pdf, wpd, or txt) _ OR _ send 5 copies via U.S. Mail to the National Office as directed online.
An email with these directions will automatically be sent to you by the system.
We will contact you only if we need further information.

Nominees (other than self-nominated):
Deadline for Materials is June 15, 2008.
—An automatic attempt will be made (by the online system) to contact the nominee using the email address provided by the Nominator.
If membership is confirmed, we will notify nominee of the nomination submitted on his behalf.
—Included will be information regarding membership for non-members.
Once membership is established, we will continue with the normal process.
Reply to our email to: Accept or Refuse the nomination.
If accepting, be sure to include (in the body of your email) your name, university affiliation, and a brief statement (1_2 paragraphs) of your interest/qualifications for serving on this committee (this serves as the cover letter to the committee and is quite important).
Attach your CV to your email (doc, rtf, pdf, wpd, or txt) _ OR _ send 5 copies via U.S. Mail to the National Office as directed online.
You should expect an email acknowledgement that your reply/materials are received.
We will contact you again only if we need further information.

If you are unable to use the online process, we request that nominations be sent by email to Evonda Acevedo.

The following vacancies will be filled for terms beginning July 1, 2009:
Chair - Committee on Philosophy and Law 1 vacancy
Chair - Committee on Non-Academic Careers 1 vacancy
Chair - Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy 1 vacancy
Associate Chair - Committee on the Inclusiveness in the Profession 1 vacancy
Associate Chair - Committee on Black Philosophers 1 vacancy
Associate Chair - Committee on Philosophy and Computers 1 vacancy
Associate Chair - Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in the Philosophy 1 vacancy
Associate Chair - Committee on the Status of Women 1 vacancy
Member - Committee on Academic Career Opportunities and Placement 3 vacancies
Member - Committee on Inclusiveness in the Profession 1 vacancy
Member - Committee on International Cooperation 3 vacancies
Member - Committee on Lectures, Publications, and Research 3 vacancies
Member - Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession 2 vacancies
Member - Committee on the Teaching of Philosophy 2 vacancies
Member - Committee on the Status of American Indians in Philosophy 2 vacancies
Member - Committee on the Status of Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies 2 vacancies
Member - Committee on Black Philosophers 3 vacancies
Member - Committee on Philosophy and Computers 2 vacancies
Member - Committee for Defense of the Professional Rights of Philosophers 2 vacancies
Member - Committee on Hispanics 3 vacancies
Member - Committee on Philosophy and Law 2 vacancies
Member - Committee on Public Philosophy 3 vacancies
Member - Committee on the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People in the Profession 2 vacancies
Member - Committee on Philosophy and Medicine 2 vacancies
Member - Committee on Non-Academic Careers 2 vacancies
Member - Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy 2 vacancies
Member - Committee on Philosophy in Two-Year Colleges 3 vacancies
Member - Committee on the Status of Women 3 vacancies

NOTE: While the number of vacancies identified accords with the number of positions we expect to be open, the Board reserves the right to add members to Committees, to subtract members by failing to replace members whose terms expire, or to appoint members for terms of less than three years if such modifications will serve the interests of the Association.