1. President Allan Gibbard called the meeting to order at 12:17 PM in the Wellington Ballroom and appointed Richard DeGeorge as Parliamentarian.

2. The minutes of the 2001 meeting were approved with the correction that Philip Quinn was appointed as parliamentarian for that meeting.

3. President Allan Gibbard presented Graduate Student Travel Stipend awards to winners for 2002. The recipients of stipends were:

Sean J. Allen-Hermanson
David L. Clemenson
Andrew Egan
Benjamin Hill
Jose Martin
Ryan Nichols
Matthew H. Phillips
Timothy Rosenkoetter
Kevin Zanelotti

4. Secretary-Treasurer Robin Smith reported on actions taken by the Executive Committee at its 2002 meeting, Wednesday, April 24, 7:00 PM:

Present: Marcia Baron, John Deigh, Allan Gibbard, Karen Hanson, Terence Horgan, Elisabeth Lloyd, Robin Smith.

Absent: Lawrence Sklar. Visitors: Jerome Schneewind, Judith Thomson, Elizabeth Radcliffe.

a. President Gibbard called the meeting to order at 7:12 PM.

b. Minutes of the 2001 Executive Committee meeting had been approved by email.

c. The agenda was approved by consensus.

d. The Executive Committee had agreed in email actions to a proposal from the Chair of the Board of Officers, Jerome Schneewind, to increase the meeting registration fee to $50 for members (with no change in the fee for graduate student members) and rebate $15 of this amount to the National Office. This followed similar actions by the Pacific and Eastern Division Executive Committees. However, the Central Division Executive Committee also wished to discuss the matter further at the 2002 annual meeting. In connection with this issue, Board Chair Schneewind reported to the Executive Committee on the expansion of the activities and expenses of the National Office in the last two years, including increases in staffing, and the state of the search for a new Executive Director. He said that the increased revenue would permit the incoming Executive Director to fill two new
permanent staff positions and added that he considers this an interim measure, adequate to cover the Association's funding needs for three to four years. Schneewind then answered a number of questions from members of the Executive Committee concerning the fee increase and related matters.

Following discussion, the Executive Committee decided to stand by its previous approval of the fee increase proposal. Deigh moved that the fee differential between non-members and members be increased from the present $5 to $10.

Hanson seconded; the motion carried unanimously.

Gibbard proposed that a statement giving the rationale for the fee increase be published in the Proceedings as an item of "News from the Divisions" and also be included in the materials given to members who register at the 2003 Annual Meeting. This was approved by consensus. The Executive Committee also agreed by consensus to propose to the Secretary-Treasurers of the Eastern and Pacific Divisions that a common statement of this form for all the Divisions be drafted and, with approval of the language by the Divisional Executive Committees, be published as above for all three Divisional meetings.

e. In Past President Sklar's absence, Smith presented the Report of the Nominating Committee. He also noted that he is on the ballot for re-election as Secretary-Treasurer but for a term limited to two years.

f. Secretary-Treasurer Smith presented the Treasurer's Report for 2001-2002 and budget proposal for the coming year. The Executive Committee accepted the Report and the Budget Recommendation for fiscal year 2002-2003 by consensus.

g. Smith reported on the sharing of advertising revenues during 2001-2002, noting that the Central Division had been a major beneficiary of this revenue.

h. The Executive Committee considered a proposal for a Fall 2004 annual meeting from the Pittsburgh Hilton. This would be an implementation of the proposal to change the Division's meeting time to the fall. In lengthy discussion, members raised concerns about whether it is the time now to undertake this change. Concerns included the possible impact of the change on the one-year job placement operations, the effect on registration of making this change in relatively close conjunction with the fee increase, questions about whether the 1999 membership poll should be construed as a mandate for change or an approval to explore changes, problems about finding a fall time that does not conflict with the beginnings of academic years, and the likelihood that the change will not result in significantly improved hotel rates. Ultimately, the Executive Committee voted not to accept the proposed 2004 contract by a vote of 5-0, with two abstaining.

i. Smith reported on the actions taken by the Executive Committee in email discussion since its meeting in May 2001.

j. The proposed Agenda for the Business Meeting, as printed in the February 2002 issue of the Proceedings, was approved by consensus.

k. The meeting adjourned at 10:00 PM.

5. In the absence of Past President Lawrence Sklar, Chair of the 2001-2002 Nominating Committee, President Allan Gibbard presented the Committee's nominees for office, as follows:

For Vice President:

Stephen Darwall
Daniel Garber
Mark Wilson

For the Executive Committee, Term 2002-2005:

Daniel Farrell
Joseph Mendola
Rachel Barney

For the 2002-2003 Nominating Committee:

Robert Batterman
Michael Detlefsen
Anil Gupta
Thomas Lennon
Louis Loeb
Terry Pinkard
Frederick Schmitt
Joan Weiner

For Secretary-Treasurer:

Robin Smith

No further nominations were presented from the floor. The nominations listed will appear on the 2002 mail ballot.

6. Jerome Schneewind, Chair of the Board of Officers, reported on the request from the Board of Officers that each Division increase its registration fee to $50 for regular members and remit $15 of the fee to the National Office [see above, 1d]. Noting that the current Executive Director, Elizabeth Radcliffe, had announced her resignation effective in the next fiscal year and that the Association was in the process of searching for a new Executive Director, he said that staffing has become a major problem in the National Office with the growth of the Association and the increase in National Office activities. The Eastern Division has provided $80,000 in funding for the current year to support the costs of increased funding; the increase in registration fees will generate approximately this amount of revenue on a long-term basis.

Executive Director Elizabeth Radcliffe, reporting on National Office activities, said that the office is now functioning effectively with temporary additional staff. She also noted that results from the survey of the membership, approved by the 2001 Board of Officers meeting, were then being processed by the statistical office at Indiana University and, in response to a member's question about the value of the survey, said that she expected it to be useful.

Philip Quinn asked whether the Executive Committee had the authority to set a fee increase on its own. Hugh McCann stated that
the last fee increase had been approved by Executive Committee action. President Allan Gibbard noted that it was a matter of some urgency that the fee increase be approved before the current Executive Director search was completed. Kenneth Kipnis noted that the increase would bring the APA closer into parity with what other academic associations charge.

Parliamentarian Richard DeGeorge announced, after having studied the Bylaws of the Division, that there is no explicit constitutional provision concerning the setting of registration fees and that, apart from the question of the timing of the meeting itself (concerning which the Division is to consult with the Executive Director), all arrangements concerning the meeting are the responsibility of the Executive Committee. He took it as evident that this would include determining registration fees.

7. No new business was presented.

8. President Allan Gibbard asked the members to stand while he read the names of those members who had died since the 2001 meeting:

Peter Clare Appleby
Morton O. Beckner
Robert L. Caldwell*
Norman S. Care
James Leroy Celarier
Houghton Baker Dalrymple
Wilfrid Desan
Henry M. Estall
Orin C. Flowers
Marie C. Fox
J. Paul Franke
Delbert J. Hanson
Richard M. Hare
Frederick P. Harris
Paul Turner Hershey
Walker H. Hill
Richard Hocking
Henry Johnstone, Jr.
Howard Kahane
Jerrold Katz
George Kerner
Jeffrey Lehmann
Marcia Lind
James W. McClendon, Jr.
Bella K. Millmed
Harold S. Murphy
Robert Nozick (Eastern Div. President, 1997-98)
James Willard Oliver
James Parsons
Philip L. Peterson
Kenneth Lee Pike
Patrick Romanell
Harry Ruja
Wesley C. Salmon (Pacific Div. President, 1977-78)
Francis Seaman
Craig L. Stark
Lester Start
Foster E. Tait
George V. Walsh

*Robert L. Caldwell died in 1998; the APA learned of his death in 2001.

9. The meeting was adjourned at 12:45 PM.

Respectfully submitted,

Robin Smith

Secretary-Treasurer, APA Central Division