Midsummer Meeting 1996

Executive Board

Council of Program Directors in Community Research and Action

Phone Conference Call Meeting on July 22, 1996, 1:00-2:20pm

In attendance: Cary Cherniss, Leah Gensheimer, Mark Goldstein, Greg Meissen, Cliff O'Donnell, Arthur Reynolds, Alan Tompkins

1. Chair Greg Meissen welcomes all. The minutes to the Midwinter meeting were unanimously approved.

2. Board discussed the convening of the 1997 midwinter meeting. There was agreement that Kansas City, MO would be a good central location. Date to be determined but probably February.

3. Board welcomed new member Alan Tompkins (U of Nebraska), who represents community/other programs.

4. Bylaw changes. The proposal to change the name of the council was approved by the membership. The new council name is Council of Program Directors in Community Research and Action (CPDCRA). Greg will communicate changes to membership by October 1996. Two other changes in Board practice were that (i) the Chair will distribute an annual report and (ii) all council members will be invited to the business meeting at the Biennial. Cliff will distribute the 1996 annual report to the membership by October 1996.

5. Board members discussed filling the student position on the executive council by the midwinter meeting. The student will likely come from the University of Missouri-KS or Witchita State U. Leah and Greg will follow-up. We clarified that the student position is a two-year appointment.

6. The 1997 Biennial Meeting in South Carolina (in May). The Board discussed the importance of having a presession the day before the conference to discuss the issues of accreditation and specializations in training. The following individuals were recommended to be on the panel: Ray Lorion, Bob Newbrough, Bill Davidson, and Ed Seidman. Alan agreed to help organize the session. One question raised was who will chair the session? All agreed that the Board business meeting will be after this presession.

7. During the conference, a session was recommended on undergraduate issues to be presented by Jim Dalton. Another recommended meeting session was on the developing a Consortium (a la Wood's Hole) among community programs to coordinate the sharing of information on graduate admissions and on student/faculty exchanges. Board agreed to pursue such a session. Cliff agreed to organize and Alan will help.

8. The special issue on training will be published by the Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community in Jan/Feb 1998 issue. Board members wrote the articles.

9. New Members. Both individual and institutional membership on the council have been added in the past year. Board unanimously agreed to try to actively recruit new members. A procedure to do may need to be further discussed.

10. Cultural and racial issues. Board discussed the planning of training activities on cultural/racial issues. Will need to follow-up on this at midwinter meeting.

11. Web Page. Board discussed what information to include about the council on the SCRA/Council Web site. We agreed that information should include: statement of mission, annual report, and possibly the membership roster and application form. Cliff agreed to follow-up and to disseminate roster and application. Reminder that council name change should be reflected on the Web site.

12. APA liason. Following last year, we agreed to continue to have our Board Chair attend the APA council meeting in early 1997. It was recommended that we arrange to get on the meeting agenda. A care package could be sent prior to the meeting.

13. Midwinter meeting will be in Kansas City, place to be determined. Leah will investigate. It will be all day on a Saturday.

14. The reading list on community psychology (completed in 1994) will be sent out to the membership. There is a possibility that this list could be updated at some future point. To help develop undergraduate and graduate courses, we agreed to submit course syllabi to the Clearinghouse (via Jim Dalton; jdalton@planetx.bloomu.edu). Marc will help organize.