September 2017 Member Newsletter
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The 2018 Teaching & Learning Conference will take place in Baltimore, Maryland on February 2-4, 2018. Join us for a unique conference, which provides a highly interactive forum for scholars to share research and innovative tools for political science education. The conference focuses on promoting the scholarship of teaching and learning, equipping faculty with new techniques and resources for teaching, and enhancing the role of teaching in the discipline of political science.
Register now!
The 2018 theme is "Teaching Politics as a Public Good: Citizenship and Civic Engagement in the Classroom," which
focuses on the public value of teaching political science and how studying politics can help students build tools for citizenship and civic discourse.
Submit your proposals here!
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After more than a year of consultation and discussion, the Qualitative Transparency Deliberations working groups have released a set of draft reports for public comment. These draft reports examine the meaning, practice, and norms of transparency, openness and explicitness, separately for different forms of qualitative research. We invite all political scientists to go to
qualtd.net, read any of the draft reports that are of interest to them (via the "Draft Working Group Reports" menu), and provide comments for the working groups to consider as they finalize the documents this fall.
Commenting will remain open until October 15, 2017.
Read more.
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Applications now due September 22.
The Pracademic Fellowship is administered by the APSA Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs. Dr. Beryl Radin, 2013 Gaus Award winner, established this program to create opportunities for mid-career faculty members to participate in the important experience of joining theory and practice. Selected individuals will be placed in federal government agencies in the Washington, DC area. They will be assigned to work closely with a decision-maker involved in a program of their interest to get a first-hand vantage point of a decision-making environment.
Apply now!
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For the next week, until September 27, 2017, all contributions made to the
APSA Annual Fund, will go towards the support of first generation scholars in the profession. The APSA Annual Fund provides supplemental support to critical APSA programs. The Fund also enables APSA to create new initiatives.
Click here to donate now.
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Proposal submissions due October 29.
A call for leadership proposals is open for faculty interested in co-leading the 2018 MENA Workshops. The workshops are an effort to support political science research and networking among early-career scholars across the Arab Middle East and North Africa. Workshops are led by a team of two scholars based at universities in the MENA region and two scholars based in the US or Europe. Prospective leaders interested in discussing their ideas and/or receiving feedback on a draft proposal are encouraged to
email MENA Workshops before the deadline.
Applications due December 4.
The APSA Congressional Fellowship Program is accepting applications for the 2018-2019 fellowship year. Fellows gain first-hand knowledge of Congress by serving on congressional staffs, following an intensive one-month orientation. Open to political scientists who have completed a PhD in the last 15 years or will have defended a dissertation by Nov. 2018. Applications are welcome from political scientists in all subfields with a scholarly interest in Congress and policymaking. Fellowships are also available for journalists and communications scholars.
Apply now.
Upcoming deadline is December 15.
The Centennial Center is accepting applications from APSA members for a wide array of supplemental research grants. Funding for an individual scholar is between $1,000 and $2,500. For more information, visit
Centennial Center grants online.
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Graduate Students: Join the Science, Technology, and Environmental Politics Section for Free!
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With fall semester in progress, APSA seeks mentors to provide professional advice to undergraduates, graduate students, and junior faculty in the profession. We are seeking mentors for women, individuals from under-represented backgrounds, and individuals interested in/with a background in nonacademic careers, the academic job market. Visit
APSA Mentoring or
contact us for more information.
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Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Human rights connect to political science in diverse ways, both as an area of study within the discipline and as a body of norms that informs and affects an array of activities across political science. This webinar will explore these intersections through an introduction to key human rights instruments and a discussion of ways to engage human rights issues in teaching, research, and service in subfields throughout the discipline. The webinar also will address the human rights standards that apply to scholarly activities and discuss protecting the rights of political scientists and the right to benefit from scientific progress. Sponsored by APSA and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Learn more and sign up here
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As a resource for APSA departmental members seeking external review, the Departmental Services Program maintains a list of faculty who have volunteered to serve as reviewers. If you'd like to volunteer,
please submit your information today!
Please notify APSA of any changes in department officers. Submit new appointments for department chair, vice-chair, director of graduate studies, and director of undergraduate studies, as well as changes in department administrators.
Submit new appointments here.
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APSA draws on the database to respond to media requests for experts in all areas of political science, in advance of key events or following major news developments. Inclusion in the database is a member benefit.
Sign up online! Contact
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International Workshops on Public Policy held by the International Public Policy Association, June 26-28, 2017
The International Public Policy Association (IPPA) will hold an International Workshop on Public Policy at the University of Pittsburgh from 26th to 28th June 2018. Parallel workshops will be held over three days in an attempt to provide an appropriate platform for intense discussions on specific research questions.
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Learn about APSA's membership and organized sections with our new interactive data dashboards.
The APSA Membership Dashboard reveals insights into where members come from, highlights demographic information, and shows the variety of fields that members study.
The APSA Organized Sections Dashboard outlines the demographic breakdown - including membership type, race/ethnicity, gender, age, and primary field of study - of each of APSA's organized sections.
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The September Chart of the Month highlights the starting salaries for tenure track and non-tenure track positions in the
political science profession.
For the 2015-2016 academic year, the median starting salary for assistant professor, tenure-track positions was $61,000, and for full-time, non-tenure track positions was $45,000. For more information on starting salaries and other salaries data, see the
2015-2016 APSA Departmental Survey: Faculty Salaries
report.
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APSA's book
Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines was
published on September 1 at the 2017 Annual Meeting in San Francisco. Editors Elizabeth C. Matto, Alison Rios Millett McCartney, Elizabeth A. Bennion, and Dick Simpson have gathered a diverse group of 38 contributors who approach civic engagement education from multiple disciplines and perspectives.
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Thank You #APSA2017 Attendees!
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Thank you to our annual meeting attendees for a great meeting! We hope to see you next year in Boston, Massachusetts, August 30 - September 2, 2018, to address the latest scholarship in political science while exploring the 2018 theme, "Democracy and Its Discontents."
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Looking for jobs in the discipline? The e-Jobs platform is the most comprehensive database of jobs related to political science, accessible to members. It is updated daily with new job listings and candidate resumes, and is fully searchable by field of interest, employer or candidate name, region, keyword, position, salary, institution type, and most recent postings.
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e-Jobs users can now save searches and get automatic updates by email. When you run a search on jobs, click the "Save this Search" button to sign up for daily, weekly, or monthly updates. More info is available
here.
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Updating your email preferences allows you to customize how often you'd like notifications from your group(s) or section(s) in APSA Connect sent to your email inbox. The default setting for all users is a "daily digest," which is a summary of your group messages that are posted in the community. To learn how to change or update your email preferences, click here.
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Organized Section
Chairs don't forget to submit the mandatory
International History and Politics Section have waived student membership dues.
Women and Politics Research Section have lowered student membership dues to $16.
Journals & Newsletters
Did you know that 34 out of our 44 organized sections have either a journal or a newsletter, offered in print and online?
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Current Funding Levels Extended to December 8, Appropriations Bills Advance.
On September 8, 2017
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President Donald Trump signed into law
H.R. 601
, extending current federal funding levels and raising the debt ceiling until December 8. Since Congress' return from August recess on September 5, the Senate reported out of committee its Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
legislation
, proposing flat funding for the Title VI and Fulbright-Hays programs at the Department of Education. In contrast, the
corresponding House bill
provides no funding for the Fulbright-Hays program.
The House of Representatives reported all funding bills out of committee ahead of the August recess. The House passed an omnibus appropriations package (
H.R. 3354) including National Science Foundation funding on September 14.
An amendment to the legislation
includes a 0.5 percent increase of funding for biological and physical sciences research at the NSF, while keeping overall funding levels for the NSF Research and Related Activities Account at the $30.2 million level. Without an additional offset, the increase threatens to shift funding away from other disciplines, including research in the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE) directorate. For more information about federal funding of political science research and education for FY18, see APSA's
advocacy page.
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 APSA Member of the Month: Dr. Joseph Weinberg
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Congratulations to Dr. Joseph Weinberg, our member of the month for August! Dr. Weinberg is an Assistant Professor at The University of Southern Mississippi where his research is focused on Agricultural Policy.
The APSA Member of the Month Program recognizes and highlights member achievements and professional milestones. It is a celebration and appreciation of the outstanding contributions our members make to the community through their scholarship and teaching, championship of the profession, and support of APSA and its programs.
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