Under the topic Report of
the Recruitment Committee we would like to suggest to discuss a Recruitment
Drive which should include the following components:
Action100: Those people who
have been participants of action 100
should now be asked to become members so that we have space and room for
a new set of action 100 people.
Thereshould be an analysis
by each Division President in which countries the division is strong or weak
and what can be done to increase the number of members of this particular
division.
We had a membership drive 1 plus 1 in which we asked each member to
recruit one more member. I think we should restart such a membership drive
again.
EC-membersand Division
Presidents as well as Officers should each pledge to get at least 20 additional
members into the association each year in which they are Presidents or
EC-members. Thus, we should call this the EC plus 20, Division President plus
20 drive. This is doable and should give the association an important impetus.
We should make a list and
circulate it during our meeting in which we identify key persons in departments
of applied psychology or in departments of psychology, which have applied
areas. We should then ask key members of these departments individually to
become members of our association. This should be done in different countries
and across the different subdisciplines of psychology for which we have
divisions. The individual letters will then be sent by the President of our
association with a copy to the Division President or the EC-member who has
suggested this person. Once these key players actually became members we should
ask them whether they would also like to recruit graduate students in their
units.
We should make a particular
effort to increase graduate student members. For this purpose we should ask
ourselves for each country how we can have better access to graduate students
in applied psychology and recruit them for our association, for example, by
sending letters to graduate students of APA or of other groups in other
countries.
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