| November 19, 2005
NCA Convention, Boston, MA
Peace and Conflict Division: Business Meeting Minutes
Submitted by Melody Hubbard, Secretary
Jessica Jameson, Program Chair, called the meeting to order. The minutes
from 2004 were approved.
John “Sam” Keltner Award and Top Student Paper 2005: Jessica Jessica
announced the new named award for Sam Keltner. He started the Peace and
Conflict Division in 1987 in Boston, Mass. She read a brief biography
of Sam and then announced this year’s Top Student Paper awarded to: Sandhya
Bhattacharya, Pennsylvania University for “Muslim Identity in the Terrorism
Frame: How the American Press Viewed Islam after 9/11.”
Legislative Report (Discussion Items): Rod L. Troester and Edith LeFebvre
Student Convention Fees: the assembly discussed freezing student convention
fees at the 2005 level for the next three years
Accreditation for Undergraduate Programs: discussion about guidelines/standards
for accrediting undergraduate programs. The guidelines are not ready to
be adopted as more work and study is necessary.
Publishing Committee: Discussion of an open access option, we currently
have a subscription-based model where the end user pays for the intellectual
property. (NCA members get a discount.) An open access model would mean
no payment for end-users, which would result in losses to NCA since currently,
one-fourth of NCA money comes from libraries and non-member subscriptions.
There’s a push in medicine and science to do this open access model due
to the time factor of getting information out quickly. Libraries support
open access, but publishers do not. With an open access model, the money
for editing and marketing your own scholarly articles would fall on the
author/s. Additionally, convention costs could increase dramatically since
NCA would be losing one-fourth of these funds.
Boston NCA Census:
5,430 attendees at 2005 NCA
Peace and Conflict Housekeeping: Jameson
-We have 265 names on our e-mail list
-40 competitive papers were submitted in 2005 (same number as in 2004),
21 were accepted
-25 panels were submitted, 17 were accepted
-In 2004 the call for panels asked for more extensive information, which
resulted in well thought out panels this year
-In 2004 NCA gave our division 11 presentation time slots, in 2005 we
were given 19
-Membership drive this year included handing out memo pads, flyers
John “Sam” Keltner Memorial Fund and Award Status: Jessica/Susan Holton
Jessica applied for a non-endowed award and learned that if we don’t spend
the money we earn each year we would lose it. If we raise $5,000 in a
five-year time frame our award can be endowed. Jessica discussed the idea
of handing out pledge forms to get a sense of whether or not we could
raise enough money to endow the award. Division members did not think
we needed pledge forms. ?We understood that NCA will hold the money we
raise and if we don’t raise the $5,000 by 2011 we lose the money. Additionally,
we can’t solicit funds from other divisions. Susan recommended raising
an endowment to preserve our history, honor Sam Keltner and to get our
name out there with other NCA members.
Voted:
It was voted to establish a fund raising committee and an endowed award
in Sam’s name. The following people signed up to be on the committee:
Jessica Jameson, Rod Troester, Elenie Opffer, and David Natharius. Bruce
McKinney volunteered to get a list-serve started through NCA so we can
begin raising funds.
Reviewers for 2006 Competitive Papers: Jessica Jameson
Jessica sent around a sheet asking for volunteer reviewers.
NCA Planner’s Meeting Report: Jessica Jameson
-NCA will do a scholar-to-scholar poster session next year
-fewer concurrent sessions are planned
-poster session will be centrally located and food will be provided to
encourage people to attend
-division chairs will be talking up the poster program
Voted:
Vice-chair for 2006 is Melody Hubbard
Secretary for 2006 is Ann Dodd
Legislative Representatives will continue to be Edith LeFebvre and Rod
Troester
Voted:
Tricia Jones announced that INCREEP, an international conflict resolution
educational group is trying to pull together people from throughout the
world who are interested in peace and conflict around the world. She would
like our division to be a partner. It was voted to partner with INCREEP.
Presentation: Susan Holton
Susan Holton made a special presentation to Jessica for her work as our
chair for two years.
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