AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

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December 16, 2005

CONTENTS FOR THIS EDITION:

1) EXTENDED: 2006 ASA STUDENT FORUM ADVISORY BOARD CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

2) REMINDER: 2006 ASA ANNUAL MEETING: CALL FOR STUDENT SESSION PROPOSALS

3) REMINDER: 2006 ASA ANNUAL MEETING: CALL FOR STUDENT PAPERS

4) W.E.B. DuBois CAREER OF DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

5) JOIN THE ASA STUDENT FORUM DISCUSSION BOARD

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The deadline for submitting your candidacy to the ASA Student Forum Advisory Board has been extended until JANUARY 15, 2006.

The ASA Student Forum Advisory Board is seeking nominations for three (3) Graduate Student Board members and one (1) Undergraduate Student Board member. The term of commitment is two years beginning at the end of the 2006 ASA Annual Meeting in Montreal, CANADA in August and continuing through the 2008 Annual Meeting. Nominees must be Student Members of the ASA at the time of nomination and during their two-year term. They also should commit to attending the 2006, 2007, and 2008 Annual Meetings. Self-nominations are welcomed. The nominations sub-committee of the Student Forum Advisory Board will review nominations and oversee selection of candidates for the 2006 ASA Spring Election.  Please send please send four (4) copies of your vitae including a current e-mail address, four (4) copies of a brief statement of intent (please indicate any web skills you may have), and four (4) copies of recommendation from an advisor in one sealed envelope (optional) before JANUARY 15, 2006 to:

Governance Coordinator

American Sociological Association

1307 New York Avenue NW, Suite 700

Washington D.C. 20005

E-mail: governance@asanet.gov

If you have any further questions please contact Andrea Miller at andrea.miller@american.edu

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2) REMINDER: 2006 ASA ANNUAL MEETING: CALL FOR STUDENT SESSION PROPOSALS

Each year the Student Forum Advisory Board (SFAB) solicits proposals from the student membership of the ASA for paper sessions, roundtables, invited panels, and workshops. The SFAB is currently soliciting suggestions for session topics and organizers for the 2006 ASA Annual meeting in Montreal, Canada.

Proposals for paper sessions and roundtables should be focused within a substantive area of the discipline (see ASA list of sections for examples), but not so narrowly defined that student participation or interest is limited. We also encourage proposals that are developed to meet the specific needs and interests of ASA student-members. Past proposal topics have addressed needs such as preparing for the job market, strategies for first time teachers, and research ethics.

To have your session proposal considered for sponsorship by the SFAB, it must be submitted to the SFAB by January 6, 2006.

If you are a current student member of the ASA and are interested in submitting a student session proposal for the 2006 ASA Annual Meeting, please follow the guidelines below.

·      Select a working title for the proposed session

·      Provide a brief description of the substantive area focus

·      Provide a Rationale Statement explaining why your proposed session should be included in the 2006 program

·      Provide a Rationale Statement explaining why the SFAB should sponsor your proposed session

·      Designate whether your proposed session is to be OPEN to all willing participants (i.e. Student Paper Session or Roundtables) or BY-INVITATION-ONLY* (limited by thematic, special session, or seminar or workshop focus)

·      Include the name, address, telephone number, email, and affiliation of the organizer(s)

*Note: By-invitation-only proposals must include a list of potential participants; and since it is customary, but not mandatory, for you to organize the session you propose, please state whether or not you are willing and able to organize your proposed session.

Proposals should be

·      Typed

·      No longer than two double-spaced pages long

·      Formatted as Word  or PDF documents and sent via email (preferred)

(submissions by United States Postal Service must include three (3) copies and be postmarked no later than December 19, 2005)

 Please submit email submissions to: Delores A. Forbes-Edelen at dedelen@mail.ucf.edu. Mail USPS submissions to:

Delores A. Forbes-Edelen

University of Central Florida

Department of Sociology & Anthropology

PO BOX 4000

Orlando, FL 32816

3) REMINDER: 2006 ASA ANNUAL MEETING: CALL FOR STUDENT PAPERS

2006 CALL FOR PAPERS: STUDENT SESSIONS

The American Sociological Association welcomes the participation of graduate and undergraduate students at the 2006 Annual Meeting in Montreal, CANADA. Special arrangements for students include discounted registration fees, special housing blocks, sessions co-sponsored by the ASA Student Forum and the ASA Honors Program, and space at the meeting site for an informal Student Center.

This Call for Papers is open to submissions from students.

Three paper sessions and a roundtable session co-sponsored by the Student Forum and the Honors Program are organized by student members and are thus listed as "Student Sessions." Interested student authors should note that student sessions operate under the same guidelines as regular sessions and are subject to the submission criteria, deadlines, and program policies listed in the ASA Call for Papers.

For the 2006 Annual Meeting, the Student Forum Advisory Board is calling for papers to fill three (3) Student Paper Sessions and one (1) Student Roundtable Session.  All sessions will be open and sessions will be based on any themes that emerge from the more developed student submissions. Student papers not included in one of the above three Student Paper Sessions will be considered for inclusion in the Student Roundtable Session.  

To submit a paper to the Student Sessions, please go to the ASA homepage for the 2006 AnnualMeeting: http://www.asanet.org/page.wwsection=Meetings&name=2006+Call+for+Papers

Papers must be submitted by Jan 18th 2006.

Questions about the Student Sessions should be directed to Delores Forbes-Edelen at dedelen@mail.ucf.edu

4) W.E.B. DuBois CAREER OF DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARSHIP AWARD

We wanted to inform you about a petition that many members of ASA are talking about right now.  There is a proposal to name the Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, the highest award given by the association, after W.E.B. DuBois.  You can read more about the petition and how to add your name to it below.  Students make up 30% of the ASA membership, so we are an important voting block within the association.  Be sure to consider the proposal carefully.

The proposal to name the ASA Career of Distinguished Scholarship award after W.E.B. Du Bois has already gained a great deal of support. Our list of endorsers now exceeds 100 people, including 14 ASA presidents,11 members of the current ASA Council, and four of the most recent winners of the Distinguished Career of Scholarship Award. (To see the full list, click on the list of endorsers or see below.)We are now ready to make a formal petition to the ASA Council to consider and include on the spring ballot. In order to get this proposal accepted, we need to collect the electronic endorsement of at least 3% of the ASA membership, so we are going to need you to endorse the petition a second time, following the procedure below. We need to get our signatures by December 31, so please do this soon and also forward this appeal to everyone you know (including listserves) who might be interested.

The formal proposal is:

We propose that the American Sociological Association (ASA) Distinguished Career of Scholarship Award be renamed the W.E.B. DuBois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award and that the existing ASA Du Bois-Johnson-Frazier Award be renamed the Cox- Johnson-Frazier Award.

In order for your signature to count we must receive an email from you containing the text of the resolution (above) and the following statement:

I, [your name], a voting member of the American Sociological Association, support the proposal to change the name of the current ASA Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award to the W. E. B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award, and the name of the current ASA Du Bois-Johnson-Frazier Award to the Cox-Johnson-Frazier Award.

Address[the address you gave the ASA]:

City:

State and Zip:

Date:

THE EASIEST WAY TO SIGN IS TO FORWARD THIS EMAIL TO ALDON MORRIS (amorris@northwestern.edu), FOLLOWING THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW

DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS

1. Insert YOUR NAME, ADDRESS and DATE in the appropriate spaces above.

2. Name and address must be the same as you give the ASA

3. Send to Aldon Morris: amorris@northwestern.edu

4. You must be a voting member of ASA

5. You must provide a date.

We need valid signatures from at least 3% of the ASA membership by December 31 in order to insure that this proposal will be on the Spring ASA ballot. We are hoping for 1000, both to guarantee against imperfect signatures and as an expression of strong support for the proposal. For a full list of supporters to date, click on the list of endorsers (or see below)

WE ASK YOU TO SIGN THE PETITION AND ALSO FORWARD IT TO COLLEAGUES (INDIVIDUALS AND ON LISTSERVES) WHOM YOU THINK MIGHT SUPPORT THE PROPOSAL).

Here is a short statement in support of the name change. (To view a detailed argument for why this change is appropriate, please see below).

Over a long career W.E.B. Du Bois, one of the founders of American sociology, established an impressive intellectual record of multidimensional scholarly achievements. He was extremely prolific. The high quality of his work is evidenced by the fact that Du Bois continues to be one of the most cited sociologists today. Du Bois was also the consummate public intellectual. He fought for the rights of people of color, not just in the United States, but also around the world. He fought for women's rights, worker's rights, Jewish freedom, a peaceful world without nuclear weapons, and for human dignity and democracy across the globe.

The ASA already recognizes the outstanding achievements of Charles Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier with the award bearing their names. Oliver Cox's stature as a pioneering Black sociologist is commensurate with theirs, and we therefore propose that the ASA Du Bois-Johnson-Frazier Award be renamed the Cox- Johnson-Frazier Award.

A list of endorsers of this proposal can be found online by clicking on the list of endorsers or by going to the following internet address: http://edit.store.yahoo.com/lib/audiobook1/ListOfEndorsers.doc

A more detailed argument for the Du Bois Award can be found online by clicking on the "Proposal to name the ASA Career of Distinguished Scholarship after W. E. B. Du Bois" or by going to the following internet address: http://edit.store.yahoo.com/lib/audiobook1/DuBoisAwardProposal.pdf

PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS DOCUMENT TO ALL ASA MEMBERS WHO MIGHT BEINTERESTED. WE THANK YOU.

Aldon Morris

Michael Schwartz

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5) JOIN THE ASA STUDENT FORUM DISCUSSION BOARD!

Check out our ongoing discussion groups for information on a variety of topics.  The discussion group is thriving and we hope that you will take a few minutes to click on the link below in order to join:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASA-Student-Forum-Discussion/join

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