The Affiliate Council is delighted to announce a new Travel Grant Award Program for candidates who have never attended an APsaA national meeting. The program is designed to encourage candidate participation and involvement in APsaA.
The Travel Grant Program, created by Richard Grossberg, the Affiliate Council treasurer, will allow Affiliate members who have never attended an APsaA national meeting to do so. To apply for the travel grant, candidates must be Affiliate members of APsaA. Applications for Affiliate membership are available online at apsa.org.
APsaA will provide $250 to one Affiliate member from each of the 31 institutes provided that the local institute match the Affiliate Council's grant. Awardees will be selected by their own institutes. It will be left to the local institute to determine if the matching grant is made on the basis of need, merit, or even a lottery. The awardees will be required to attend the Affiliate Council meeting during the APsaA national meeting in order to share with the larger body information from their local institutes as well as to take back to their local institutes information from the national level. Additionally, this will guarantee that the Affiliate Council meeting will have representation from all institutes.
Early this fall, Grossberg will be sending all institute administrators and directors a request for enrollment in the program in addition to specific information about the Travel Grant Program. Travel grants will be available for the 2010 National Meeting in New York as well as the APsaA Annual Meeting in June 2010 in Washington, DC. We hope that all institutes will participate in the Affiliate Council's new Travel Grant Program. For more information, please contact Richard Grossberg at richard.grossberg@hattielarlham.org.
Carmela Perez, Ph.D., is president of the Affiliate Council.