Awards Chair

Name of Position: Awards Committee Chair
Term of appointment: The Awards Committee Chair is appointed  for a term of three (3) years. The Awards Chair can be re-apointed for another (3) year term. 

Tasks of the Awards Chair

  • Manage the award process for Division 52 annual awards
    • Chair the Awards Committee
    • Review award postings on the Division 52 web and request updates/edits
    • Review the Division 52 award listings on the APA web and request updates/edits
    • Identify chairs for award subcommittees for each Division 52 award except the Outstanding International Psychologist Awards (whose chair is the Past President)
    • Disseminate calls for award nominees through the Division listserv; coordinate with award subcommittee chairs to disseminate calls for “their” award to appropriate constituencies
    • Distribute online award nominations packets to each award subcommittee chair and set deadlines for nominations review and reports
    • Collate award selections and request Board ratification
    • Manage notification process of award recipients
    • Disseminate information about award recipients to
      • Division listserv
      • Division webmaster (photo, name, institution)
    • Arrange for Awards Ceremony at convention (work with President, Secretary, and Convention chairs)
    • Provide award recipient information to D52 Secretary to order award medallions and certificates

Awards Committee

The awards committee consists of the Awards Chair and the chairs of each award sub-comittee.

The Award sub-committees present their nominations to the Awards Committee. The Awards Committee submits all award recommendations to the voting Board of Directors of the Division for final approval. The bestowing of any such award by the Board of Directors shall require an affirmative vote of two-thirds (2/3) of Board Members present and voting.

Division 52 Awards Overview

Awards Overview (summary of awards, monetary award if any, membership benefits, if any)

Division 52 Awards

Awards Overview (summary of awards, monetary award if any, membership benefits, if any)

Award sub-committees present their nominations to the Awards Committee.. The Awards Committee submits all award recommendations to the voting Board of Directors of the Division for final approval. The bestowing of any such award by the Board of Directors shall require an affirmative vote of two-thirds (2/3) of Board Members present and voting.

Timeline

January

  • Set up schedule of regular calls for nominations for the awards to send to the Div52 listserv
  • consult with award sub-committee chairs for them to set up schedule to publicize the awards for which they are responsible – for example Henry David mentoring award to Division 2 and APAGS listserv; Denmark-Reuder award to Div52 ICFW, Division 35, Committee on Women in Psychology; ECP award to other ECP groups; Rubin Flores award to Global Network of Psychologists for Human Rights, etc. etc.)

February

  • Confirm that all award subcommittee chairs have formed their own review committees (encourage involvement of broad group of D52 members – it’s an easy entry point into service for D52)
  • Review deadlines. In the past deadlines have been April 15 and then sometimes extended.

March

  • Send listserv messages to promote award nominations. Send reminder to Sub-committee chairs to do the same.

April

  • Check with webmaster on number of nominations for each award at least two weeks prior to the first nominations deadline

After deadline:

  • Receive all award nominations materials from webmaster (or download it yourself if you have taken instruction on how to do so).
  • Distribute award nominations materials to award sub-committee chairs.
  • Give award subcommittee chairs a deadline to make their recommendation decisions

May

  • Receive recommendations from award subcommittee chairs (can ask for choice and 1st alternate) in the following form:
    • Name of nominee
    • institution
    • country
    • email
    • reasons for choice

June

  • Compile list of proposed recipients for all awards. Send this list to the ELECTED (not extended) Board for their review and vote. If the vote is electronic it requires ALL board members to vote; if the vote is via zoom or in person it requires two/thirds majority. (see sample emails)

After Board has approved award selections

  • Communicate with award winners and nominees with consistent D52 letter (see sample)
    • Inform them they have won the award
    • Inform them there will be an awards ceremony in the Division 52 Suite and invite them to attend in person or virtually
    • Request materials for posting awards on the web: 150 word bios, head shot, name, institution, country and have them send this to you with cc to webmaster
  • Communicate with webmaster on materials to expect
  • Communicate with Secretary to order awards recognition: medals and certificates.
  • Be sure to specifically invite awardees AND their nominators to the awards ceremony
  • Communicate with convention suite chairs to reserve time for awards ceremony

July

  • Plan awards ceremony (coordinate with Secretary and President)
  • Publicize awards ceremony on the Division listserv

August

  • Attend awards ceremony at convention.
  • Present awards (along with president)
    • Ask award sub-committee chairs to attend ceremony to be able to present awards (if they are not present, Awards Chair does the presentation)

September

  • Review award materials on the D52 web and set deadlines for the next year
    • Be sure new awardees are listed for each award under “past award recipients”
  • Write report to Board on awards process (number of nominees; outcomes; suggestions for improvement)
  • Review APA web listing of awards and make corrections if necessary (https://www.apa.org/about/awards, search with term “international”; check to see that all D52 awards are listed and that listings are accurate

October

  • Confirm chairs for each of the Award Sub-Committees except the Outstanding International Psychologist Award. For this award (the Past President is Chair)
  • If new chairs needed, confer with President on appointments (the President appoints)

November

  • Develop and send listserv note encouraging award nominations

December

  • Develop and send listserv note encouraging award nominations

Sample Documents

  • Call for Award nominations (to be sent to listservs)
  • Letters to awardees; Letters to nominators
  • Memo to Board for approval