STP Reports and Documents

STP maintains a repository of past reports and documents that are publicly available for research and review.  Click on the links below to view these materials.

• Executive Committee:  Agenda Books, Minutes, and Electronic Discussions
  
• Annual Business Meetings: Minutes and Shared Materials
• Presidential Initiatives and Task Forces (Preview the list of reports below)
• Working Group Reports (Preview the list of reports below)
• Reports from Division 2's Representatives to APA Council
  
• Bylaws and Bylaws Revisions (1977 to the present)
• Policies and Procedures Manuals (2010 to the present)
  Includes a folder that contains GSTA Policies and Procedures Manuals

Presidential Initiatives and Task Forces 

This link contains a repository of documents from Presidential Initiatives.  Each document contains one or more of the following:

• Description of the presidential initiative
• A record of the initial charge to the task force (if the president convened a task force)
• Updates on the initiative
• Report(s) from the task force
• Records of EC discussions and votes on the initiative/task force's recommendations
• Resources that resulted from the initiative or the work of the task force

Here is a list of the presidential initiatives that appear in the repository.

• 2019 President Rick Miller
  Diversifying Membership (Charge, Update, Report, EC Discussion)
  Mentoring Teachers and Civic Engagement Awards (Charge, Announcements during inaugural year)
  Promoting (Improving) Undergraduate Research (Charge, Update, Report: Cover Letter and Resource)
  SoTL: Evidence-Based Teaching (Charge, Update)
  STP Program Evaluation (Charge, Update)
  Teaching Tips Revised (Charge, Update)
  Two E-books (Charge)
  
  
• 2018 President Sue Frantz
  Re-Envisioning Introductory Psychology (Charge, Update)
  Promoting the Value of the Psychology Bachelor's Degree (Charge, Update)
  Restructuring the STP Graduate Student Teaching Association (Charge, Report, Vote)
  
  
• 2017 President Ken Keith
  Psychology in American Colleges and Universities:  The Nature of the Pipeline (Charge, Updates)
  
  
• 2016 President Janie Wilson
  International Outreach (Charge, Report, Updates, Vote)
  Teaching Psychology in the Community (Charge, Report, Update, Vote)
  
  
• 2015 President Suzie Baker
  Core Concepts for Introductory Psychology (Charge, Report, Update, Vote)
       (in collaboration with APA Division 1:  General Psychology)
  MCAT-related Teaching Resources (Charge, Update)
  
  
• 2014 President Eric Landrum
  National Advocacy for Psychology Undergraduates (Charge, Report)
  Skills Matter (Charge, Report)
  The Power of Story (Charge, E-book)

• 2013 President Victor Benassi
  Note from President Benassi (No task forces)
  
  
• 2012 President Norine Jalbert
  Documenting Department Benchmarks (Charge)
  Documenting Teaching Competencies (Charge, Report, Vote, Update)
  Statistical Literacy (Charge, Report, Vote, Update, Resource)
  
  
• 2011 President Regan Gurung
  Advancing Pedagogical Science (Charge)
  Empowering Teachers (Charge, Report, Vote; refer to 2012 Working Group on Mentoring)
  Model Teaching Competencies (Charge, Report, Votes; continued as 2012 Documenting Teaching Competencies)
  Strengthening Psychological Literacy
  
  
• 2010 President Dana Dunn
  Identifying Best Practices for Employing Part Time Teachers of Psychology (Charge, No report)
  Identifying Best Practices for Employing Undergraduate Teaching Assistants (Charge, Reports, EC Discussion)
  Integration of New STP Bylaws into Procedures Manual (Charge, Reports, EC Discussion, Vote)
  High School Teachers and the Blueprint Book/Project (Charge, Report, Vote)
  STP Media (Charge, Report, EC Discussion)
  Emerging Scientific Advances and the Teaching of Psychology (Charge, Report, EC Discussion)
  Exploring Interdivisional Connections with Divisions (Charge, Report, EC Discussion, Vote)
  STP Members as APS Fellows (Charge, Report, Vote)
  
  
• 2009 President Janet Carlson
  Targeted Membership Recruitment (Charge, Report)
  Member Involvement (Charge, Reports)
  Interdivisional Relationships (Charge, Report, Vote)
  Communication (Charge, Report, Vote)
  STP Awards (Charge, Report, Vote)
  Electronic Rules of Order (Charge, Report, incorporated into Policies & Procedures Manual)
  
  
• 2008 President Maureen McCarthy
  Unification (Charge, Report, Vote)
  Resources (Charge, Report, Vote)
  Restructuring (Charge, Report, Proposed Bylaws Revisions, Votes)
  

Working Group, Ad Hoc Committee, and Long Range Planning Committee Reports

This link contains the following reports from STP Working Groups, Ad Hoc Committees and the Long Range Planning Committee.

• 2017: Division 2's Responses to APA Ethics Committee 
  
• 2017: Front Porch Project: A Proposal to Benefit Psychology Administrators
• 2016: Ad Hoc Committee: Development of Consultant Training Program
• 2016: Ad Hoc Committee: Fund for Excellence Review (Charge, Reports, Votes)
• 2016: Ad Hoc Committee: STP Listservs (Vote, Charge, Report, EC Discussions and Updates)
• 2015: Working Group:  Social Media (Charge, Report, Proposal for committee, Vote)
• 2015: ACT-APA Subcommittee (EC Discussion, Charge, Report, Votes)
• 2014: Working Group: SoTL Consulting Service (Charge, Report, Vote, Announcement)
• 2011: Working Group: Mentoring (Charge, Report, Vote)
  
• 2011: Working Group: STP Archives (Charge, Report, Vote)
  
• 2010: Working Group: National Standards for High School Psychology (Inclusion in EC Agenda Book)
• 2009: Sharing STP Membership Lists:  Policies & Processes (Report, Vote)
• 2009: Working Group: Principles for Quality Undergraduate Education in Psychology (Charge, Report, Vote)
• 2008: Release Time/Course Buy-out Working Group (Request for data, Report, Vote)
• 2007: STP Membership Survey Executive Summary
• 1994-2009:  Long Range Planning Committee Reports:  LRPC Reports (1994-2009)