The scene is a familiar one: two graduate students, alike in most respects, but headed down divergent paths. Both students entered the Ph.D. program in political science at the same time with similar credentials and similar goals. While having coffee one day, the two reminisced about their graduate experiences and their respective futures. Graduate Student X was lamenting that after four full years in the Ph.D. program, he still hadn't reached the dissertation stage. Graduate Student Y, on the other hand, was in very good spirits—she had finished the dissertation and secured the job of her choice. What distinguishes these two very similar individuals who achieved very different results?

In January 2001, the APSA Nominating Committee designated Theda Skocpol as president-elect of APSA, making Skocpol only the third women ever to hold this office. In April of the same year, the APSA Council passed a nonbinding resolution encouraging future APSA Nominating Committees to avoid choosing presidents-elect of the same gender for more than two years in a row. In February 2002, the APSA Nominating Committee shattered tradition by selecting Susanne Rudolph as president-elect, thus promising the first instance of two women-given a normal course of events-consecutively assuming the APSA presidency. These actions hold tremendous value, both symbolic and substantive, in widening the cracks in the glass ceiling for female professional political scientists. In this article, I describe how many people, together, worked to break the glass ceiling. I then propose a program designed to increase gender equality within APSA as a professional association.

“It is no accident that the president's travels this year have followed the map of states that top the Bush target list for winning in 2004, particularly Florida and Pennsylvania. That also helps explain why his advisers sometimes seem more focused on electing Republican governors rather than members of Congress in states like Florida, Illinois, and Michigan: they could help him immensely in 2004.”Richard L. Berke, “Is What's Good for Bush Also Good for the G.O.P.?” New York Times, February 10, 2002, section 4, p. 5.

Although political campaigns have long been thought to have relatively minimal effects, recent literature suggests a more definitive role for campaigns in determining election outcomes. This articles contributes to this growing body of research by focusing on a campaign that is widely viewed (albeit in the absence of much empirical analysis) as having been decisive—the presidential campaign of 1948.

Are you married? Are you dating? What does your spouse do? One would think we learned years ago not to ask such questions of prospective job candidates. Nonetheless, several of our candidates on the job market in this interviewing season, both male and female, were asked precisely these questions—even the one about dating.

With the 2000 census showing very large increases in Latino urban populations, the issues of minority incorporation and interracial coalition are becoming more complicated than politics in black and white. Will Latino participation resemble the patterns of African Americans, in which minority mobilization relied in part on the support of ideological liberals? Or will the path taken by Latinos be qualitatively different from that of African Americans?

Activities, Administrative Appointments, New Appointments, Promotions, Visiting and Temporary Positions, Awards, Other Award Winners

APSA is pleased to recognize political science faculty who received campus-wide awards for teaching excellence during the 2001–02 academic year. APSA and Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, recognize award winning faculty each year by inviting

So here we are; you at the end of the course, me at the end of 34 years of teaching at UCSC and 20 years of teaching Political Freedom. This seems an appropriate enough occasion for us to reflect together on teaching and being taught.

Activities, Administrative Appointments, New Appointments, Promotions, Retirements, Visiting and Temporary Positions, Awards

Dante Germino, by George Klosko and Kenneth W. Thompson, University of Virginia

Joseph Pois, by Ed Kiely

Frank L. Wilson, by Rolf H.W. Theen, Purdue University

Although “the ties between women's rights movements and nonviolence have been deep and enduring,” women's movements are not the only movements to rely upon nonviolent collective action. The Indian nationalist movement with Gandhi innovated with passive resistance; the U.S. black civil rights movement employed nonviolent civil disobedience as its major collective action; and peace and environmental movements in the 1980s and 1990s have employed nonviolent tactics. The ties between women's movements and nonviolence, however, are notable insofar as nonviolent tactics predominate in the collective action repertoires of women's movements (Rucht forthcoming). Because nonviolent tactics prevail, they are more visibly connected to those movements.

Joseph Lepgold, by George Shambaugh and Victor Cha, Georgetown University

Erwin L. Levine, by Grace M. Burton and Ronald P. Seyb, Skidmore College

Michael P. Rogin, by Shannon Stimson and Paul Thomas, University of California, Berkeley

William Pierce Tucker, by Clarke E. Cochran, Texas Tech University

Richard A. Watson, by David M. Wood and Dean L. Yarwood, University of Missouri, Columbia

From PowerPoint presentations to web-based quizzes to entire classes taught online, technological changes have had a strong influence on pedagogical practices. The initial research into the pedagogical effectiveness of these emerging technologies suggests there are many ways in which they might be useful (Boschmann 1995; Hiltz 1994; Palloff and Pratt 2001). In this paper, we examine student participation on a structured online discussion group that spanned three universities and address two research questions: what explains student participation in online discussion groups and how effective are these groups as pedagogical tools? To address these topics, we draw upon our use of online discussions as a class assignment during the fall semester of 2000. First, we examine previous research and generate several expectations about student behavior and attitudes.

It is an honor to provide my first annual report as executive director of the American Political Science Association. The vital signs for APSA are healthy ones: membership at near record levels and growing; a vigorous agenda; new electronic services for members; and a positive financial status. Before recounting these details, and reviewing active and proposed initiatives on our agenda, however, I think it is useful to reflect about different aspects of the field, and about the place of APSA and of the national office in the larger world of political science.

There is still a controversy over adjusting the census because the statistical adjustment of the census did not work in 1990, nor did it work in 2000. The adjustment process, in both theory and practice, is complicated and flawed. The chance of it working in future censuses without major changes is small. Anderson and Fienberg continue to twist language and report partial results in order to confuse the debate.

The symposium presents the experiences of the political science faculty and doctoral students who led and participated in the Preparing Future Faculty Project, “Shaping the Preparation of Future Social Sciences and Humanities Faculty” through a grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies to the Council of Graduate Schools.

As I started working on the placement report, I asked myself—as well as many friends and colleagues—what do we want to know about the job market and why do we want to know it? I rapidly followed with the questions, “Are there enough data to answer these questions?” and “How can we have better data so that future answers will be better than what I can provide here?” But we'll come back to those last two questions at the end.

The Association's 2002 Nominating Committee convened at the national office on February 1 and 2 and agreed upon the following slate of officers and Council members. Members of the Association will have an opportunity to meet the nominees at a special gathering on Thursday, August 29, at 12:30 PM as part of the 2002 Annual Meeting in Boston. Elections will be held at the Business Meeting on Saturday, August 31 at 5:30 PM. The Annual Meeting Final Program will have the room location for each event.

We appear to agree with Brunell on four factual matters:

1. “Census 2000 is over; the debate over adjusting the census is not”.

2. The computer coding error in 1990 would not have erroneously shifted any congressional seats has adjusted data been used for reapportionment.

3. In March 2001, the Census Bureau announced that it was “unable to conclude … that the adjusted Census 2000 data are more accurate for redistricting.”

4. The Census Bureau has refused to release the adjusted 2000 census data.

Otherwise we find Brunell's arguments against census adjustment either distorted or confused.