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>>KURT GEISINGER: Hello. I'm Kurt Geisinger and let me begin by saying that it has been
one of the great honors of my career to serve APA these past eight years on the Council
of Representatives and the last two and a half years on the Board of Directors. APA
needs to be the umbrella organization for all psychologists. It is the only organization
that can fulfill that promise, and it needs to remain strong and vibrant. It must continue
to support and advocate for all of psychology.
APA governance needs to foster dialogue between members involved with one or more of the four
foci: science, practice, education and public interest to establish a greater sense of balance
and inter-connectedness. I have plans to increase this sense of connectedness. As Director of
the Buros Center for Testing, I engage in a unique and balanced blend of the four on
a daily basis.
I have described my interests in science, practice, education, public interest, diversity
and a few other dimensions on my website: kurt4apa.org. I am a professor of psychology
who has published six volumes, all with APA Books, with a seventh on the way as well as
the Mental Measurements Yearbooks. I have served 20 years as a psychology department
chair, a dean of arts and sciences and an academic vice president. I have built police,
fire and other tests for civil service municipalities and both defended tests and attacked them
in court as an expert witness, primarily on their basis on their impact on ethnic minorities
and individuals with disabilities. I was the project director of a court ordered study
that ultimately brought women onto the police force in Philadelphia. I have also served
on nearly a dozen APA committees and task forces, many related to diversity. Please
go to my website to review my priorities.
They include that we need to continue to find ways to involve ECP's and APAGS members into
the working of our association and to reclaim faculty members as members. We must maintain
our total commitment to diversity. Social justice should infuse all our activities.
We must represent psychologists effectively in discussions of our roles in health care.
And psychology must be recognized as a STEM science. Finally, we can't forget what is
happening internationally; good psychology is happening all over the world.
I am asking for your vote. Thank you for your kind attention and have a great day.