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and to a select list of undergraduate NOTICE: departments around the country. CHANGE IN CHILD CARE SERVICE Status: Done throughout the Fall and FOR 1990 ANNUAL MEETING completed by early December 1989. Sixteen institutions submitted The Association will sponsor a child care service at the San Francisco brochures. meeting from August 30 to September 2. This will be available at no charge to the children of registrants. 2. Each department would call a meeting in October or November of However, you must preregister your child for this service. Contact the Child Care Coordinator for details: APSA, 1527 New Hamp- minority undergraduates in their de- shire Ave., N.W., Washington, DC 20036. partments and would discuss the possibilities of going to graduate school. Departments would then col- lect the names of students who express interest and send those names James Q. Wilson to Deliver The selection committee was com- to APSA. We at APSA would then Madison Lecture posed of Dennis Thompson, Harvard redistribute the names to each of the University, chair; Donald F. Kettl, institutions as they themselves submit James Q. Wilson, University of University of Virginia; and Barbara their lists. No institution was to California, Los Angeles, has been Romzek, University of Kansas. receive the lists from the other awarded the James Madison Award, Previous Gaus Lecturers have schools until that institution had sub- and will present the Madison Lecture included Herbert Kaufman (1986), mitted its own list. Status: Done on Thursday, August 30 at 5:30 p.m. Dwight Waldo (1987), James Fesler throughout the Fall of 1989 and in the San Francisco Hilton as part (1988), and Aaron Wildavsky (1989). completed by late December 1989. of the 1990 Annual Meeting. Seventeen institutions sent in their The award is the Association's lists. Total number of students iden- highest accolade, given every three APSA Minority Programs tified: 144 minority undergraduates. years to a living American political Addressing the Pipeline Problem 3. There was a consensus at the scientist who has made a distin- breakfast meeting that any member guished scholarly contribution to Catherine £. Rudder of a traditionally disadvantaged political science. minority group (primarily meaning The selection committee was com- APSA now has in place five proj- Black, Hispanic and Native Ameri- posed of John Dilulio, Jr., Princeton ects designed to address the difficulty can) who was accepted into a gradu- University; Harvey Mansfield, Jr., colloquially called the "pipeline ate program of the participating Harvard University, chair; R. Shep problem." Essentially, we are doing schools could count on receiving the Melnick, Brandeis University; and everything we know to do to recruit substantial financial support neces- Catherine Zuckert, Carleton College. minorities into graduate school and sary to matriculate. Status: Not yet Previous Madison Award winners into the political science professori- assessed. were Robert Dahl in 1978, Gabriel ate. This is a report on the status of 4. Each department agreed to call Almond in 1981, Herbert Simon in those programs. this program to the attention of their 1984, and E. Pendleton Herring in faculty at a faculty meeting and 1987. Minority Identification Project would encourage department mem- bers who teach undergraduates to Professor Robert Keohane and I encourage individually promising stu- Frederick C. Mosher Named invited to a breakfast session at the dents (both minorities and others) to John Gaus Distinguished Annual Meeting in August 1989 the consider graduate study. Status: Not Lecturer chairs of 20 leading graduate depart- yet assessed. ments of political science. All but 5. Upon receiving the lists of the Frederick C. Mosher has been two of the invited institutions were other departments' interested minor- named the 1990 John Gaus Distin- represented at that 7:30 a.m. gather- ity undergraduates, each institution guished Lecturer. The award was ing. The purpose of that meeting was would aggressively recruit the stu- established by the Association, after to review current efforts to address dents whose names appeared on the a bequest from the estate of John the pipeline problem in political sci- lists. Status: This activity should be Gaus, to honor the recipient's life- ence and to create an additional, underway at the present time. time of exemplary scholarship in the complementary program. 6. In the spring, each department joint tradition of political science and The agreement that emerged from would hold two additional meetings, public administration and, more gen- that meeting included the following one with departmental faculty to erally, to recognize achievement and elements: encourage them to scout vigilantly encourage scholarship in public 1. Each department would send 50 for promising students and one with administration. brochures on their graduate pro- minority rising seniors to discuss the The Gaus Lecture will be delivered grams to APSA. We would then col- possibilities of graduate school and a at 5:30 p.m., Friday, August 31 at late the brochures and redistribute career in the professoriate. Status: the 1990 Annual Meeting. them to each of the 20 departments Not yet assessed.

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