2009 Business Meeting Minutes and Resolutions

 

(Note: The following minutes will not be officially approved until the 2010 Business Meeting).

Minutes, PES Business Meeting, Sunday March 22, 2009, Montreal

5:15 Call to order by President, David Hansen

Approval of 2008 minutes

-Ron Glass moved approval. Cris Mayo second. Passed unanimously.

President’s Report: David Hansen

It has been a great honor to serve as President of the Philosophy of Education Society.  I have been deeply impressed by the passion and commitment colleagues bring to their concerns.  I have been equally impressed by the generosity of so many in giving freely of their time on committees, in consulting and providing input, and much more.  Our Society is clearly something more than merely a sum of its parts.  Those parts, i.e. you and I as members, initiate everything.  But the result is an ethos of engagement, of inquiry, of spirited agreement and disagreement, and of communication.

The year has been very productive as mirrored in our superb program organized by Debby Kerdeman, whom I would like to thank again for her outstanding leadership.  Our site has worked out well, and here I’d like to thank Kevin McDonough, our Hospitality Chair, who started the ball rolling almost two years ago and has invested tremendous time and good will in finalizing our contract with the hotel and many related matters.  He and his colleagues and students from McGill University, as well as his hospitality committee members, have all helped make us feel welcome.  I’d also like to thank Jeff Milligan, our hard-working Executive Director, for all that he has done to facilitate things this year.  In the most literal sense of the terms, our 65th annual conference held here in Montreal would have been impossible without the efforts of Debby, Kevin, their respective committees, and Jeff.

We have received significant external financial support for this year’s conference from a number of generous sponsors whom I would like to thank publicly:

Boston Research Center for the 21st Century
Democratic Dialogue, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Education
McGill University, Faculty of Education
Teachers College, Columbia University
CREUM (Centre de Recherce en Éthique de l’Université de Montréal/
Centre for Research on Ethics at the University of Montreal)
College of Education, University of Washington, Seattle

Finally, I want to thank those colleagues who contributed their time and energy to two inquiries we undertook this year, into the “public face” of the Society and into our web site.  We learned the results of their work at a special session this past Friday – and these results will be posted on our web site – and one upshot I’m sure will be a range of ongoing conversations and actions by Society members.  On behalf of the Society, my sincere thanks to Bob Floden, Craig Cunningham, and the many colleagues who worked with them.

Executive Director’s Report: Jeff Milligan
           
Jeff Milligan reported that the economic downturn has apparently had a significant impact on PES membership and finances. As of March 19, 2009 current (2008-2009) membership stood at 327 members, down from 491 last year.

Jeff reported that financial crisis over the past year has had a significant impact on the Society’s investments. The Kneller Lecture fund is down approximately 33% from last year and the Legacy Fund is down approximately 19%. The Operational Fund fluctuates depending on payments due at any one point in time; however, the portion of that account which is invested has seen similar declines.

Fund

April 2006

March 2007

April 2008

March 2009

Kneller

$77,353

$80,811

$84,425

$56,364

Legacy

$21,079

$21,059

$21,614

$17,576

Operational

$48,063

$53,704

$73,903

$61,958

127 individuals pre-registered for the conference. 50 registered on site, for a total conference attendance of 177. While this was down slightly from last year’s 200+ attendance, he expressed satisfaction with the level of conference attendance this year.

Call for Reports from Committee Chairs

Program Committee

-Debby Kerdeman reported 82 paper submissions. 30 were selected for the programs: 27 concurrent paper sessions and 3 general sessions. 41 alternative session proposals were submitted with approximately half included in the program. Debby reported that the success of the program would have been possible without the extraordinary people who served on the program committee. Authors acknowledged that they received great feedback from the committee members. Debby thanked specifically Chris Higgins, Barbara Applebaum, and Ann Chinnery. She also offered her thanks to Joyce Atkinson and Jeff Thibert for their assistance in negotiating the OJS system. Debby stressed that we are a society which is only as strong as the people in it. Debby thanked previous program chairs Barbara Stengel and Dan Vokey for their assistance. Debby turned over the office of program chair to Gert Biesta and thanked Jeff Milligan and David Hansen for their support throughout the entire year. Finally, she offered her thanks to all who submitted papers and acknowledged Dave Waddington’s initiative in planning the Weinstein session. She announced that the yearbook would be out in spring 2010.

Hospitality Committee

-David thanked the members of the hospitality committee on behalf of Kevin McDonough, who could not be present: Megan Boler, Scott Johnston, Bruce Maxwell, Walter Okshevsky, Daniel Vokey, David Waddington and Joel Westheimer.

Report on Educational Theory/Yearbook: Nick Burbules

Educational Theory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Review Analysis

2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      Conditional

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

          Accept

 

          Accept

 

          Reject

 

          Total

 

Status

Number

Percent

 

Number

Percent

 

Number

Percent

 

Number

Percent

 

Pending

0

0.00%

 

0

0.00%

 

0

0.00%

 

16

14.55%

 

Reviewed

18

16.36%

 

10

9.09%

 

55

50.00%

 

83

75.45%

 

Not Reviewed

0

0.00%

 

0

0.00%

 

10

9.09%

 

10

9.09%

 

Withdrawn

0

0.00%

 

1

0.91%

 

0

0.00%

 

1

0.91%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   Totals

18

16.36%

 

11

10.00%

 

65

59.09%

 

110

100.00%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average Time to Decision: 56 days

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Educational Theory

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Review Analysis

2007

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      Conditional

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

          Accept

 

          Accept

 

          Reject

 

          Total

 

Status

Number

Percent

 

Number

Percent

 

Number

Percent

 

Number

Percent

 

Pending

0

0.00%

 

0

0.00%

 

0

0.00%

 

0

0.00%

 

Reviewed

15

17.05%

 

9

10.23%

 

38

43.18%

 

62

70.45%

 

Not Reviewed

0

0.00%

 

0

0.00%

 

26

29.55%

 

26

29.55%

 

Withdrawn

0

0.00%

 

0

0.00%

 

0

0.00%

 

0

0.00%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                   Totals

15

17.05%

 

9

10.23%

 

64

72.73%

 

88

100.00%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Average Time to Decision: 76 days

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION SOCIETY

 

 

 

 

 

                 ACCOUNT SUMMARY

 

 

 

 

 

 

        JANUARY - DECEMBER 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Account Balance as of January 1, 2008

 

$2,506.05

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Expenses

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salary $1551.78/mo x 3 mos

 $      5,113.86

w/ benefits

 

 

 

 

 

Postage

 

 $         504.69

 

 

 

 

 

 

Office Expenses

 $            4.40

copy charges

 

 

 

 

 

Total Expenses

 $      5,622.95

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Income

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Received payments for PES

$6,614.40

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Account balance as of December 31, 2008

 

$3,477.91

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Revenue to Executive Director for the 2008 issue

 

$5,256.00

 

 

 

There are currently 10 Pending Invoices for a total of $410.50.

 

 

 

 

 

(As of March 2008; note that the revenue figure may not reflect all payments made directly to Executive Director.)

FYI: 3 libraries canceled Yearbook orders this year, citing budget cuts; otherwise, 2008 orders have remained stable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2008 Yearbook Total Expenses through March 2009

 

 

 

 

859 copies at 456 pp each, Cushing-Malloy printing

 

 $    6,340.44

 

 

 

Packaging/handling for copies shipped direct from Printer

 $       722.50

 

 

 

Shipping (of books only, both by Cushing-Malloy and through UIUC)

 $    2,802.69

 

 

 

Summer Graduate Assistantship

 

 

 $    5,114.40

 

 

 

Joyce Atkinson  100 hours @ $20.00/hr

 

 $    2,000.00

 

 

 

TOTAL (printing, shipping, and labor)

 

 $  16,980.03

 

 

 

Approximate per book cost

 

 

 $        19.77

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Comparison of Printing/Shipping/Labor Costs

 

 

 

 

Less Approx. Library Revenues for 2006, 2007, and 2008 Yearbooks

 

 

 

 

 

 

2006

2007

2008

 

 

 

GA Salary

 

 $      5,023.74

 $    4,966.17

 $    5,114.40

 

 

 

Project Management

 $      2,000.00

 $    2,160.00

 $    2,000.00

 

 

 

Printing & Packaging

 $      6,713.85

 $    7,559.48

 $    7,062.94

 

 

 

Postage & C-M mailing

 $      2,843.45

 $    2,523.75

 $    2,853.29

 

 

 

Revenue to PES (Executive Director)

 $     (5,350.00)

 $   (5,598.40)

 $   (5,256.00)

 

 

 

Office Expenses

 

 $                -  

 $        41.24

 $          4.40

 

 

 

 

 

Totals

 $    11,231.04

 $  11,652.24

 $  11,779.03

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Nick: We are looking for ways to bring revenue back into the field. The summer institute, which is happening in June will result in a fifth issue of the journal. The topic will be public policy and parenting. There were lots of good proposals. I hope people will continue to submit proposals for the summer institute. Nick noted that  sales don’t cover the printing and mailing of the yearbook. The society subsidizes it at approximately $11,000 a year.

COPA

-Ron Glass announced that COPA is awaiting the election of a new member. He thanked members of the committee: Hee Soon Bai, John Covaleskie, Ron Glass, Natasha Levinson and Claudia Ruitenberg. They have had very good discussions on a number of concrete things to do to improve the use of the website and connect to the world outside PES in better ways, such as identifying themes in previous issues like race, etc. and linking the website to the websites of individual members. COPA will do its best to link up with the public face of PES task force and follow through on its recommendations. He encouraged interest in serving on COPA and solicited volunteers to stand for election.

-David apologized for not having election for COPA and Executive Board member in February is usual. He thanked Natasha Levinson for her service on COPA and Kathy Hytten for her service on the executive board. Both going off the committees. He announced that elections for both vacancies should take place in the next six weeks.

Committee on the Status of Women

-Megan Laverty reported that the COSW sponsored an alternative session, with an international panel of five female members, on topics of gender, sexuality and feminist theory. Sixteen attended, including men and women. It was a very lively and enjoyable session. COSW hopes to plan another  panel next year. She will talk to Audrey abut two new members

Membership Committee

-Paul Smeyers called members’ attention to the activities of the membership committee outlined on pg. 3 of last year’s minutes. He expressed his satisfaction that the conference discount for members seems to have worked in promoting membership. He expressed his disappointment in the lower membership numbers as reported by Jeff Milligan but noted that there seemed to be fewer incentives for membership since Educational Theory is available on line. The only advantages seemed to be hard copies of the Yearbook and Educational theory and a small break in the conference registration.

-Nick noted that some societies require membership to be on the program.

A question from the floor asked for clarification as to whether one must be a member in order to submit a paper. The answer was no.

-Debby reported that she made a moral argument to anybody on the program that they should become a member.

-Ron reported that he gave his best Stalinist impression and required them to join

-David: Paul Taylor is joining

-Nick: Perhaps we should have a standing policy. If you want to be on the program, you should be a member. The society subsidizes the yearbook. It shouldn’t be dependent on individual program chairs.

-Ron Glass moved that anyone who presents a paper, responds to a paper, or chairs a session is required to be a member.

-Denis Phillips seconded.

-Barbara Applebaum suggests that the first year be free for new graduate students.

-Andrea Boyea: Other invited speakers should not be required to be members. Invited guests shouldn’t be required to be members.

-Len Waks expressed disagreement with Barbara’s suggestion. Other societies require membership to even propose. This doesn’t build the commitment to the association.

-David: How about $15 for the first year?
 
-Dan Vokey: Just to clarify, we are talking about being a member to be on the program, but not submit, right?

-Paul Smeyers: The Australasian PES and INPE don’t have requirement.

-Sasha Sidorkin: There is not a mechanism to track this.

-David: Membership is indexed to income as it stands. We could adjust the index for those in dire straits but it would be difficult administratively.

-Kathy Hytten: Unless we’re willing to have consequences, it’s symbolic more than anything. We don’t take anybody off in AESA

-Nick: If we remind people they are going to write a check.

-Len Waks: One last comment. In SAP, if you’re not a member you can’t propose a paper. I see nothing wrong with demanding membership.

-Nick: There would be a lot of little logistical things. When papers are first accepted someone should do a scan. We need to insert this review at an earlier point.

-Denise Egéa-Kuehne: It is better to block the paper when it comes in than after the review.

-Nick: That’s a different proposal, a stronger proposal.

-Andrea Boyea: This society has been hospitable to grad students. I have reservations about requiring grad students to be a member. Some grad students simply don’t have the money. I would like to see the organization continue its hospitality and outreach to grad students. You don’t get this in other societies.

-Ron Glass moved. Seconded. Motion to require all those other than invited guests on the program to be members of the society. Grad students can be member for $15 in the first year if they are on the program. Two abstentions. Motion carried.

Jobs for Philosophers of Education Committee

-Kurt Stemhagen thanked graduate students for attending the meeting. He reported that the committee experimented with a WIKI, but it didn’t seem to work. They are not sure about committee membership next year. Reported that it is better not to schedule early morning meetings in order to attract graduate students.

Old Business.

Yearbook

-Paul Smeyers called members’ attention to pg. 4 last year’s business meeting minutes regarding the status of the yearbook. He identified three problems concerning the yearbook: accessibility, cost, and credibility. He reported than an extensive e-mail discussion has taken place on the topic for the last year. He reported that his committee concluded that cost is an issue, but even if cost were not an issue accessibility would be.
He stated we need to get away from the printed book. But for credibility we need PDF files to make it look like a journal. His committee has proposed that we shift from the hard copy to an online publication only within 3-5 years. OJS will publish the papers, etc. on line. Both papers and responses will be published in a fashion that is equivalent to the publication quality of journals. A clear statement describing the review process and the work of editors and contributing editors will be included in the publication. Basically in three years we will have moved to an online OJS publication that looks like the present yearbook.

-Claudia Ruitenberg: In order to reduce production costs it is important that we get used to taking more responsibility for formatting the papers ourselves. There will still be copy editing and current quality, but luddites and technophobes need to get over it.

-David: The Executive Board approved these changes. The transition period was an important factor in the board’s decision. During the transition we’ll be thinking about paper and cover, alternative sessions, a possible new name, and authors doing formatting work. This was a two year project led by Paul, Claudia and Nakia. These colleagues did a lot of work. Credit goes to Michael Katz for getting this started and to Nick, Mr. Yearbook.

-Nick: Now that this decision is made we will update the yearbook website. We will update and eventually the website will have everything back to 1967. Now there is the issue of what it is called . We changed from “proceedings” to “yearbook.” But yearbook has never been the official name. It is a serial not a book. As we go to OJS it is more accurate to refer to it as a refereed journal. We have to speak of this ourselves and in promotion and tenure committees.

-Debby: There is a tension between authors, who want to call it a refereed journal, and the program chair, who wants to report it as the editing of a book. Editor of a special issue is not quite the same as editor of a referred book. As we move into this we have to be aware of how this effects not only authors but the editor as well.

-Nick: Perhaps the name can balance both.

New Business

Proposed Committee on Race and Ethnicity

-Cris Mayo read the proposal and reported that 60 members have endorsed it online and 20 attended the meeting during this year’s conference.

-Audrey reported that there was lots of interest and discussion at this morning’s meeting.

-Barb Stengel inquired as to the requirements for amending the bylaws.

-Jeff Milligan read the appropriate section of the Constitution, which indicates that a committee can be established by a majority vote of those attending the business meeting.

-Cris May moved and Audrey Thompson and Ron Glass seconded the motion to create a new Committee on the Status of Race and Ethnicity. Motion carried unanimously.
 
Publishing Relationship Between PES and Educational Theory
-Nick reviewed the discussion of the publishing relationship between PES and ET. He noted that this was one of the recommendations of the session on the public face of PES. The larger purpose is to give the society and field a higher profile in educational policy and practice. The fifth issue will begin in 2009. The sixth will begin next year. The proposal is that early in the process a theme will be identified by the president and program chair and the editor of Educational Theory in a collaborative process to identify a mutually agreeable theme. The theme will be communicated early on to members, who will be invited, but not required, to write on the theme. In the course of the normal review process, some of the papers would end up on program. This is an option only, not a theme for the conference as a whole. Six or seven papers would be enough for the sixth issue. The papers would be published in the yearbook in accordance with current practice, but they could then be expanded and revised for publication in Educational Theory. Papers could be shared among authors for revision before going through the normal Ed Theory review. Responses could be selected for development as full fledged paper. Published papers would be significantly lengthened and revised. They would be likely to appear a year after the conference. Nick’s proposal to the executive board is that we work out a written agreement of reciprocal commitments between the journal and society for a five year trial period. Nick thinks it’s important to turn the society’s gaze outward and use the conference to communicate with communities outside the society. The proposal has been endorsed by the public face committee and received a positive response in the committee’s session..

-David: Let me summarize the board’s posture. We are grateful to Nick for proposing this idea. We had an extensive online discussion as well as a long discussion at the Thursday board meeting. We discussed the proposal’s positives. We thoroughly discussed down sides as well, such as the pressure on program chairs, the effect on the cultural ethos of the society? We had a rich and honest discussion. In the end the positives are very attractive. We believe it is positive for the society and the field and have thus agreed to move forward with a 3-5 year experimental phase. We will move on to a written agreement that spells out all the strong things it could do for the society. We tried very hard to see the pros and cons of this.

-David invited other board members to elaborate on his comments as necessary.

-Michael Katz: This is one subset  of a larger planning concern to structure other opportunities to connect with the policy world and politics in a world where philosophy of education is marginalized in education and the broader world. This is an experimental step. Structurally, we have a society that just does a meeting. If we want to make a serious stance to make the society more visible, we have to do more. The Society should think seriously about restructuring the existing system to do more than just have a conference. We have no structure to do any more than just have a meeting each year.

-Denis Phillips: I said some rash things that I actually meant the other night. I support the idea of a sixth issue, but why does it have to be linked to the conference? It’s one thing to write a conference paper and another to write a substantive paper for a journal. (Discussion of the difficulty of shifting from a conference paper to a journal paper, including a suggestion of writing the journal paper first and then selecting the best for the conference).

-David: Thanks for that.

-Sean: I was involved with an organization that tried this theme thing. It’s taken them ten years to recover because the selection of the theme was so controversial

-David: We’ve thoroughly discussed this for two years.

-Craig: The website subcommittee encourages society members to use the Ning. It’s a social networking tool for providing for conversation and interconnection between members. Jeff has agreed to our participation in refreshing the website. We welcome participation and input.

-Denis: What is the status of the discussion of the 6th issue. When did it take place and where?

-David: We discussed it last year at the business meeting and at this year’s Executive Board meeting.

-Kathy Hytten: It is reported at the bottom of page 2 of last year’s minutes.

Resolutions: David Blacker

The Resolutions Committee is Charles Bingham, David Blacker (Chair), Laura DeSisto, Barb Stengel

The Committee proposes to the Society the following resolutions:
Be it resolved that whereas, in the fiscal innocence of 2008, the exuberant and playful tone struck by last year’s Resolutions Committee was wholly appropriate and appreciated and commensurate with the times,  and by contrast the present global economic crisis suggests a mood of frugality and austerity such that the excesses of the recent past—including rhetorical excesses—seem, well, excessive, the present set of resolutions will be offered in a pared-down and no-frills prose consistent with these historic times—or, to explain it in another way, this year’s Committee is just not going to be as entertaining as last year’s.

Be it resolved that, in accord with the above, members of the Resolutions Committee are prepared to forgo all retention bonuses to which their Committee membership entitles them, as well as any PES stock options, offshore tax havens, golden parachutes, the usual lavish gift baskets, or any of the other traditional trappings of this office, with one exception:  the free internet provided as part of the Hyatt PES conference rate.   

Be it resolved that David Hansen, President of the Philosophy of Education Society is owed a heartfelt “merci bien” for his stewardship of notre Societe, in part by holding the conference in Montreal which helps remind us that le monde is tres, tres, uh, mondial:  Nous vous souviendrons, Monsieur, including your bons mots et your joie de vivre, and in particular your peripatetic para-perambulations, not to mention your cosmopolitan and simultaneous circumnavigation of ancient Greece , Modern Montreal and ethical terroir.    

Be it resolved that Debby Kerdeman, Program Chair, not only ensured a lively, diverse and substantive program, but she also performed tasks significantly above and beyond the normal duties of a program chair, including securing food and drink for the receptions, the AV equipment, etc. without fear or favor and with cheerful diligence and great concern for the Society, all while sporting the latest in meeting planning button fashion, concerning which we further resolve that said button should be gilded and presented to Debby with suitable ceremony. 

Be it resolved that, in the same vein, the members of the Program Committee, Barbara Applebaum,  Ann Chinnery, Andrea English, Paul Farber, Bob Floden, Diane Gereluk, David Granger, Chris Higgins, Rob Kunzman, Anne Newman,  Stephen Norris, Emily Robertson, Kurt Stemhagen, Kathleen Knight-Abramowitz, and Shelby Sheppard deserve their share of praise for the quality and capaciousness of this year’s meeting.

Be it resolved that the Hospitality Committee, and specifically Kevin McDonough (Chair) along with Megan Boler, Scott Johnston, Bruce Maxwell, Walter Okshevsky, Daniel Vokey, David Waddington and Joel Westheimer, is appreciated for all its good efforts toward making the conference a success. 

Be it resolved that the Hyatt Regency Montreal Staff is highly appreciated and specifically Ms. Catherine Thibodeau, whose job title might as well be “Person Who Works With People Like Us” and who performed all relevant services with great care and attentiveness. 

Be it resolved that Ms. Linda Riggs, Ed Theory Business manager and Ms. Joyce Atkinson, Managing Editor of the PES Yearbook, enjoy the Society’s gratitude for working the registration table along with other conference tasks upon which the smooth functioning of the conference depends, and that both, along with Liz Jackson and Jeff Thibert warrant gratitude and recognition for their ongoing role in turning our spoken words into polished prose, thereby feeding  our amour propre and securing our intellectual immortality, and, even more significantly, our tenure and promotion.

Be it resolved that we are grateful to the generous sponsors of this, the 65th Annual Meeting:  The Boston Research Center for the 21st Century, Democratic Dialogue and the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Education, McGill University’s Faculty of Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, Centre de Recherche en Ethique de l’Universite de Montreal, and the College of Education at the University of Washington, Seattle. 

Be it resolved that Craig Cunningham and the rest of the Committee on the PES Website does a great job maintaining and improving said site and that we would be bereft without their efforts.
Be it resolved that Jeff Milligan, as Executive Director, is hereby recognized for his continuing selfless diligence on behalf of the Society regarding a wide array of tasks that nobody else really wants to do.

Be it resolved that the book display, coordinated by the Library of Social Science, was much appreciated and that, even though, “social science” doesn’t really describe our field, hey, we’ll take it.  

Be it resolved that Kathy Hytten is to be cherished for NOT rotating off of the Executive Committee as is Natasha Levinson for NOT rotating off COPA prematurely, due to the lack of an election to replace each as her tour of duty was supposed to be ending.  Relatedly, be it further resolved that Jim Garrison and the rest of the last year’s Elections Committee are to be thanked for their austerity and restraint in sparing PES the time and expense of actually holding an election, as is the usual custom.  

Be it resolved that the Ad Hoc Group on the Public Face of PES is to be congratulated on their cold eyed realism for implicitly contemplating a name change to “The Ad Hoc Group on the Lack of a Public Face of PES. 

Be it resolved that Walter Feinberg was a good sport for enduring PES’s odd equivalent of a Lifetime Achievement Award, which consists of enduring the affectionately launched slings and arrows of outrageous colleagues at the Roast in his honor. 

Be it resolved that further in the sprit of financial austerity, all PES committees and SIGS are henceforth encouraged to known by the shortest possible acronym, thus for example ensuring that the Ad Hoc Committee on the Formation of a New Standing Committee on Race and Ethnicity will have the longest acronym in the history of the Society:  AHCOFANSCORAE, and that we wish them success proportional to the length of said acronym. 

Be it resolved that the renowned sommelier Christopher Roy Higgins is hereby commended for his patronage in buying out of his own pocket a mere single round of admittedly overpriced drinks for the members of this Committee, which continues a venerable tradition that we dutifully pledge to maintain through the even more miserly gesture of purchasing one single communal drink for those unfortunates who will be dragooned into service on next years’ Resolutions Committee, this being an unfortunate consequence of the aforementioned reduction in Committee perks and kickbacks. 

Be it resolved that the current and hopefully temporary paucity of jobs for philosophers of education is to be blamed 100% upon the financial products division of the Jobs for Philosophers of Education Committee.  Be it further resolved that the PES Executive Committee will hold hearings on the lavish retention bonuses granted to that division of the Committee.

-David Hansen passed the gavel to Audrey Thompson, the 2009-2010 president of PES.

-Audrey invited Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon to announce the name of the president-elect.

-Sophie: On behalf of the elections committee I would like to announce that the president elect is Eamonn Callan.

-Audrey thanked David Hansen and Debby Kerdeman for assisting in a smooth transition. She announced Gert Biesta as the 2010 program chair. She stated that Gert has been working on the program committee, which is almost ready to go. Lorraine Code will be the 2010 Kneller Lecturer. The 2010 meeting will be held at the  Hyatt at Fisherman’s Wharf, April 8-12 in San Francisco. The offered her thanks to the indispensable help of Michael Katz and Lonna Smith in identifying a site and negotiating a contract with the hotel. She also acknowledged the great support from Sasha Sidorkin and the executive board. She and Gert have been talking about when they issue the call for submissions they will ask that the general session papers be available on line so that people can read them ahead of time. The deadline for paper submissions is as always Nov. 1. Susan Verducci will serve as hospitality/site chair. She has been a big help already.

-Sophie moved to adjourn. Megan Laverty seconded.

Meeting Adjourned 7:45