Hello Mallory: I. This is a grass-roots movement. We would like to target e-mails to psychology majors at their university addresses to see how they respond to the critique of psychology's academic communities on the grounds of career preparation, education, and knowledge production. If, as we suspect, the information proves valuable to them, or if after additional experience or inquiry they discover their professors have not been conscientious in these three areas (as many students have learned with respect to post-bacceleaureate employment and with respect to the odds and obstacles associated with graduate admission), then they may defect in numbers sufficient to pressure university administrators to restructure their departments of psychology in ways that benefit students and subject matter. Bureaucratization, homogenization, and deindividuation is the order of the day, at least for now, and we seek to change this. II. The campaign tool chest also contains an expose/epic thriller, Fireflies in the Shadow of the Sun, which represents our efforts to realign perception with reality among the general public. The book has not yet been released. The publisher is NOT the NY conglomerate with the capability to finance publicity, and so we'll have to take a wait-and-see approach to what can be accomplished through word-of-mouth, listserv distribution, regional book tours, and appeals to smaller print and radio media. III. Whenever the APA mobilizes its members to flood Congressional e-mail and switchboards with concerns, we shadow these efforts by offering key representatives an "alternative" view from a former insider (a social psychologist) qualified to opine on matters of research. A minority point of view from a credible insider is often all that is needed to offset a spate of canned petitions from like-minded or manded professionals.
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