The Council of Representatives is composed of the Board of Directors, the American Psychological Association of Graduate Students (APAGS) representative, division representatives, and state, provincial, and territorial association representatives. Then representatives for the current year, with terms of office, are listed in this article.

Septal infusions of the [gamma]-aminobutyric acid (GABA)[subscript A] agonist muscimol impair memory, and the effect likely involves the hippocampus. GABA[subscript A] receptors are present on the perikarya of cholinergic and GABAergic septo-hippocampal (SH) projections. The current experiments determined whether GABAergic SH projections are…

We have previously shown that fear extinction is accompanied by an increase of synaptic efficacy in inputs from the ventral hippocampus (vHPC) and mediodorsal thalamus (MD) to the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and that disrupting these changes to mPFC synaptic transmission compromises extinction processes. The aim of this study was to examine…

One hundred years ago, the group of music supervisors who founded the organization that would become MENC met in Keokuk, Iowa. This was the beginning of an ongoing journey. This article takes a look at where the organization has come from as it considers where it is going. A timeline, quotes from Music Educators Journal through the years, and…

This directory is intended to provide a comprehensive listing of organizational and informational resources related to the rehabilitation needs of American Indians with disabilities. The guide is divided into two sections. The first section contains lists of American Indian organizations, American Indian centers, Bureau of Indian Affairs offices,…

The first meeting of the Coalition of Adult Education Organizations (CAEO) was held in Syracuse in 1964 as a Conference of Adult Education Organizations. Its purpose was to obtain input to help determine the development of the Library of Continuing Education (LCE). Presidents, other officers or leaders of 17 organizations in Canada and the United…

Promising research evidence linking achievement, empowerment, and parent participation are dwarfed by troubling indications of negative, infrequent interactions between families and schools. Middle-income parents seem to participate in school-based and home-learning exercises at higher rates than lower-class parents. The study summarized in this…

This directory lists and describes 7,186 currently active organizations that were established by minority group members or which operate programs for the benefit of minority groups. (An additional 1,358 entries for "lost" or inactive organizations are also included.) For purposes of the directory, minority groups are defined as including Native…

On the basis of relationships found empirically to hold among 20 organizational characteristics of university committees, two patterns are derived of the organizational roles which university committees play: the deliberative, collective decision-making role of member-dominated committees and the one-person advisory role of chairperson-dominated…

Examines the general problem of contextual analysis as applied to organizations; the way organizations are or may be classified; how governments, considered as organizations, relate to other kinds of organizations within their domain; and how the different way governments are organized affects nongovernmental organizations under their rule.…

Attempts to study the interbureaucratic political process of budget formulation; to deal with the allocation of money by the interaction of specific federal agencies, departments, and bureaus; to explain how bureaucracies behave toward one another; and to estimate the power of those involved in this one arena of bureaucratic politics. (Author/IRT)

The entire journal covers the 61st Annual Convention of the International Association of Pupil Personnel Workers in Charleston, South Carolina. Keynote addresses, committee reports and workshops are presented. The workshops covered topics such as drugs, child advocacy, autistic children, school social work and programs for the school-age parent.…

Authority consists of a subjective aspect, the accepting of a communication, and an objective aspect, the character in the communication by virtue of which it is accepted. Of these, the former is the more important, for there is no authority if the communication is rejected. (Author/WM)

In order to satisfy world industry's need for communication on environmental matters, the International Center for Industry and Environment (ICIE) was formed. The ICIE will act as a clearinghouse for industry's views and actions, communicate these views to the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), help formulate programs, and keep the…

This is a guide to the organizational units of the United Nations (UN) system that work on environmental issues. Section 1 provides short descriptions of sources of information on the environment from 34 organizations of the UN system. A contact address is given for each organization. Section 2 groups sources of information into 11 subject…