SSSP Educational Problems Business Meeting Minutes July 20, 2023, 2:00 pm-3:00pm EST, via Microsoft Teams Division Chair: Myron T. Strong

Attending:, Myron T. Strong,, Kyla Walters, Linda Waldron

1. Review of Division 2023 Sessions. Please try to attend our division’s sessions! 
The Society for the Study of Social Problems | SSSP 2023 Annual Meeting (sssp1.org)
2. Recognition of 2023 Award Winners---Members are encouraged to attend the sessions of these wonderful paper award recipients. Abstracts of these papers are available in the Spring Newsletter

Grad Paper Award Winner: 
“The Commodification of Diversity in the Context of School Choice,” J’Mauri Jackson, Indiana University Bloomington
 
Grad Paper Award Honorable Mention: 
“The Labeling Power of CRT: Measuring Support for School Content using a Survey Experiment,” Andrew Myers and Crista Urena Hernandez, Indiana University
 
Book Award Winner: 
The Culture Trap: Ethnic Expectations and Unequal Schooling for Black Youth, Derron Wallace, Oxford University Press, 2023
 
Book Award Honorable Mention: 
Care-Based Methodologies: Reimagining Qualitative Research with Youth in US Schools, Veena Vasudevan, Nora Gross, Pavithra Nagarajan, Katherine Clonan-Roy, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022
 
Contribution of the Discipline Award Winner: 
Linda M. Waldron, Christopher Newport University

3. Introducing next division chair. Kyla Walters introduced herself and discussed some of her plans for the next term.

4. Brainstorm sessions for 2024 SSSP Meeting in Montreal. Meeting is fully in person. See ideas below. Please email your interest in these or other sessions. Organizers, moderators, and discussants are always needed! The Chairs meeting that takes place on sometime in August, which will start the official organization of sessions, so these are just a starting point.

Educational Problems Session Planning – 2024 Conference Montreal 
Theme—Towards a Sociology of Violence
Tentative division sponsored sessions:

1. Thematic, Paper Session— Understanding How to reduce school violence. -Linda Waldron  
2. Paper Session— Attack on Academic freedom – Kyla Walters 
3. Critical Dialogue —The Culture Trap by Derron Wallace 

Possible Co-Sponsored Sessions:
1. Paper Session—Mental health and violence in schools (Possible Co-Sponsors: Teaching Social Problems; Family, Conflict, Social Action and Change; Youth, Aging and the Life Course)
2. Paper Session —Chat GPT and Changes to Education organizer, TBA (Possible Co-Sponsors: Environment and Technologhy)
3. Paper Session- Cyber bullying , organizer, TBA (Possible Co-Sponsors: Race and Ethnic Relations; Gender)