SSSP Educational Problems Business Meeting Minutes July 7, 2022, 2:00 pm-3:00pm EST, via Microsoft Teams Division Chair: Myron T. Strong

Attending:, Myron T. Strong,, Irina Chukhray, Derron Wallace

1. Review of Division 2022 Sessions. Please try to attend our division’s sessions! 
The Society for the Study of Social Problems | SSSP 2022 Annual Meeting (sssp1.org)
2. Recognition of 2022 Graduate Student Paper Awards---Members are encouraged to attend the sessions of these wonderful paper award recipients. Abstracts of these papers are available in the Spring Newsletter

 Award Winners:
Karlyn Gorski 
The University of Chicago
Institute of Education Sciences Pre-Doctoral Fellow
PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology
Paper title: "You selling?": Snack sales and the construction of deviance in a high school 

Rebecca Diane Gleit's  (2nd picture)
PhD candidate, Stanford University
Paper title: De Facto Expulsions: How and Why Students are Forcibly Removed from School

Honorable Mention:
Irina Chukhray 
Fellow - Penn Migration Initiative (PMI) / Penn-Birmingham Transatlantic Fellows Program| 
Univ. of CA, Davis, Graduate Student | Department of Sociology 
Paper title: Immigrant Age-At-Arrival, Social Capital, and College Enrollment

JIENIAN ZHANG
Ph.D. student in Sociology, University of Wisconsin- Madison
Paper title: Hospice Education: Palliative Schooling in the Age of Equity

3. Two Awards for starting in 2023. Next year the division membership voted to create two new awards. After thinking about it and consulting with divisions members (special thanks to Irina and Derron) there was a thought about supporting the membership at different points of there career. While we can’t cover every stage, I think it was important to generate awards that support the membership at different stages of their career.

That being saying the Outstanding Book Award will be geared toward members on their 1st book. The hope is that this captures early career scholars and those who recently turned their dissertation into a book and supports their career journey whether it towards tenure, career outside, etc. 

The other award is a Scholarship to the Discipline Award. This award will be teaching/ mentoring geared toward full or associate professors and hire who are doing meaningful work, teaching, mentoring, etc. Assistant professors can apply but  it seeks to award those who have a history beyond a couple years and are more likely to be in places where they can focus on these areas. There are a great number of members during great work advancing pedagogy, and mentoring undergraduate, graduate students, as well other faculty. This award is solely limited to members with academic careers, for there are many are teaching and mentoring in all careers. 

I will forward the official calls in a couple weeks. Both awards will come $100 honorariums and plaques. 
 
4. Recruitment for next division chair. The division chair is elected for 2-year terms. My term ends Fall 2023. So I am soliciting names for the election for the next chair. The election will take place in spring 2023, and they would transition to the chair ship. I would help the transition and honestly SSSP administrative officers are great to work with. It is not incredible time consuming and its mostly managing the awards and sessions for annual conference.

Feel free to send nominations to me and self-nominations are welcome

5. Brainstorm sessions for 2023 SSSP Meeting in Los Angeles. 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 – 2023 Conference Philadelphia, PA
Theme-- Same Problem Different Day: Recognizing and Responding to Recurring Social Problems
Tentative division sponsored sessions:

1. Thematic, Paper Session— Is Lecturing Racist?: The Emergence of New Pedagogy Approaches,organizer, Myron T. Strong  
2. Paper Session— Dreamers Assemble: 1.5 immigrant youths and a Sense of Belonging, organizer, Irina Chukhray, ichukhray@ucdavis.edu
3. Paper Session —Closing Gap?: The  Digital Divide Since Covid organizer, TBA

Possible Co-Sponsored Sessions:
1. Paper Session—Second Generation Immigrants Students and A Sense of Belonging, organizer, TBA (Possible Co-Sponsors: Global, Institutional Ethnography; Poverty, Class and Inequality; Youth, Aging and the Life Course)
2. Critical Dialogue—Education as a Tool Social Change organizer, TBA (Possible Co-Sponsors: Family; Poverty, Class and Inequality; Racial and Ethnic Minorities; Gender)
3. Paper Session- How do we Progress: Addressing Institutional Racism and Sexism in Higher Education, organizer, TBA (Possible Co-Sponsors: Race and Ethnic Relations; Gender)
4. Paper Session—Are Bathrooms Enough: Addressing LGBTQIA issues in Higher Education, organizer TBA (Possible Co- Sponsors: Teaching Social Problems; Gender)