Canadian Psychological Association

1. Each year a call for nominations for Fellows and Awards is made. The call for nominations is placed in Psynopsis and is widely distributed through various email lists (e.g., to Sections, Departments of Psychology at Universities, Hospitals and Agencies, Provincial Associations, Committee Chairs). 
2. Any Member, except current members of the CPA Board of Directors and members of the Committee on Fellows and Awards, can be nominated for Fellow status or for an Award. Self nominations are not accepted. Nominators must be members of the CPA but cannot be current members of the Committee on Fellows and Awards nor can they be current members of the CPA Board of Directors .  
3. Nominations must include letter of nomination, a current curriculum vitae for the nominee and at least three endorsing letters written in the last calendar year by current Fellows or Members. Preferably, the nominators should be drawn from three different institutions, with no more than one coming from the nominee’s home institution.
4. Nominations for all awards shall be submitted to the Chair of the Fellows and Awards Committee, in care of the CPA Head Office, no later than October 15th. 
5. At the close of nominations, the Committee shall undertake to review the nominees.  
6. In the event that there are no nominees for either the John C. Service Member of the Year or the Humanitarian Awards by the nomination deadline, the CPA Board of Directors may propose nominees for these awards. 
7. In any year, the Chair and members of the Committee will choose the procedures to be followed by the Committee in selecting Fellows and Award recipients. These choices may pertain both to internal communications within the committee (e.g., individual voting without discussion, consultation by e-mail, telephone, or other means either before voting or after a preliminary vote) and to the rules for selecting the recipients (e.g., on the basis of a set proportion of positive votes out of those cast versus a plurality, each Committee member ranking all nominees versus identifying a single preferred nominee). 
8. Nominees for Fellows and Awards need to receive 5 out of 7 votes from the Committee on Fellows and Awards.  
9. Should the nominee not be selected the year submitted, he or she will automatically be reconsidered in each of the next two years.  However, the nominator shall submit an updated letter of nomination with a current curriculum vitae.
10. It is possible that not all awards will be given each year. 
11. The Chair of the Fellows and Awards Committee shall recommend to the Board of Directors of the Association, with supporting documentation, that the selected nominee be named the award recipient. 
12. The Board of Directors shall consider that recommendation at its next meeting or by e-mail, and either ratify the recommendation, or else refer the recommendation to the Fellows and Awards Committee for further consideration. The decision of the Board of Directors is final in this matter. 
13. The award recipient for each category shall be notified by the Chair of the Fellows and Awards Committee after the decision of the Board of Directors.  
14. The Chair shall further develop, in conjunction with the original nominator, an appropriate citation that can be read at the time of the presentation of the award.  
15. The Chair shall prepare a submission appropriate for the Association’s newsletter. 

Amended by the Board of Directors in November 2009

The deadline for receipt of nominations and supporting materials shall be October 15. Nominations should be addressed to: