TY - JOUR
AU - Adair, John G.
AB -  Changes in the organization of ARTS The rst several ARTS (see Poortinga, 1993; Kagitcibasi, 1995, 1997) were highly dependent upon volunteers for topic selection, for their ability to raise funds, and for convening the seminar. In her substantial report on the 1996 ARTS, Kagitcibasi (1997) expressed concerns with this process and an urgent need for the program to become more formally structured through the creation of an ARTS Secretariat. The program was reviewed at this time and reaf rmed, but accompanied by only an informal restructuring with the appointment of the next Coordinator. This restructuring meant that the ARTS program would be more centrally administered with the Coordinator essentially functioning as a Secretariat at no cost to the program. I agreed to this approach, having decided that the task was too unstructured with too many issues and uncertainties simply to be delegated to each convener to learn and manage on their own in such a short time. Having completed two terms as Coordinator, I agreed to serve a third term in order that I might nalize a substantial ARTS Manual to help guide the process and to have time, with an ARTS Committee, to select a Coordinator to 
TI - The first decade of ARTS: The congress years 1992–2000
JF - International Journal of Psychology
DO - 10.1080/00207590143000090
DA - 2001-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/the-first-decade-of-arts-the-congress-years-1992-2000-cOJ076jeC9
SP - 202
EP - 204
VL - 36
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -