My second one-year term as president is up. So, with this column, I bid you farewell. I could spend these last few moments reflecting on my accomplishments, but I have elected not to. In the first place, it would by implication overstate my role in what has happened, and secondly, it is history.
Progress is a process.
It has evolved steadily under the guidance of my predecessors and now me. While I am proud of the progress evidenced on my watch, virtually all of it can be traced to ideas and initiatives that predated my first term as president. Folks who still regard CPA as either inimical or irrelevant to the interests of psychological scientists and academics or to the interests of psychological practitioners just have not been paying attention. But little is gained by dwelling on the past. I prefer looking to the future, which, I believe, holds great promise if current trends continue.