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The total number of APSA members living outside the United States
reached record numbers this fall—both as a total number and a
proportion of APSA membership. As of November 2008, there were 2,289
international members, up from 2,030 in 2007, 1,977 in 2006, and
1,875 in 2005. This number also represents over 15% of our current
total membership.

The co-leaders for the 2009 APSA Africa Workshop (Accra, Ghana, June
21–July 11) were officially selected by the Project Steering
Committee after an open and competitive process that concluded in
January. The U.S.-based leaders of the workshop will be Dr. Dan
Smith (University of Florida) and Dr. Kevin Fridy (University of
Tampa) and their Africa-based colleagues will be Dr. Beatrix
Allah-Mensah (University of Ghana, Legon) and Dr. Ukoha Ukiwo
(University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria). The theme of the 2009
workshop will be "Elections and Democracy: Exchanging African and
Comparative Perspectives."

Founded by Edgar F. Allen in 1922 in Elyria, Ohio as The International Society for Crippled Children, today Rehabilitation International (RI) is a global network promoting and implementing the rights, inclusion and rehabilitation of people with disabilities. From the beginning, the organization dedicated itself to assist disabled people, doing so by providing direct services, by disseminating information, and by influencing political decisionmaking. Uniquely, it has been a cross-disability, cross-disciplinary, and international organization from the start. Further, in its first decade as in its eighth, conceiving and publicizing bills of rights were a key feature of the organization's mission.