ABSTRACT

On February 24th, 2001, the earth stopped spinning and time stood still. At least it seemed that way to some of the more than 300 participants of the Stauffer Symposium on Applied Psychology at the Claremont Colleges in southern California. They came from near and far to hear worldrenowned evaluators articulate their visions of how we should evaluate social programs and solve social problems in the 21st century. The format was highly interactive and included six visions for the new millennium, five reactions talks in response to the vision presentations, brief responses by the visionaries to the reactors, and a facilitated discussion with the large and vocal audience. Footprints from this rich, dynamic, vibrant, and sometimes contentious discourse appear in some detail in this volume.