The Council on Academic Affairs will elect its council officers for the 2002-2003 academic year on Thursday.

In addition to council elections, the council will also vote on a revision to psychology course 4610, Advanced Statistics in Psychology.

Two one-year term positions, chair and vice chair, will be available to current CAA members. Terms will start during the first meeting of the fall.

Current Chair Andrew Methven, associate biology professor, and Vice Chair Doug Bock, speech communication professor, will be eligible for re-election as well as the other current CAA members Nancy Marlow, management and marketing professor; Annette Samuels, assistant journalism professor; Larry Helsel, technology professor; Jill Owen, physical education professor; and Julie Dietz, associate health studies professor.

Methven said student members Justin Brinkmeyer, a geography and technology education major; Jessica Catto, a communication disorders and sciences major, and Amanda Sartore, a political science major, are also eligible for election.

Newly-elected council members James Tidwell, journalism professor, and Pat Fewell, professor of secondary education and foundation, are not eligible for election, Methven said.

After a member is nominated for either position by another council member, the council will vote on which nomination to accept.

The proposed revision to psychology 4610 adds a lab component and changes the course description. The proposed course includes explicit description of the computer component and more accurately describes the range of issues covered in the course.

The CAA will meet at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Arcola/Tuscola Room of the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union.