Committees

Serving on an NAES standing committee is excellent preparation for Board service, and offers a significant way to serve the organization. Nearly all of the standing committees need non-Board members to contribute. To inquire about serving on an NAES committee, please contact the chair of the committee in which you are interested.

• Audit (Chair: Ashton Welch)

  Does a once a year internal audit of the books, usually at the Fall Board meeting (always chaired by the Vice President; Treasurer and Office Manager are always ex officio. Requires two Board members in addition to Chair).

• Budget/Finance (Chair: George Junne)

  Reviews financial statement and develops long and short range budgets to be approved by the Board of Directors and brought to the general membership for approval, usually at the Spring meeting. External auditor has suggested that developing budgets to be prioritized as a function of this committee. (Chaired by Treasurer, Office Manager is ex officio member, two members must always be non-officer members of the Board.)

• Site Selection for Conferences (Chair: Connie Jacobs)

  Works to develop site bids for the annual conference and proposes to the Board locale and hotel sites for the National Conference.

• Publication (Chair: Carleen Sanchez)

  Produces publications for the association. At the 2001 Fall Board meeting, this committee was reconfigured to include general editor (as Chair) and the editors of the four publications (website, journal, reviews and newsletter) and the Office Manager as ex officio. Other members can be added.

• Current Issues (Chairs: Ron Scapp)

  Develops a plenary (or two) for each upcoming conference that focuses on current issues.

• Graduate Student Affairs (Chair: Ying Wang, Co-Advisors: Robin McKinney and Connie Jacobs)

  Brings graduate student issues to the Board, coordinates graduate student panels, brown bag lunches for annual meeting, manages grad student listserv (committee should include other grad students not on the Board).

• Pon & Irby Awards (Chair: Sandra Holstein)

  For the Irby, announces nomination process, receives nominations, administers voting, and arranges for presentation of award at annual conference (committee confers with former winners). For the Pon, works with local conference's community to identify award winner (committee confers with Pon founder).

• Membership/Fundraising (Chair: Larry Shinagawa)

  Tracks membership and works out affordable strategies to increase membership. Membership and Fundraising committees were combined in 2001 by then NAES President Ottenheimer on the theory that both activities are complexly interrelated and mutually reinforcing.

• Publicity & Promotion (Chair: Raúl Rubio)

  Works closely with the Site Selection and Membership/Fundraising committees and the general NAES membership to increase the visibility and enhance the national reputation of NAES.

• Nominations/Elections (Chair: Ashton Welch)

  Recruits individuals to run for Board positions, develops ballots, counts results.

• Student Paper Competition (Chair: Connie Jacobs)

  Announces competitions, receives submissions, decides on winners. (If there is a sponsoring institution for the conference, the committee can include one member from that institution.)