SUBMITTED BY
Gail Webster
REPORTING PERIOD
Mar-26-2022 - Jul-30-2023
A. INTRODUCTION/OPENING COMMENTS
Our committee’s purpose is to nominate DivCHED members for committee service and leadership opportunities within the Division. We seek to be inclusive of all members including chemical education practitioners and researchers across all levels of institutions. The committee tries to match the skills, experiences, and interests of individuals to service opportunities within the division.
B. INFORMATION SINCE LAST REPORT
- CPN developed nominations nominations for Board of Publication and Board of Trustees and will present those nominees to ExComm at the Fall 2023 meeting.
- The committee requested and received a new email address, "nominations@divched.org." Previously, emails from the chairs were sometimes sent to junk or could seem questionable to their intended recipients. Now, members see that this our emails are legitimately from the Division of Chemical Education.
- The updated nominations form on the website was instituted for members to either self-nominate or nominate colleagues.
- A big thank you to Heather Johnson for helping us with bullet points two and three, above!
C. PLAN(S) FOR FUTURE
- Co-chairs Gail and Laura will be rotating off of the committee at the end of 2023 and continue to work with Blain Mamiya who will be moving into the Chair role.
- We have strongly suggested that he seek a co-chair to help with the work of the committee, since Laura and Gail have found this arrangement to be beneficial to CPN's work.
- CPN submitted a newsletter article for the membership that points to the nomination form on the website and encourages participation in the division.
- CPN has asked that the Division devote some social media posts throughout the year advertising the nomination form as a way to get more members involved in service opportunities.
- CPN sent a request to Heather Johnson to send CPN a regular download of nomination form submissions based on the recommended deadlines below:
- Elected leadership positions: January 31 (send responses in Excel to CPN in early Feb)
- Board appointments: June 30 (send to CPN early July)
- Committee interest: September 30 (send to CPN early October)
D. OTHER
- CPN continues to strongly advises other division committees to consider and develop chair succession planning within each committee to ensure smooth transition and continuity of committee work.
- CPN suggests that prior to committee appointments, that committee chairs be surveyed to determine if members ending terms should be re-appointed. Also, in that same survey, to request that committee and board chairs provide any specific skills or experiences that will enhance the work of the committee or board.
- CPN would like to work with ExComm to determine the best way to gather that information.
- Also, this was in our last consent agenda, and it still seems relevant now:
- CPN would like for ExComm to consider working with our committee (and perhaps other committees) to find intentional pathways for membership engagement. Not only would we like to find ways to "lift members up" through the division, we would like to have more formalized ways to broaden membership participation so that we are being more intentional about DEIR in the organization.
MEMBER LIST
Name
Gail Webster
Name
Laura Anna
Name
Chris Bauer
Name
Blain Mamiya
Name
Arlene Russell
Name
Susan Schelble
Name
Dawn Del Carlo
Name
Rebecca Eikey
Name
Laura Slocum
Name
Jennifer Lewis