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 as we try to match qualified individuals to service opportunities that they are interested in, have the appropriate skills to do and will benefit the Division.
- CPN thanks Roxie Allen, Nathan Grove and Dan King for their prior service on the committee and welcomes new members Rebecca Eikey, Laura Slocum and Jennifer Lewis.
- CPN developed and presented the election slates for the ExComm leadership positions of Chair-elect, Treasurer and Councilor/Alternate Councilor (4 positions).
- AACT liaison nominations have been moved to the Spring meeting agenda. This allows for timely appointment for this role that begins on July 1.
- The committee proposed changes to the “Get-Involved” self-nomination DivCHED website form. Proposed changes are intended to allow individuals to share additional information about their interests and qualifications.
ADD [required] Name of person submitting form
ADD [required] radio button for nomination type: Self; Other
ADD If other, Name of nominee
ADD section header that states “Nominee Information”
ADD [required] radio buttons for Institution affiliation: K-12 (public/private); Two-year; PUI; Masters level; R1; Government; Industry; non-profit
ADD [optional text box]: Briefly describe any current or prior service within the Division of Chemical Education (i.e. elected or appointed positions, committee service, conference symposium organizer).
ADD [optional text box]: Briefly describe why you are interested in getting involved in the Division of Chemical Education.
ADD [optional text box]: Briefly describe any current or prior service, work or experiences outside of the Division of Chemical Education that may be relevant to the Division service in which you are interested.
- Co-chairs Gail and Laura will be rotating off of the committee at the end of 2023 and are working with Blain Mamiya who will be moving into the Chair role.
- Our next major task will be to develop the election slate for open Board positions at the Fall 2023 meeting.
- We are exploring the possibility of creating a CPN committee ‘divched.org’ email account that can be used for committee business.
- CPN 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 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.