The NASSCAL First Fridays workshop taking place October 6 will also be the time that we elect a new Board of Directors. Ideally, this would be done at a bi-annual meeting of the Society, but we do not have an in-person meeting planned for this year (though we are hoping to mount a NASSCAL conference in 2024 or 2025).
Here are the relevant by-laws for election of the NASSCAL board.
Article III. Nomination and Election of Directors and Officers
Section 1. Nomination.
Nomination for election to the Board of Directors and officers shall be made by a nominating committee. Self-nominations are encouraged and may also be made from the floor at the bi-annual meeting. The nominating committee shall make as many nominations for election to each designated office of the Board of Directors and to each position on the Board not designated as an officer as it shall in its discretion determine, but not less than the number of vacancies that are to be filled.
Section 2. Nominating Committee.
The Nominating Committee shall consist of three members of the Society who shall be appointed by the President. The members will be appointed six months before the bi-annual meeting and will serve until the conclusion of the bi-annual meeting. The list of nominees shall be distributed to the membership at least three (3) weeks prior to the meeting.
Section 3. Election.
Election to the Board of Directors shall take place at each annual meeting. At such election the members or their proxies may cast, in respect to each vacancy, one (1) vote. Voting will take the form of a show of hands; nominated members will be asked to leave the room during voting. The person nominated for each position receiving a majority of the votes cast shall be elected.
Again, because we are not meeting in-person, the election will take place at the online First Fridays workshop.
The nominations committee has put forward the following names to constitute the 2023–2025 board:
Executive
President: Lily Vuong (automatic transition from Vice-President)
Vice-President: Eric Vanden Eykel
Immediate Past President: Brandon Hawk (automatic transition from President)
Student Member: Jonathan Holste
Communications: Jeannie Sellick
Independent Scholar Member: Slavomír Čéplö
Members at large
Mark Bilby (continuing)
Tony Burke (continuing)
Cristian Cardozo
Meghan Henning (continuing)
Jacob Lollar
Hugo Lundhaug (continuing)
Julia Snyder (continuing)
Again, nominations can also come from the floor.
We hope you will join us for the October 6 meeting, to say farewell (and thank you) to the previous board, and welcome to the new.