Division business meetings will be held at CANVAS. The division business meeting is chaired and conducted by the division chair with minutes kept by the chair elect. Notes from the division business meeting are submitted to SSSA headquarters as part of the division’s annual report. Division chairs can send notice of the division business meeting’s time and place to members through the division’s Member Hub.

Sample Business Meeting Format

  1. Message from one of the Presidents.
  2. Board representative report: Division board reps provide an update on Society activities. This may include a CANVAS report, budget and finance summary, and/or a membership update.
  3. Review the division’s activity over the past year.
  4. Open discussion for division symposia ideas for the following year’s CANVAS program.
  5. Explanation of program enhancement fund policy and status.
  6. Election nominations: Division chairs discuss and identify candidates for chair-elect and division board representative when the positions become vacant. Division chairs also discuss/identify candidates for SSSA president-elect. Division chairs will provide candidate names of division officers and SSSA president-elect to their division board rep.