Section Elections

Officers for each of the seven sections are elected by the general ASA membership. Section officers must be active members of ASA. Terms are based on a calendar year (January 1 through December 31). Section officers serve the following terms:

• Section chair and vice chair: Two-year term, total, with first year as vice chair and second as presiding chair.
• Section representative to the ASA Board of Directors: Three-year term.

Candidates for section office are identified at the annual section business meeting, with section chairs reporting names to the section board representative. The section board representative reports candidate names to the ASA Board of Directors during their meeting held at CANVAS.

Roles of Section Officers

There are three section officers: chair, vice chair, and board representative.

The chair for each section will:

• Serve as chair during their second year as section officer after serving one year as section vice chair.
• Serve as a member of the A711 Program Planning Committee. Duties include:
  • Overseeing the distribution of program enhancement funds.
  • Providing guidance to community leaders for organizing program technical sessions for CANVAS.
  • Arranging papers in a coordinated program.
  • Arranging symposia and field trips.
  • For overarching section topics and activities, the chair may also organize symposia, oral or poster sessions, field trips, or graduate student awards to prevent topical overlap.
• Schedule, write the agenda, and conduct the section’s annual business meeting. This may also include including time for communities to meet in breakout sessions at the annual business meeting.
• Communicate and report information to and from communities within the section in a timely manner as needed to conduct ASA and section business.
• Chair the nomination committee for the section vice chair and for the section representative to the ASA Board of Directors. The nomination committee is composed of the section chair and vice chair. Nominations will be solicited from community members through community leaders.
• Serve as a member of the A101 Nominations Committee. Other members of this committee include the ASA Executive Committee with the current president serving as chair and voting members of the ASA Board of Directors that are not represented through sections (early career, finance, industry, and ICCA representatives).
• Submit an annual summary report of section and community activities to the ASA Board of Directors as requested.
• Respond in a timely manner to requests for section action from the ASA President, executive committee, board of directors, or staff liaison.

The vice chair of each section will:

• Serve as vice chair for one year before serving a second year as section chair.
• Assist the section chair in their role as section program chair.