[ICPSR] Call for ICPSR Council Nominations

[George Alter]

Dear Colleagues,

As you are aware, the ICPSR Council
<http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/content/membership/governance/council.html>
serves
as the executive committee for ICPSR member institutions.  The Council sets
general policy for the Consortium, approves fees and budgets, and performs
other duties.  The Council consists of twelve members serving four-year
terms. Six new members are elected by the Official Representatives every
second year.

The Nominating Committee solicits your suggestions of persons with the
experience, ability, and wisdom to serve on the Council.  Responsibility
and willingness to work are also vital.  The Council meets three times each
year, and members must devote time between meetings to review materials and
undertake committee tasks.

The best way for the Nominating Committee to prepare a strong slate is to
have suggestions from Official Representatives and other friends of the
Consortium.  We seek a diversity of people and perspectives.  You may
nominate someone from your own institution, or anyone you think is
qualified. All Council members must be affiliated with member
institutions.  Council members need not be current or former Official
Representatives, but they should be active supporters of the social and
behavioral science research enterprise.

The slate of six nominees will be announced to Official Representatives
during early fall 2015, and the slate will be voted upon by electronic
ballot following the OR Meeting in October, during which there will be an
opportunity for write-in nominations, as before.  Newly elected members of
Council will be seated at the first meeting of Council in 2016.

The Nominating Committee also nominates one of the continuing members to
serve a two-year term as Council Chair.  We welcome your suggestions about
who should serve in this position.

In addition to two additional members to be appointed shortly by Council,
these are the members of the Nominating Committee:

Christopher H. Achen, Princeton University; achen at princeton.edu

Marilyn Andrews, University of Regina; Marilyn.Andrews at uregina.ca

Tony N. Brown, Vanderbilt University; tony.n.brown at vanderbilt.edu

John Fox, McMaster University; jfox at mcmaster.ca

Linda J. Waite, University of Chicago; l-waite at uchicago.edu

Carl Lagoze, University of Michigan; clagoze at umich.edu

You should feel free to communicate directly with the members of the
Nominating Committee (listed above), but it will help us if you send your
suggestions to a special email address we have created:

councilnominees at icpsr.umich.edu

In doing so, please provide a brief summary of the individual's
qualifications, and*make sure that the nomination reaches us by April 3,
2015.* It would also be very helpful if you explained in your nomination
why this person’s expertise would be valuable to ICPSR.

For your information, a list of the current members of the Council is below.

Thank you very much for your help with this important task.

Sincerely,

George Alter

Director, ICPSR


*Current members of the ICPSR Council:*

*Terms ending 2016:*

Christopher H. Achen, Princeton University (Political Science)

Marilyn Andrews, University of Regina (Spatial & Numeric Data Services)

Tony N. Brown, Vanderbilt University (Sociology)

Carl Lagoze, University of Michigan (School of Information)

John Fox, McMaster University (Social Statistics)

Linda J. Waite, University of Chicago (Sociology)



*Terms ending 2018:*

Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier, Ohio State University (Political Science)

Robert S. Chen, Columbia University & CIESIN (Geography)

Philip N. Jefferson, Swarthmore College (Economics)

Chandra L. Muller, University of Texas at Austin (Sociology)

Ronald Nakao, Stanford University Libraries (Data & Computational Social
Science)

William Vega, University of Southern California (Health and Aging)
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