Election Process for the FEd Executive Committee

Jerry Feldman, Vice Chair and Chair of the Nominating Committee – Forum on Education, George Washington University

The Forum on Education has assembled a slate of candidates for election to the FEd Executive Committee. The candidates for Vice Chair are Catherine Crouch (Swarthmore College) and Scott Franklin (Rochester Institute of Technology). The nominee who is elected this year will serve as Chair-Elect, Chair, and Past Chair in subsequent years.

The candidates for the Member-at-Large seat to replace Luz Martinez-Miranda (whose term ends in 2018) are Brad Conrad (AIP) and Adrienne Traxler (Wright State University). The candidates for the APS-AAPT Member-at-Large seat currently held by Toni Sauncy (whose term ends in 2018) are Robert Hobbs (Bellevue College) and Ben Dreyfus (George Mason University). The elected Members-at-Large will take office in January 2019 and will serve a three-year term.

This year, for the first time, we are also electing a Graduate Student member of the FEd Executive Committee. We are grateful to our two candidates for this position, Julian Gifford (Univ. of Colorado) and Nicholas Young (Michigan State Univ.), for their willingness to stand for election. The elected Graduate Student member will take office in January 2019 and will serve a two-year term.

To produce this slate of candidates, a Nominating Committee (chaired by Jerry Feldman, FEd Vice Chair) was appointed in May 2018 and was composed of Andy Gavrin (IUPUI), Laura McCullough (Univ. of Wisconsin Stout), Luz Martinez-Miranda (Univ. of Maryland), Toni Sauncy (Texas Lutheran Univ.), Monica Plisch (APS) and Gordon Ramsey (AAPT). In the first round of deliberations, each member of the committee was provided with a list of all FEd members and asked to propose potential candidates for each position. In the second round, this list was filtered down to at least six top choices for each position and a rank ordering was determined, keeping in mind diversity of demographics, institution type, career stage, and focus of educational interests. In August, the Vice Chair contacted the persons named in order to identify those willing to stand for election, completing the slate by the end of September. The ballots for the FEd Executive Committee election will be available in mid-October and voting will close in mid-November. The results of the election will be announced shortly thereafter.

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