Report on the Council Agenda for
The Council of the American
Chemical Society will meet in
Council will vote to fill
open positions on the three Council Committees.
There are ten candidates for the Committee on Committees (ConC)
from which five will be elected: George
M. Bodner, Cherlynvaughn Bradley, Rigoberto Hernandez, Roland F. Hirsch, Ann H.
Hunt, James M. Landis, Carol B. Libby, Roger A. Parker, Howard M. Peters, and
Sara H. Risch. There are eight
candidates for the Council Policy Committee (CPC), from which four will
be elected: R. Gerald Bass, Ray A. Dickie, Alan M. Ehrlich, Joseph A. Heppert,
Pamela D. Kistler, Bonnie A. Lawlor, Mamie W. Moy, and Eleanor D. Siebert
The final committee for which
positions will be filled is the Committee on Nominations and Elections
(N&E). There are fourteen candidates
for seven slots: V. Dean Adams, Roger F.
Bartholomew, W. H. (Jack) Breazeale, Jr., Donald J. Burton, Kenneth G. Caulton,
Dwight W. Chasar, Peter K. Dorhout, Catherine C. Fenselau, Morton Z. Hoffman,
Peter C. Jurs, William R. Oliver, Robert A. Pribush, Andrea B. Twiss-Brooks,
and Angela K. Wilson.
The Committee on Committees (ConC) will make a recommendation to Council for the continuation/discontinuation of selected committees as part of their regular committee review. There is no mention in the Council Agenda Book of which specific committees will be addressed.
Bylaw Changes
Petition on Society
Affiliate Dues
The
goal of this change to the Bylaws is to make the dues for Society Affiliates
equal to that of full members. The
rationale is that Affiliates enjoy the same privileges of members except that
they cannot vote for or hold an elective position in the Society or in its
Local Sections and Divisions. They are
eligible for the same meeting fees and publication subscription rates as
members of the Society. As of the last
official membership count (
Council must approve the
procedure developed by the Divisional Activities Committee (DAC) for the
distribution of the Divisional Allotment among Divisions. The procedure is as follows (note:
this is identical to the procedure that was described in
Each Division receives a base
allotment, plus a dollar value per each dues paying
member and national affiliate as of December 31 of the second preceding
year. The total Divisional Allotment is
divided into four parts. The total base
allotment fraction is 12.5% of the Divisional Allotment and is shared equally
among the divisions. The total
per-Member allotment is also 12.5% of the Divisional Allotment. This amount is divided by the total number of
Division Members (counting every Division to which a member belongs) and then
each Division is given a share for each of its Members. The Innovative Grant Allotment is set at 10%
of the Divisional Allotment. Finally,
65% of the Divisional Allotment is set aside for the Divisional Programming
Allotment.
Base Allotment:
Per Member Allotment:
This is calculated as
follows: The total number of Members who
can be identified as Members of Divisions is determined and divided into the
total funds available for distribution as Per-Member Allotment. The result is the per-Member allotment
(per-Member allotment = (0.125 X Divisional Allotment)/ (total number of
Division Members). Members belonging to
multiple Divisions are counted for each Division to which they belong).
Innovative Grant Allotment:
Innovative Grants moneys are
distributed by DAC based upon proposals from the Divisions for innovative
programs. The procedures for soliciting and selecting proposals are decided
upon by DAC.
Program Allotment:
The Program Allotment is
distributed to each Division according to the following formula:
Attendance at oral
sessions: 50%
# members
at meeting: 25%
# posters
presented: 25%
The distribution of
attendance money is determined as follows:
Class I Division (less than
2,000 members): Full credit for
attendance at the oral session with the highest reported attendance for the
Division for each half-day of the national meeting; no credit for subsequent
concurrent sessions.
Class II
Divisions (2,000 – 3,499 members): Full credit for attendance at the two oral
sessions with the highest reported attendance for the Division for each
half-day of the national meeting; no credit for subsequent concurrent sessions.
Class III
Divisions (3,500 or more members): Full credit for attendance at the three oral
sessions with the highest reported attendance for the Division for each
half-day of the national meeting; no credit for subsequent concurrent sessions.
For all Divisions, counts for
all off-peak programming (Sunday, Wednesday, Thursday and all evenings) are
doubled.
Co-sponsored sessions, but no
co-listed ones, are considered to be sessions of every co-sponsoring
Division. All co-sponsoring Divisions
receive full credit for co-sponsored sessions.
The total number of
“attendance units” is divided into the total funds available for distribution
based on attendance, and the attendance payouts are calculated for each
Division based on its number of “attendance units.”
The distribution
of the moneys based upon the number of Division Members registered at the two
national meetings is determined as follows:
The total number of
registrants who can be identified as Members of Divisions is determined and
divided into the total funds available for distribution based on the number of
members registered. The Division members
registered payout is then calculated.
Members belonging to multiple Divisions are counted for each Division to
which they belong.
The distribution of the
poster paper money is determined as follows:
The total number of poster
papers presented by the Divisions at the two national meetings is determined
and divided into the total funds available for distribution based on the number
of poster papers. The poster paper
payout for each Division is calculated.
Posters presented more than once are to be counted only once. For this reason and to simplify the tasks of
counting and calculation, posters presented at events such as SciMix and AEI
are excluded from the calculation.
Cosponsored poster sessions are considered to be poster sessions of
every co-sponsoring Division. All
co-sponsoring Divisions receive full credit for co-sponsored papers.
Proposal to Change the Catalysis Secretariat to a
Division
The Catalysis
Secretariat has requested Division status with a new name – Catalysis Science and Technology (CATL).
They have more than the minimum number (50) of signatures required for such a
petition. The Secretariat has been
successful during its 10 years of existence and wishes to move beyond the
programming limitations of Secretariats.
Council will hold a special
discussion entitled, Achieving Sustainability
(e.g., Energy, Water, Food): What can/should ACS do to address this key
global challenge? This discussion is
in support of Goal #3 of the ACS Strategic Plan - “ACS will be a global leader
in enlisting the world’s scientific professionals to address, through
chemistry, the challenges facing our world.”
The specific outcome for this discussion is to engage Council and its
committees in developing ideas for possible initiatives to bring to bear the
power of chemistry and the ACS to address sustainability. Some focus areas might be sustainable energy
(including alternative fuels and feedstocks), and sustainable global water and
food supplies. The ideas collected will
be shared widely within the Society to support their implementation.
Key questions to be
addressed:
A Town Hall Meeting sponsored by the Committee on
Nominations and Elections (N&E) will be held on
Respectfully
Submitted,
CINF
Councilors
Bonnie
Lawlor (blawlor@nfais.org)
Andrea
Twiss-Brooks (atbrooks@midway.uchicago.edu)