FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PA&D ADVISORY COUNCIL
Each member of the PA&D Advisory Council is responsible for a particular function. This means that the PA&D Advisory member in consultation with PA&D Committee members and the PA&D Advisory Council sets a priority of goals and realistic projects (both short-term and long-term) for thier work on the PA&D Advisory Council.

DESCRIPTIONS OF FUNCTIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES:
Responsibilities of the Co-Chairs:
1. Coordinate PA&D Advisory Council functions but not run them,
2. Represent the PA&D Committee and Advisory Council at various functions,
3. Write reports and document progress made by PA&D Advisory Council task forces,
4. Attend meetings, e.g. NWSA Governing Council, as a voting member,
5. Oversee finances of the PA&D Advisory Council,
6. Conduct elections for new Advisory members at yearly PA&D Business Meetings at the annual NWSA.

Communications and Networking: 
to archive and develop materials that are official communications and minutes from the PA&D Advisory Council for members of the PA&D Committee, the PA listserve, PA&D Newsletter, PA&D Website, NWSAction, NWSA Journal, NWSA Governing Council, and other media; to develop more effective networks for Women's Studies Program Administrators and Directors of Graduate Studies; to record the minutes of the PA&D Business meetings.

Conference Planning: 
to plan and develop pre-conferences, conferences or conference tracks Women's Studies Program Administrators

Data Collection: 
to initiate, maintain, and develop comparative institutional data on Women's Studies departments and programs 

Grants and Partnering: 
to search for grants appropriate for women's studies; to assist various Women's Studies Program Administrators in getting grants; and to develop and maintain productive institutional partnerships, such as articulation strategies between two-year and four-year institutions for women's studies majors or other collaborations between Program Administrators and feminist leaders or organizations 

Infrastructure: 
to maintain the NWSA recommended standards, criteria, and other structures that strengthen Women's Studies departments and programs and to review and recommend to the PA&D Committee and Governing Council interpretations or revisions of these infrastructures or the development of new infrastructures; includes NWSA recommended definitions, standards, criteria, and maintenance of lists, such as NWSA recommended external reviewers/consultants

Material Productions: 
to maintain and develop materials (Frequently Asked Questions, Guides, resource materials, etc.) that are useful to Women's Studies Program Administrators and useful to NWSA in providing  incentives for institutional memberships

Mentorship: 
to maintain and develop materials, mentorships, training, workshops, and orientation sessions for Women's Studies Program Administrators

Monitor Program Needs: 
to maintain and develop ways for NWSA to better record and meet the needs of women's studies chairs, directors, and coordinators and their programs/departments and to suggest directives for the PA&D Advisory Council that will help set priorities and tasks to serve more effectively the institutional members of NWSA.

All Program Administrators of NWSA member institutions are eligible to run for office on the PA&D Advisory. The chair or co-chairs of the PA&D Advisory will put out a call for an election slate in March. The slate will be presented at the PA Business Meeting at the annual NWSA Conference. You can also be nominated from the floor of that meeting. Elections for committee members will be held every year at the PA Business Meeting. Candidates will be elected for two year terms. Only PA&D Committee members (i.e., administrators from NWSA member institutions) present at that PA&D Business meeting can vote. Candidates with the most votes will be elected to the PA&D Advisory Council. The chairs or co-chairs will make every effort to honor the representational requirements of the PA&D Advisory Council in the election process. 

All program administrators of NWSA member institutions are eligible to run for chair or co-chair of the PA&D Advisory Council. Nominees will seek the endorsement at the PA&D Business Meeting at the annual NWSA conference and will be elected by a general NWSA membership national ballot. The term for chair or co-chair is three years.