NWSA PA&D STEERING COMMITTEE CONTACTS AND FUNCTIONS

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NWSA PA&D STEERING COMMITTEE CONTACTS:

NAME	EMAIL	PROJECT
Co-Chairs of PA&D Committee:
*Phyllis Baker Univ. of Northern Iowa	phyllis.baker@uni.edu	PA Co-Chair; AC Board Make-up & Elections
*Susan Shaw Oregon State University	sshaw@oregonstate.edu	PA Co-Chair; AC Board Make-up & Elections
Advisory Council Members:
Julie Amberg York College of Pennsylvania	jamberg@ycp.edu
Phyllis Baker University of N. Iowa	baker@uni.edu	Pre-conference Co-chair
Michele Berger UNC-Chapel Hill	mtberger@emial.unc.edu	WOCLP
Beth Bicky Goshen College	bethmb@goshen.edu
Karen Bojar Philadelphia Community College	kbojar@ccp.edu kbojar1@verizon.net
Ann Burnett North Dakota State Univ.	ann.burnett@ndsu.edu
Jill Bystydzienski Iowa State University	bystydj@iastate.edu	Study Abroad
Mary Carruth University of Mississippi	carruth@olemiss.edu
Annalisa Castaldo Widener University	acastaldo@mail.widener.edu	Pre-Conference Co-Chair
Karen Dugger Towson University	kdugger@towson.edu	Service Learning
Betsy Eudey Cal State Univ. Stanislaus	beudey@csustan.edu	Career Development & Digital NWSA
Judith Grant Ohio University	Grantj1@ohio.edu	Research Methodologies
Catherine Hoyser St. Joseph’s College	choyser@sjc.edu	K-12 Curriculum
Vicki Kirsch George Mason Univ.	vkirsch@gmu.edu
Pat Millhoff Univ of Akron	millhof@uakron.edu	Sarah Whaley Prize Comm. Rep
Amy Rutstein-Riley Lesley College	arutstei@lesley.edu
*Susan Shaw Oregon State University	sshaw@oregonstate.edu	PA Co-Chair; AC Board Make-up & Elections
Kathleen Underwood Grand Valley State University	underwok@gvsu.edu	WS as Scholarly Field
Jean Van Delinder Okalahoma State Univ	jean.van_delinder@okstate.edu
Barbara Scott Winkler Southern Oregon University	winklerb@sou.edu	WS as Scholarly Field
(* Designates Co-Chairs)

FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PA&D STEERING COMMITTEE

Each member of the PA&D Steering Committee 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 Steering Committee sets a priority of goals and realistic projects (both short-term and long-term) for their work on the PA&D Steering Committee.

DESCRIPTIONS OF FUNCTIONS and RESPONSIBILITIES:
Responsibilities of the Co-Chairs:
1. Coordinate PA&D Steering Committee functions but not run them,
2. Represent the PA&D Committee and Steering Committee 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 Steering Committee,
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 Steering Committee for members of the PA&D Committee, the PA listserve, PA&D Website, NWSA Governing Council, and other media; to develop more effective networks for Women's Studies / gender 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 / Gender Studies departments and programs 

Grants and Partnering: 
to search for grants appropriate for women's studies/ gender studies; to assist various Women's Studies/ gender 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 / gender 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 / gender 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 / gender studies Program Administrators

Monitor Program Needs: 
to maintain and develop ways for NWSA to better record and meet the needs of women's studies / gender studies chairs, directors, and coordinators and their programs/departments and to suggest directives for the PA&D Steering Committee 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 Steering Committee. The chairs or co-chairs will make every effort to honor the representational requirements of the PA&D Steering Committee in the election process. 

All program administrators of NWSA member institutions are eligible to run for chair or co-chair of the PA&D Steering Committee. 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.