Elected Board Members Research Articles

Lambs of Sacrifice: Termination, the Mixed-blood Utes, and the Problem of Indian Identity

Lambs of Sacrifice: Termination, the Mixed-blood Utes, and the Problem of Indian Identity

Rural Superintendents’ Responses to COVID-19: Navigating Local Control During a Public Health Crisis

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted a variety of responses by organizational leaders throughout the United States and internationally. This paper explores the responses of five rural school superintendents who work in a conservative Midwestern state. Using an exploratory qualitative research design, the study analyzes interviews and documents collected remotely to adhere to current public health guidelines. The study adopted a crisis leadership perspective to explore how rural school superintendents were responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and managing the politics associated with it. Findings suggest that superintendents were acutely aware of their community’s current political stance toward the COVID-19 pandemic and were especially responsive to the individual political philosophies of their elected school board members. The superintendents did not uniformly adopt crisis leadership behaviors to respond to the circumstances created by the pandemic. Rather, superintendents responded in ways that managed the political perspectives held by their elected board members and sought to reconcile differences in the board members’ political perspectives that precluded action. As part of this reconciliation, the superintendents leveraged public health information to shape and at times change elected school board members’ perspectives. This information helped the superintendents overcome political perspectives that led some of the most conservative board members to resist widely accepted public health guidance. Implications for the field of educational leadership, research on rural superintendents, and potential revisions to superintendent preparation are discussed.

Pemilihan Umum Indonesia Antara Demokrasi Pancasila Dan Demokrasi Liberal

General election is a tools or facility in implementing democracy which is carried outdirectly, publicly, freely, confidentially, honestly and fairly. This is in accordance with the principle ofdemocracy, namely from the people, by the people, and for the people as mandated by Article 1paragraph 2 of the 1945 Constitution. The election is believed to be only as one instrument to encouragethe democratic process. Because the increase of mature democracy will reduce injustice and makepeople's lives more secure in their freedom and encourage the creation more a fair. However,democracy which is carried out through general election in Indonesia now adays is not democracy andthe general which is election very suitable for Indonesia. Indonesia has a democratic style mechanismand only exists in Indonesia. Indonesian democracy has been very clearly stated in the 4th principle ofPancasila, which is popularly led by wisdom in deliberation / representation. For this reason,awareness is needed by state leaders and elected board members to be able to understand and explorethe values and spirits of Indonesians style democracy. So that Indonesians democracy is getting closerto the spirit and body of Indonesias people.

Voting methods for director election, monitoring costs, and institutional ownership

Abstract We show that firms that employ the majority voting method for director election exhibit higher institutional ownership than firms that employ the plurality voting method, especially after the 2010 amendment to NYSE Rule 452. Firms that adopt majority voting in a bylaw or charter exhibit increases in institutional ownership and share price. These results are consistent with our conjecture that institutional investors favor companies with majority voting and investors react favorably to the adoption of majority voting because it reduces management monitoring costs by improving the accountability of elected board members.

Voting Methods for Director Election, Monitoring Costs, and Institutional Ownership

We show that firms that employ the majority voting method for director election exhibit higher institutional ownership than firms that employ the plurality voting method, especially after the 2010 amendment to NYSE Rule 452. Firms that adopt majority voting in a bylaw or charter exhibit increases in institutional ownership and share price. These results are consistent with our conjecture that institutional investors favor companies with majority voting and investors react favorably to the adoption of majority voting because it reduces management monitoring costs by improving the accountability of elected board members.

Pemilihan Umum Indonesia antara Demokrasi Pancasila dan Demokrasi Liberal

General election is a tools or facility in implementing democracy which is carried out directly, publicly, freely, confidentially, honestly and fairly. This is in accordance with the principle of democracy, namely from the people, by the people, and for the people as mandated by Article 1 paragraph 2 of the 1945 Constitution. The election is believed to be only as one instrument to encourage the democratic process. Because the increase of mature democracy will reduce injustice and make people's lives more secure in their freedom and encourage the creation more a fair. However, democracy which is carried out through general election in Indonesia now adays is not democracy and the general which is election very suitable for Indonesia. Indonesia has a democratic style mechanism and only exists in Indonesia. Indonesian democracy has been very clearly stated in the 4th principle of Pancasila, which is popularly led by wisdom in deliberation/representation. For this reason, awareness is needed by state leaders and elected board members to be able to understand and explore the values and spirits of Indonesians style democracy. So that Indonesians democracy is getting closer to the spirit and body of Indonesias people.

В России создана Ассоциация исследователей Гималаев и Тибета

On March 5, 2019, the Constituent Congress of the Russian Association of Himalaya and Tibet Researchers was held. The area is considered as natural territories and cultural space. Information is given on the goals and objectives of this organization. It is reported that at the congress it was decided to conduct only partial elections to the board of the association, leaving some vacancies for by-elections at the First Congress of the Russian Association of Himalayan and Tibetan Researchers in 2020. The material contains 9 unanimously elected board members, members of the audit and selection committees. The Association is open to all the Himalayas and Tibet researchers sharing their goals and tasks, regardless of their place of residence and affiliation.

The impact of public pension board of trustee composition on state bond ratings

The declining financial health of public pension systems is increasingly becoming a budgetary concern for many state and local governments. While the academic literature has identified several factors behind the growth in unfunded state and local public pension liabilities, there is mixed evidence on how the composition of a pension system’s board of trustees affects a pension’s financial health. This article contributes to this literature by measuring how public pension board composition affects fund financial health as measured by state bond ratings. With a panel dataset of state pensions between 2001 and 2014 our results indicate that elected board members are consistently associated with lower bond ratings (and thus higher borrowing costs) while appointed and ex-officio board members are associated with higher bond ratings. These results are robust to a number of specifications.

Examining the Foundation of AACP: Report of the 2015-16 Argus Commission

INTRODUCTION The Argus Commission is comprised of the last five presidents of the Association and it is typically charged to examine an issue that is very broad in scope. Recent charges included examining diversity in our applicant and faculty pipelines and the implications of big data across all the academic missions. In keeping with her overarching theme of foundations of citizenship President Boyle elected to ask the 2015-16 Argus Commission to focus internally and examine key aspects of the organization's structure and functioning (1). The original charges included the following: 1. Investigate and recommend assessments for the Board and AACP CEO to improve performance; 2. Recommend improvements for Board development processes and programs; 3. Complete the analysis and recommend enhancements in the AACP governance model to optimize opportunities for member/citizen engagement in the work of AACP; 4. Insure that an adequate succession plan for AACP executive leaders is in place and understood by all; 5. Recommend process attributes for the CEO five-year review to be completed by June 2017. The Commission met at AACP headquarters in October 2015 and completed work on 4 of the charges. The governance review required additional examination and occurred over the months following the meeting in a series of conference calls. In November President Boyle asked the Argus Commission to also review and recommend revisions to the Board's current conflict of interest policy and practices. BOARD ASSESSMENT The Argus Commission reviewed several resource documents describing assessment practices of various nonprofit boards. There was general consensus that implementing a process of annual board self-assessment represents a best practice in nonprofit board continuous quality improvement. That being said, the Argus Commission noted that the AACP board has operated at a perceived high level of functionality, including successful implementation of four new board positions following the last major governance analysis in 2006-07. Some different approaches to and potential pitfalls associated with board assessment were discussed. Two that did not seem to offer the right balance of information for the investment of time and other resources were an entrance interview as part of the nomination process and a formal assessment of every board meeting. Members of the Commission reflected that we should strive to keep the length of the assessment as reasonable as possible. Two forms of review were identified as worthy of further exploration. The first is an annual self-assessment using an instrument like the one recently released by the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) in collaboration with Board Source (2). An exploration of its cost suggested that it would be approximately $1,000 annually but more specific information on its use and the analysis (e.g., benchmarking) was requested. The second form of input on board performance is an survey to be administered to those completing service on the board. The Commission discussed the timing for administering an annual assessment and agreed that it should be sent after the annual meeting to all those serving on the board the previous year. The results would be summarized and disseminated prior to the fall meeting for discussion in an executive session. For those completing service in July there could be a couple of questions to be used as the exit survey. An initial discussion of the topic of board self-assessment was docketed to the February board meeting agenda. The recommendation will be to implement an assessment in July/August 2016 as a pilot to see how useful the results are and based on this determine if an annual process should be implemented. BOARD ORIENTATION AND DEVELOPMENT Commission members reflected on the changes that had been implemented in the last five years to improve the on-boarding and orientation of newly elected board members. …

SUNTA's Newly Elected Board Members

Anthropology NewsVolume 57, Issue 9 p. e182-e182 September Online Content SUNTA's Newly Elected Board Members Petra Kuppinger, Petra KuppingerSearch for more papers by this authorAndrew Newman, Andrew NewmanSearch for more papers by this author Petra Kuppinger, Petra KuppingerSearch for more papers by this authorAndrew Newman, Andrew NewmanSearch for more papers by this author First published: 02 May 2017 https://doi.org/10.1111/AN.172AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. Volume57, Issue9September 2016Pages e182-e182 RelatedInformation

Charting the Future of SPN: The SPN Strategic Plan

Charting the Future of SPN: The SPN Strategic Plan

Comparing Nonprofit Charter and Traditional Public School Board Member Perceptions of the Public, Conflict, and Financial Responsibility: Is there a difference and does it matter?

In this paper, survey data collected from nonprofit charter school board and elected public school board members in Minnesota is used to test three hypotheses relating to theories of New Public Management, democratic governance, and small group dynamics. We find that nonprofit charter school board members perceive lower levels of conflict, place less priority on the general public, and perceive a higher degree of governance responsibly in the area of financial management, than elected board members. We conclude that the increased use of nonprofit charter schools has potentially substantial implications on accountability and effectiveness in the delivery of public education.

Newly elected board members to take seats in Seattle

Newly elected board members to take seats in Seattle

The election process for the Board of Directors of the Metabolomics Society: call for nomination of new board directors

It’s election time! The International Metabolomics Society (www.metabolomicssociety.org) is a dynamic society, founded in 2004, and with a membership of almost one thousand scientists that is growing year on year. Historically, the primary activity of the Society has been to organize the premiere international conference in metabolomics each year, with alternating venues in North America, Europe and the greater Asia-Pacific region. While organizing this conference remains one of the most important events in the Society’s calendar, the Directors have recently put in place a range of other benefits and activities for its Members. The Society is led and managed by a Board of 13 Directors (http://www.metabolomicssociety.org/board_of_directors), consisting of leading metabolomics researchers from around the world, and which includes the three Officer positions of President, Treasurer and Secretary. The exiting Officers remain as part of the board for 2 further years to ensure a smooth transition of tasks and responsibilities. For operational efficiency, the Board devolves its daily activities across numerous committees and task groups. These include the Website & Communications Committee, the Publications Committee, a Membership Committee, a Conference & Training Committee and a Nominations & Election Committee. These committees typically consist of 3–6 board members. The task groups, such as the International Affiliation Task Group, the Industry Liaison Task Group, the Data Standards Task Group, the Metabolite Identification Task Group and the Society Strategy Task Group, each consist of a few board members and also have non-board participants from the community. Each Director commits to a term of 2 years to the board and the society. After that he/she has the option to stand for re-election for a second 2-year term. Around May/June each year the process for election of replacement Directors is initiated. In 2014, four current Directors will have their second term of duty finished and therefore will provide spaces for four new Directors to be elected. In addition, we have three Directors who will finish their first term and may stand for re-election. For the new positions available we are calling on our membership base to nominate outstanding and excited metabolomics research leaders who would be interested and have the time to be fully committed to serve on the Board of Directors of the Society. The Board is interested to have researchers nominated who are active in the metabolomics sciences and also who are keen and motivated to serve on the Board to develop and strengthen the visibility and viability of the Metabolomics Society further. The nominees also should be able to commit sufficient time to be actively involved in typically two of the Board’s tasks groups and committees, an average commitment of *2 h per week. The election process is driven and overseen by the Nominations & Election Committee, which consists of two Board members and two non-board Members who observe the process for transparency. Once the nomination process is finalized the Nominations & Election Committee will collect information from the nominees including a short biography and a statement of commitment which will be published on the Society’s website allowing the membership to select and vote for their preferred nominees. The voting process will finish in August each year. The Nominations & Election Committee then selects the nominees with the highest number of votes and invites them to become a Director. Beginning on October 1st, the newly elected Board members begin their term of office. U. Roessner Metabolomics Australia and Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, School of Botany, The University of Melbourne, 3010 Parkville, VIC, Australia

Victory for volunteerism? Scottish health board elections and participation in the welfare state

This paper presents findings from a multimethod study of pilot elections held to choose members of health boards in the National Health Service in Scotland. We begin by proposing that much current public involvement practice is dominated by a volunteerist model, in which members of the public with time and skills to offer play essentially supportive and non-challenging roles within health care organizations. This model contrasts sharply with the adversarial, political model of electoral democracy. Nonetheless, drawing on a postal survey of voters, non-participant observation of Boards, and semi-structured interviews with candidates, elected Board members and other stakeholders, we demonstrate that the introduction of elections did not overcome the volunteerist slant of current public involvement with health care organizations. Far from offering a ‘quick fix’ for policymakers seeking to ensure accountability of health care organizations, elections may produce remarkably similar outcomes to existing mechanisms of public involvement.

Section News

Abstract:For your convenience, this month's Section News PDF includes bookmarks for each section. After opening the PDF, select the “Bookmark” tab on the left side of your screen, and click on the name of the section you are interested in reading.American Ethnological Society (AES): Caitrin Lynch, ed. “New Editor of American Ethnologist”; “AES at the 2010 Annual Meeting”Anthropology and Environment Section (A&E): Terre Satterfield, ed.Archeology Division (AD): James M Skibo, ed. “2010 Spring Business Meeting Recap”; “Thomas McGovern and Colleagues Win 2010 Gordon R Willey Award”Association for Africanist Anthropology (AfAA): Jennifer E Coffman, ed. “Richard Werbner's Film Holy Hustlers” by Bennetta Jules–Rosette; “Looking Forward to New Orleans” by David Turkon and Maria CattellAssociation of Black Anthropologists (ABA): Bianca C Williams and karen g williams, eds. “Running the Fieldwork Race, Part One” by karen g WilliamsAssociation for Feminist Anthropology (AFA): Damla Isik and Jessica Smith, eds. “‘Welcome Back to the AFA” by Dorothy L HodgsonAssociation of Latina and Latino Anthropologists (ALLA): Luis FB Plascencia and Anahí Viladrich, eds. “Immiserization in Arizona—‘Attrition Through Enforcement’”Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA): Mona Bhan and Noelle Molé, eds. “A Tale of Two Indias: Keeping the ‘Emergent Economy’ Myth Alive” by Sarasij MajumderAssociation for Queer Anthropology (AQA): David L R Houston, ed. “Report from the Cochairs: AAA Elections Bring Change” by Maria Ochoa and Karen NakamuraAssociation of Senior Anthropologists (ASA): Paul L Doughty, ed. “AAA Retiree Dues”; “ASA Annual Meeting Session”; “Annual Business, Board and Member Luncheon”; “ASA Members Honored”; “ASA Book Announcement”Central States Anthropological Society (CSAS): Evelyn Dean–Olmsted and Angela Glaros, eds. “Student Paper Competition Winners”; “White and Dillingham Award Recipients”; “2011 CSAS Annual Meeting, Iowa City, IA”; “Member Research Spotlight: Chicago Urban Historical Archaeology” by Rebecca S Graff; “Member News”Council on Anthropology and Education (CAE): Steve Bialostok, ed.Culture and Agriculture (C&A): Ronald Rich, ed. “CAFÉ Anyone? New Editors for C&A Journal,” by Jeanne Simonelli and Bill Roberts and “New Book on Forestry and Governance”Evolutionary Anthropology Society (EAS): John P Ziker, ed. “Human Behavior and Evolution Society Meeting”General Anthropology Division (GAD): Luke Eric Lassiter, ed. “2010 Award Winners Named” by Christopher A FurlowMiddle East Section (MES): Yasmin Moll, ed. “Cultural Boycott: A Summary” by Rosi GreenbergNational Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA): Eva Friedlander and Tara Eaton, eds. “2010 SfAA Meetings in Merida, Mexico, March 24–27: A Brief Report” by Tim WallaceNational Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA): Keri A Canada, ed. “NASA Website Gets a Makeover” by Sheena Harris; “Call for Submissions”Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS): Stephen Lyon, ed. “Anthropology App”; “Grants, Fellowships and Bequeathals”; “Public Engagement”Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (SACC): Lloyd Miller, ed. “SACC 2011 in Omaha, Nebraska”; “Teaching Anthropology: SACC Notes—the Electronic Version”Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (SAC): Peter N Jones, ed. “Bringing Awareness to the Study of Consciousness”Society for the Anthropology of Europe (SAE): Deborah R Altamirano, ed. “Preview of the 2010 Program” by Elizabeth L Krause; “Interdisciplinary Collaborations in the Anthropology of Europe” by Tracey HeatheringtonSociety for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (SAFN): Alyson Young and Kenneth Maes, eds. “SAFN AAA–Invited Sessions”; “Other SAFN–Related Sessions in New Orleans”; “Between Sessions”; “Report on Food in Bloom Conference”Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA): David Kamper, ed. “Standing Up Against Racism” by Katja AntoineSociety for the Anthropology of Religion (SAR): Jennifer Selby, ed. “Message from the President” by Margaret WienerSociety for the Anthropology of Work (SAW): Angela Jancius, ed. “Old Anthropology in New Orleans” by Samuel Gerald CollinsSociety for Cultural Anthropology (SCA): Jean M Langford, ed. “Student Membership in SCA” by Michelle StewartSociety for East Asian Anthropology (SEAA): Jennifer Hubbert and Gordon Mathews, eds. “‘Introducing the Current SEAA Elected Board Members” by Jennifer Robertson; “Graduate Student Councilors”; “Councilors”Society for Humanistic Anthropology (SHA): Frederic W Gleach and Vilma Santiago–Irizarry, eds.Society for Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (SLACA): Annelou Ypeij, ed. “Ritual Encounters: Lived Experiences with the Power to Transform Society” by Michelle Wibbelsman; “Elayne Zorn, 1952–2010”Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA): James Stanlaw and Mark Peterson, eds. “Are We Teaching Too Much Spanish?” by James StanlawSociety for Medical Anthropology (SMA): Kathleen Ragsdale, ed. “Medical Anthropology and US Health Policy: A View from ‘Across the Pond’” by Rachel IrwinSociety for Psychological Anthropology (SPA): Jack R Friedman, ed. “Biennial Meeting of the Society for Psychological Anthropology, Santa Monica, CA, March 31–April 3, 2001”Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA): Jayne Howell, ed “Notes from the City” by Margaret Baurley and Dan BranstratorSociety for Visual Anthropology (SVA): Wendy Dickinson, ed. “Stop Just Pushing Play” by Jennifer Wolowic

4th German Conference on Chemoinformatics: 22. CIC-Workshop. November 9–11, 2008, Goslar, Germany

From the 9th to the 11th November 2008, the Chemistry-Information-Computers (CIC) division of the German Chemical Society (GDCh) has invited the chemoinformatics and modeling community to Goslar, Germany to participate in the 4th German Conference on (GCC). Almost 200 participants from 14 countries accepted the invitation making the event again one of the largest chemoinformatics conferences in Europe. The international symposium addressed a broad range of modern research topics in the field of computers and chemistry. The focus was on recent developments and trends in the fields of and Drug Development, Chemical Information, Molecular Modeling, Computational Material Science and Nanotechnology. In addition, other contributions from the field of Computational Chemistry were welcome. The scientific program included one evening lecture [K. Varmuza(Austria)], six plenary lectures [J. Bajorath (Germany), M.R. Berthold (Germany), R. Herges (Germany), S.M. Bachrach (USA), R. C. Glen (UK), M. Elstner (Germany)], 16 general lectures as well as 77 poster presentations. Traditionally, the conference started with a Free-Software-Session and the Chemoinformatics Market Place on Sunday afternoon right before the official conference opening at 5 pm. Numerous Open Source projects from the field of have been presented within the Free-Software-Session in the large lecture hall at the conference hotel 'Der Achtermann in Goslar. In addition two software tutorials have been provided in parallel within the scope of the Chemoinformatics Market Place: One software tutorial was provided by Xemistry GmbH covering some key technologies of their CACTVS application. In the second tutorial Chemical Computing Group offered insights into the new release of MOE. After the official opening at 5 pm and a short introduction of the 10 exhibitors the first day ended with a conference dinner and the evening lecture of Kurt Varmuza on Classification and Characterization of Materials – from Archaeometry to Comets. Besides the scientific program a special highlight of the conference was the FIZ-CHEMIE-Berlin 2008 awards on Monday afternoon. The CIC division awards this price each year to the best diploma thesis and the best PhD in the field of Computational Chemistry. The PhD price was awarded to Dr. Oliver Korb from the group of Prof. Dr. Thomas Exner, Konstanz for his dissertation Efficient Ant Colony Optimization Algorithms for Structure- and Ligand-based Drug Design. The award for the best diploma thesis has gone to Andreas Jahn from the group of Prof. Dr. Andreas Zell, Tubingen with the title Die Erweiterung des Optimal Assignment Kernel (OAK) um konformationelle Flexibilitat. Finally, after 4 years the old GDCh-CIC division board handed over the divisions concerns to the new elected board members during the conference. The success of the German Conference on is definitely a credit to the old CIC board and we want to thank the retired board members Christoph Steinbeck, Gregor Fels and Rainer Herges for their work and engagement. Pictures of the conference are available on the GDCh webserver: http://www.gdch.de/strukturen/fg/cic/tagungen/gcc_2008.htm

From Accreditation to Accountability

Except for the military, Americans devote more resources to education than to any other activity we undertake in common. Nearly 15% of all tax dollars support public schools. We depend on schools to narrow social and economic inequalities and to ensure that all youth contribute to the health of our democracy and the productivity of our economy. Americans generally agree that schools should produce graduates with a balanced set of abilities--not only in academic subjects but in their social skills and work ethic, the fulfillment of citizenship obligations, in physical and emotional health, in the arts, and in their preparation for skilled work. recent survey confirmed Americans' commitment to this balance (Rothstein and Jacobsen 2006). The public has a right to expect educators to pursue these ambitions competently and to spend effectively the funds entrusted to them for these ends. An effective accountability system requires youth development institutions to demonstrate to the public's satisfaction that they're pursuing goals established through democratic processes, by using the most effective strategies available. The design of such accountability has become the focus of public debates about education. The U.S. has adopted accountability policies based almost exclusively on standardized test scores. diverse and bipartisan coalition of Americans has bemoaned this policy (see A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education at www.boldapproach.org) because narrow test-based accountability plans can't possibly accomplish their stated intent--to tell the states and nation whether schools and related public institutions are performing satisfactorily and to indicate where improvements are required. Indeed, by creating incentives for educators to shift effort and resources away from other goal areas and toward instruction in reading and math exclusively, such accountability has undermined schools' mission to also raise achievement in other academic areas and in the social, behavioral, and civic goals. SCHOOL BOARDS AND ACCOUNTABILITY The United States has always had formal democratic accountability in education. Communities elect school boards, or mayors, who appoint superintendents who, in turn, appoint other staff and teachers to carry out policies set by the elected officials. Voters can and do re-elect or replace board members and mayors. But we've become skeptical that elected school boards can hold educators accountable for raising performance for all students in all states and localities. Partly, the dissatisfaction is unavoidable. As school districts grew, elected board members found it more difficult to judge whether schools were performing well. Most superintendents now supervise such large organizations that they can't themselves evaluate principals' or teachers' effectiveness. Elected board members, especially those on the first step of a political career ladder, may be more interested in burying bad news about schools than in correcting problems, and so they defer to educators' ways of doing things. The mere fact that school board members must seek a mandate from voters in elections has provided an inadequate assurance that boards will hold educators accountable for satisfactory student achievement. Yet, accountability for outcomes was the original inspiration for school boards. In 1642, the Massachusetts colonial legislature required town selectmen (councilmen) to check on parents and fine those who failed to teach their children to read and to understand both religious and secular law. Today, however, school board members spend virtually no time evaluating educational outcomes; most board time is devoted to administrative matters like buying school sites or approving insurance policies, addressing new state or federal regulations, or voting on employee compensation alternatives. Forgotten in this business has been a focus on the goals of education and a process for monitoring their achievement. …

Notes from the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dermatologische Forschung (ADF), Berlin, http://www.adf‐online.de

The 2007 Annual ADF Meeting is held in Freiburg/Breisgau, Germany, from 8 to 10 March 2007, and is hosted by L. Bruckner-Tuderman and her team of local organizers (C. Has, T. Jakob, S. Martin, V. Schacht, C. Schempp). We are looking forward to this year's guest lecture (on genodermatoses), given by J. A. McGrath, London. This lecture will be followed up in our traditional ADF workshop, which is devoted this year to the biology and pathology of the basement membrane (organizers: L. Bruckner-Tuderman, D. Zillikens, H. Hintner). The Günther-Goerz-Memorial-Lecture 2007 is given by E. Bröcker, Würzburg (‘My vision of melanoma in 2015’). Besides the chief ADF prizes (Paul-Langerhans-Preis, Egon-Macher-Preis), the ADF/ECARF-Award, the Translational Research Prize, the Dermatooncology Award as well as six poster awards and travel fellowships each, this year will witness the introduction of the new ADF/DDG-Research Fellowship. This is to be awarded at the meeting by the presidents of DDG (H. Gollnick) and ADF (K. Steinbrink) to a worthy winner chosen by a joint selection committee of DDG and ADF. The ADF is most grateful to the DDG for generously providing the necessary funds that have allowed the creation of this important new fellowship. The 2007 ADF ‘Quo vadis’ lectures, once again, are expected to provide thought-provoking, state-of-the-art perspectives in defined, important areas of investigative dermatology. At the Freiburg meeting, these will be given by M. Röcken (‘Biologics: risks of design’), M. Schön (‘Pathogenesis of psoriasis: farewell to T cells?’), C. Sunderkötter (‘Why vasculitis is fascinating’) and K. Scharfetter-Kochanek (‘Forever young – pathways to anti-aging?’). For the first time, one of the traditional satellite meetings of one of the most active ADF specialty working groups (‘AGs’), the satellite meeting of the AG Dermatoendokrinologie, will be organized from 3 to 7 March 2007 as an extensive joint meeting with the German-Endocrine-Brain-Immune-Network (GEBIN). All ADF members and guests are cordially invited to attend this satellite meeting, which will feature sessions on ‘Stress, behaviour, and immune function’, ‘Neuroimmunology in the CNS’, ‘Neuroendocrine network in psychiatric disease’, ‘Neuroendocrinology and immune function’ and ‘Peripheral neuroimmune interactions’ as well as an Educational Short Course. For programme details, see ADF website. At the 2007 Member Assembly in Freiburg (March 9, 17:30–19:15, Kollegiengebäude I, Aula, Werthmannplatz, Freiburg), three new members will be elected for the ADF Board of Directors, as Stephan Wagner, Jorge Frank and Ralf Paus are leaving the board, as laid down in the ADF statutes. One of the newly elected board members will also assume the function of ADF Associate Editor of Experimental Dermatology, while the previous ADF Associated Editor has been appointed as one of three Co-Editors of this journal, starting from January 2007. All ADF members are invited to submit to the new ADF Associate Editor (e.g. via the ADF office: info@adf-online.de) suggestions for important publications by ADF members that have recently been published in non-dermatological journals with an impact factor of >4 and which are recommended to be highlighted in the context of a future issue of these ADF News. As always, the ADF Board of Directors wishes to honour and call attention to selected outstanding papers of general interest that were recently published by ADF members in high-ranking non-dermatological journals. Such recent publications include, for example:

Members Choose Sharfstein As APA’s Next President-Elect

Back to table of contents Next article Association NewsFull AccessMembers Choose Sharfstein As APA’s Next President-ElectCatherine F. BrownCatherine F. BrownSearch for more papers by this authorPublished Online:19 Mar 2004https://doi.org/10.1176/pn.39.6.0001Steven S. Sharfstein, M.D.: “APA is. . .the most important voice to advocate for our patients and our professional values.”Steven S. Sharfstein, M.D., of Baltimore was chosen by APA members to be their next president-elect for the term beginning in May. He defeated Jagannathan Srinivasaraghavan, M.D. (Dr. Van), of Anna, Ill., with 66.5 percent of the vote.Sharfstein, who is currently APA’s senior vice president, is president of the nonprofit Sheppard Pratt Health System in Baltimore and clinical professor and vice chair of the department of psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He served as APA secretary from 1991 to 1995 and is a former APA deputy medical director.Srinivasaraghavan is professor and chief of the Division of Community and Public Psychiatry at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and medical director of the Choate Mental Health Center in Anna, Ill. He is also the Caucus of Asian-American Psychiatrists’ representative to the APA Assembly and a member of the Council on Social Issues and Public Psychiatry.Sharfstein told Psychiatric News that he plans to focus his presidency on advocating for patients and the profession of psychiatry, as well as on “the quality of what we offer to all Americans.” He exhorted other APA members to join him in this work and pointed out the need for nonmember psychiatrists to make APA’s voice stronger by becoming members.“APA is the premier professional organization representing psychiatric medicine and as such the most important voice to advocate for our patients and our professional values,” he said. “From our increasingly effective treatments based on the expanding science of psychiatry to public health and public policy, APA must lead for us all. Psychiatrists need to become more active in this advocacy role. They need to belong to APA and participate at the community, state, and national levels.”In one of the two three-way races in this year’s election, Carolyn Robinowitz, M.D., of Bethesda, Md., defeated Albert Gaw, M.D., of San Francisco and Patrice Harris, M.D., of Decatur, Ga., for the office of treasurer. Robinowitz, who won with 58.9 percent of the vote, is a private practitioner, a member of the Board of Directors of American Psychiatric Publishing Inc., and an APA delegate to the AMA House of Delegates.In races in which there are more than two candidates, APA uses a “preferential voting system” in which voters are asked to rank the candidates in the order in which they would like to see them win. If no candidate garners a majority on the first round of counting, the candidate with the lowest number of votes is eliminated, and the second-choice votes on the ballots cast for him or her are distributed to the remaining candidates. In the race for treasurer, Robinowitz won on the first round of counting.In the election’s other three-way race, Renée Binder, M.D., of San Francisco emerged as the winner of the trustee-at-large contest in the second round of counting with 58 percent of the vote. Her opponents were Jeffrey L. Geller, M.D., M.P.H., of Worcester, Mass., and Michael Vergare, M.D., of Philadelphia.APA members-in-training chose Daniel T. Mamah, M.D., of Washington University in St. Louis to be their next member-in-training trustee-elect. Mamah defeated John Kuzma, M.D., of the University of Iowa in Iowa City with 65.7% of the vote.Two of APA’s seven Areas elected a trustee this year. Roger Peele, M.D., was re-elected as the Area 3 trustee in an uncontested race. In Area 6 Thomas Ciesla, M.D., defeated Barry Chaitin, M.D., with 56.5 percent of the vote.The tenure of the newly elected Board members begins at the close of APA’s 2004 annual meeting in May. At that time the current president-elect, Michelle Riba, M.D., will become APA president. The 2004 election reflects for the first time changes made to the composition of the Board of Trustees since the Board voted to downsize itself in late 2002. The plan called for eliminating one of the two vice-president positions and combining the secretary and treasurer positions. APA voting members approved these changes in the 2003 election.Pedro Ruiz, M.D., who was elected for a two-year term in the 2003 election, is now APA’s sole vice president. Robinowitz, who was elected treasurer in the 2004 election, will become secretary-treasurer in 2005, at the end of the term of the current secretary, Nada Stotland, M.D.This year, there were 30,261 eligible voting members. Of that number, 31.1 percent, or 9,408, voted. Approximately 8 percent of those voting did so online.Detailed election results appear in the chart below. ▪ ISSUES NewArchived