Since President George W. Bush proposed the establishment of a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on June 6, the congressional debate in the Senate has largely focused not on how the ...
Committees are commonly found in nonprofit organizations as governing boards or project-based volunteer committees. Some for-profit companies use committees to help the board or to manage ...
ESA’s standing committees support the Society by providing leadership, oversight, programs. Committees operate at the intersection of the Governing Board, professional staff, and membership. Some ...
WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Charles Bolden held his first meeting with the restructured NASA Advisory Council this week at the agency’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. Bolden has ...
The ways that many board committees and task forces operate today no longer make sense, warn Peter Eckel and Cathy Trower. How do boards do it? The scope of work for most university, college and state ...
Portland’s transition to a new form of government last January brought new practices and procedures for the City Council. Among the largest changes, impacting both the Council and members of the ...
As was reported in the June 25 issue of C&EN (page 53), the ACS Board of Directors and the Council Policy Committee (CPC) in 2005 jointly appointed a Governance Review Task Force and charged it with ...
With the approval of a revitalized strategic plan in 2024, the American Chemical Society Board of Directors began an exercise in self-reflection. Part of this effort, which has continued in earnest in ...
A six-month experiment to increase input among residents on Cañon City government committees could soon be over. “If ...