SIGMAA on Statistics and Data Science Education Charter
Article V. Officers
- Section 1.The Executive Committee of this
SIGMAA is composed of the Chair-Elect, Chair,
Past-Chair, Secretary-Treasurer, and Program Chair, all
elected officers. The Webmaster is an appointed officer.
The Chair-Elect/Chair/Past-Chair will serve for a three
year term, with one year in each office. The
Secretary-Treasurer and Program Chair will serve
staggered two-year terms. Terms will start at the beginning of January.
- Section 2 Duties of
officers:
- The Chair will preside at
SIGMAA meetings, will organize and direct the
activities of the group, will serve as liaison with
the MAA administration and with other organizations
that work with statistics and data science education, and will be the
chief spokesperson for the SIGMAA. In this last
capacity the Chair will communicate with members
through the email listserve and through the web page
to keep members apprised of SIGMAA activities. The
Chair also appoints the Webmaster.
- In addition to assisting the Chair, the
Chair-Elect will serve as the Nominations
Officer, working with the rest of the Executive
Committee to select a slate of candidates for the two
offices (Chair-Elect and either Secretary-Treasurer or
Program Chair) open in any year. The Chair-Elect
will solicit suggestions and volunteers for serving as
officers from the membership
- The Secretary-Treasurer
will keep a record of the affairs of the SIGMAA,
handle correspondence, and submit written reports to
the MAA as required, and will be responsible for all
finances of the SIGMAA and for preparation of
financial reports as required
- The Program Chair
will solicit proposals for sessions such as
contributed paper sessions and minicourses at
MathFest, as well as other workshops,
conferences, etc., from the SIGMAA membership. The
program chair will also submit the proposals for
sessions that are to be part of the MAA scientific
program at MathFest via MAA’s online
proposal submission system by the posted deadlines.
The program chair will arrange sessions at MathFest
that are directed primarily at the SIGMAA
membership, such as guest lectures and business
meetings, by contacting the MAA associate
secretary.
- The Webmaster will be
responsible for maintenance and updates to the SIGMAA
website.
- Section 3. Elections, Appointments, and
Terms of Office
- a. The chair, chair-elect, and past-chair will
serve for one year in each office. The program chair
and secretary-treasurer will each serve a two-year
term. The program chair will be elected in even years,
while secretary-treasurer will be elected in odd
years. It will be necessary for either the first
program chair or the first secretary-treasurer to
serve a one year term, depending on the year of
charter. Terms will start at the beginning of January.
- b. A Nominating Committee will consist of the
chair-elect and two SIGMAA members appointed by the
SIGMAA Executive Committee. The Nominating Committee
will solicit suggestions and volunteers for office
from the membership and then select a slate of one or
more candidates for office open in any given year
- c. Election of officers will take place by electronic
ballot of the membership. By October 1, the MAA will
distribute to the SIGMAA members instructions for
voting, and voting must be completed by October 31.
The electronic ballot will indicate that write-in
votes are permitted. The winner will be the
candidate receiving the most votes. Ties will be
broken by a fair, unbiased random process supervised
by the MAA.
- If fewer than 20
members vote, the current officers will remain in
office until further deliberate actions are taken
to achieve a quorum (see section V.1 for the
definition of quorum.)
- Note: The use of
the term "electronic" throughout this document
will be understood to refer to any widely accepted
form of electronic communication, such as e-mail,
internet chat or call, web-conferencing,
web-surveying, discussion board, etc.
- d. Should an
office other than chair become vacant midterm, the
SIGMAA Executive Committee, in consultation with the
most recent Nominating Committee, will appoint a
member of the SIGMAA to fill that office for the
remainder of the term of office.Should the
office of chair become vacant midterm, the SIGMAA
Executive Committee will appoint a member of the
SIGMAA Executive Committee to fill the office of
chair for the remainder of the term. Should this
appointment in turn create a vacant office, the
SIGMAA Executive Committee will fill the vacant
position according to the rules just given.
- e. The
Webmaster is an appointed position, with a fixed
term of 2 years and reappointment possible.