2022-2023 Doctoral Consortium Committee

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Charge

Plan and hold the annual AAA/Deloitte/J. Michael Cook Doctoral Consortium. The Consortium should provide a forum for stimulating participating doctoral students to pursue research in significant subject areas. Specifically:

• The Committee will plan an informal orientation meeting, large-group presentations, small discussion groups, and informal lounge sessions conducive to relaxed discussions among students and faculty.

Membership

• New Committee members are appointed prior to the Annual Meeting by the AAA Management Team.
• The committee consists of nine members, including the Chair, Chair-Elect and Past Chair, serving staggered three-year terms.
• Three committee members constitute the leadership group -- a Chair, Past Chair, and Chair-Elect.
• One new committee member each year is named Chair-Elect by the AAA Management Team and this person serves one year each as Chair-Elect, Chair, and Past Chair of the committee (a three-year term in all).

Meetings

• The Doctoral Consortium is held in the summer, but at a different time than the Annual Meeting.
• The Doctoral Consortium will be held June 14-17, 2023.
• Committee meetings will be scheduled at the discretion of the Chair. 

Responsibilities

• To fulfill the committee charge as above.
• The Chair must submit at least one report per year to the Board of Directors. The report should include an overview of highlights of the event, a description of the program and list of participants, actual expenditures compared with the budget and the effectiveness of the program as evaluated by the Chair or Co-Chairs, Faculty, and the student participants. The report should be sent to the AAA President, the committee’s Board of Directors Liaison, and Governance Manager, Barbara Gutierrez (barbara.gutierrez@aaahq.org)
• If the Chair has any questions about the charge or responsibilities of this committee, s/he should contact the Chief Executive Officer, the President, or the committee’s Board of Directors Liaison.

Members