Charge
The Committee is responsible for monitoring and maintaining the AAA Pilot Region Strategic Plan, which includes:
- Approving and monitoring strategic initiatives for pilot regional services which inform, and are informed by, the overall AAA Strategic Plan.
- Assisting with cultivating strategic relationships with AAA communities, groups, and other organizations to maximum mutual long-term benefit.
- Monitoring the governance and operations of pilot regions, and approving the creation of pilot region policies when necessary, with the purpose of making the pilot region volunteer’s experience, and the meeting attendee’s experience, valuable ones.
- Encouraging the creation of proposals from pilot region program leaders for innovations at pilot region meetings, and evaluating for approval all such proposals.
Membership
- The Committee shall consist of 17 members:
- The President and Past President of each Pilot Region, each of whom shall serve a two-year term (beginning in the year he/she is President) beginning in May;
- Three members appointed by the Management Team, each representing one or more key sub-communities in the pilot regions, each of whom shall serve two-year terms beginning in May;
- The Director–Focusing on Segments, serving a three-year term beginning in September;
- Three members of the AAA Professional Staff, appointed annually by the Executive Director;
- The Director–Focusing on Segments and one of the appointed members of the AAA Professional Staff shall co-facilitate all Committee meetings.
Meetings
- Meetings of the committee or its sub-committees or task forces may be scheduled in person or by teleconference.
Responsibilities
- Fulfill the committee charter above.
- If the Chair has any questions about the charge or responsibilities of this committee, s/he should contact the Executive Director, the President, or the committee’s Board of Directors Liaison.
- The Facilitator will have the opportunity three times every term-year to prepare and send a progress report which will be available for the Board of Directors to review at their next meeting. This report should include accomplishments and suggested modifications and should be sent to the AAA President, the committee's Board of Directors Liaison, and Governance Manager, Barbara Gutierrez (barbara.gutierrez@aaahq.org).
Members
Name / Affiliation | Contact | Pilot Region Affiliation | Term Length | Term Expires |
Facilitator Director–Focusing on Segments Pat Poli Fairfield University | ppoli@fairfield.edu | NE | 3 | 04/2018 |
Shaokun (Carol) Yu Northern Illinois University MW President | shaokunyu@niu.edu | MW | 2 | 04/2018 |
Natalie Churyk University of Northern Illinois MW Past President | nchuryk@niu.edu | MW | 2 | 04/2017 |
Timothy J. Rupert Northeastern University NE President | t.rupert@neu.edu | NE | 2 | 04/2018 |
Yvette Lazdowski University of New Hampshire-Manchester NE Past President | yjlazdowski@mail.plymouth.edu | NE | 2 | 04/2017 |
Amal Said University of Toledo OH President | amal.said@utoledo.edu | OH | 2 | 04/2018 |
David Stott Ohio University OH Past President | dstott@ohio.edu | OH | 2 | 04/2017 |
Maria Leach The University of Southern Mississippi SE President | maria.leach@usm.edu | SE | 2 | 04/2018 |
Don Ariail Kennesaw State SE Past President | dariail1@kennesaw.edu | SE | 2 | 04/2017 |
Sara Kern Gonzaga University WE President | kern@gonzaga.edu | WE | 2 | 04/2018 |
David G DeBoskey San Diego State University WE Past President | deboskey@mail.sdsu.edu | WE | 2 | 04/2017 |
Scott Fleming West Virginia University | scott.fleming@mail.wvu.edu | Representative of key sub- community in the pilot regions | 2 | 04/2018 |
Karen Osterheld Bentley University | kosterheld@bentley.edu | Representative of key sub- community in the pilot regions | 2 | 04/2018 |
Cathy Scott Navarro College | cathy.scott@navarrocollege.edu | Representative of key sub- community in the pilot regions | 2 | 04/2018 |
Julie Smith David AAA Chief Innovation Officer | Julie@aaahq.org | | | |
Erlinda Jones AAA Senior Director, Meetings and Programs | Erlinda@aaahq.org | | | |
Board of Directors Liaison Director–Focusing on Segments Pat Poli Fairfield University | ppoli@fairfield.edu | NE | 3 | 04/2018 |