2024-2025 New Faculty Consortium Committee


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Charge


Plan and hold the New Faculty Consortium in accordance with established AAA policies. Specifically:

  • Review previous Committees' reports and other important background material.
  • Arrange for the conduct and administration of the consortium.
  • Assure a diversity of topics and speakers for the program to match the diversity of attendees.

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 committee meets at the discretion of the Chair.
  • The next New Faculty Consortium will be held January 30-February 2, 2025

Responsibilities

  • To fulfill the Committee charge as above.
  • The Chair must submit at least one report per year to the Board of Directors by June 30. 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

Name / Affiliation

Contact

Term Length

Term Expires

Chair
Helen Brown
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark


hbliburd@business.rutgers.edu

 
1

 
08/2025

Chair Elect
Allen Blay
Florida State University


ablay@business.fsu.edu

 
1

 
08/2025

Past Chair
Michael Kimbrough
University of Maryland-College Park


mkimbrou@umd.edu

 
1

 
08/2025

Stephen Lusch
University of Kentucky

stephen.lusch@uky.edu

2

08/2025

Dahlia Robinson
University of South Florida

dmrobinson@usf.edu

3

08/2025

Nathan Goldman
North Carolina State University

ncgoldma@ncsu.edu

3

08/2026

Andrea Roberts
University of Virginia - McIntire

aar5u@virginia.edu

3

08/2027

Valentina Zamora
Seattle University

zamorava@seattleu.edu

3

08/2027

Christopher Agoglia
University of Massachusetts Amherst

cpa22@isenberg.umass.edu

4

08/2028

Board of Directors Liaison
Audrey A. Gramling
Oklahoma State University
2024-2025 AAA President


audrey.gramling@okstate.edu


1


08/2025

Professional Staff Liaison
Beverly Collins
Director, Special Projects

 

beverly@aaahq.org