Association Operations Committee
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Association Operations Committee

Committee Charge

Objectives: This committee reviews association administrative issues, academic and external relations, governance issues, membership benefits, section relations, and financial resources.

Duration of Committee: Permanent

Committee Reports to: The Executive Board

Responsibilities:

  • Review new section and interest group applications and monitors continuing eligibility and membership numbers;
  • Respond to concerns about the structure of the AAA, especially the liaison between sections, committees, and the AAA administration and memberships;
  • Five-year review of all standing committees;
  • Reviews AAA member dues and benefits;
  • Reviews projects and initiatives of the AAA and the financial resources necessary to carry them out;
  • Reviews external relations of the association;
  • Reviews Association personnel policies that need action by the Executive Board.

Membership and Appointment: Six members of the executive board appointed by the AAA president to include the president or president-elect, secretary, and section assembly convenor.

Product: Written reports to the executive board

Meetings and Schedule: To be scheduled

Staff Liaison and contact information: Elaine Lynch, American Anthropological Association, 2200 Wilson Blvd., Suite 600, Arlington, VA 22201; Phone (703) 528-1902, Fax: (703) 528-3546.

  • Review Date: May 18, 2003
  • Review Body: Executive Board
  • Adopted May 18, 2003
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