Call for Nominations for WiG Vice President

Dear WiG Membership,

The Steering Committee announces the opening of nominations for Vice President/President-Elect of the Coalition of Women in German. Please consider nominating someone for this position or indicating your own willingness to be a candidate. Requirements for the office are listed below:

1. Current membership in WiG, with previous leadership experience in the organization (for example, as Steering Committee member, member of Newsletter or Yearbook staff, prize committee member, or Web Editor) and attendance of the annual WiG conference within the last seven years.
   
2. Tenure at her/his institution with senior rank (at least associate professor).
   
3. Institutional support (for travel to conferences, secretarial support).

Duties include:

• The Vice President serves for two years in preparation for assuming a two-year term as President.
• As VP she/he supports and advises the President and shares responsibilities for organizing/conducting searches (Treasurer, Yearbook coeditors, NL editor, Web Coeditor etc.); the VP shares other responsibilities as needed, such as facilitating communication between annual conferences and reviewing applications for the Zantop Graduate Travel Award.
  
• The Vice President is expected to attend the pre-conference Steering Committee meeting as well as the entire conference each year of his/her tenure as VP and President.

Procedure:

If you wish to nominate someone, you MUST first contact that person to make sure that she/he will accept the nomination, is in a position to fulfill the requisite responsibilities, and is willing and able to attend the requisite pre-conference Steering Committee meetings and conferences.

Once all candidates have been nominated to the Steering Committee, candidates will be asked to prepare a Candidate Statement which will be distributed to the Membership before on-line voting opens in June.

Please send names and institutional affiliation for nominees by May 31, 2010 to:

Denise Della Rossa (dellarossa.1[AT]nd.edu)
Rick McCormick (mccor001[AT]umn.edu)