The Portland City Council adopted a new committee structure in February after a year’s worth of complaints from councilors that the prior model of eight committees was unsustainable. The new structure ...

The ways that many board committees and task forces operate today no longer make sense, warn Peter Eckel and Cathy Trower. How do boards do it? The scope of work for most university, college and state ...

ESA’s standing committees support the Society by providing leadership, oversight, programs. Committees operate at the intersection of the Governing Board, professional staff, and membership. Some ...

As was reported in the June 25 issue of C&EN (page 53), the ACS Board of Directors and the Council Policy Committee (CPC) in 2005 jointly appointed a Governance Review Task Force and charged it with ...

With the approval of a revitalized strategic plan in 2024, the American Chemical Society Board of Directors began an exercise in self-reflection. Part of this effort, which has continued in earnest in ...

Portland’s transition to a new form of government last January brought new practices and procedures for the City Council. Among the largest changes, impacting both the Council and members of the ...