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 ...

Committees are commonly found in nonprofit organizations as governing boards or project-based volunteer committees. Some for-profit companies use committees to help the board or to manage ...

WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Charles Bolden held his first meeting with the restructured NASA Advisory Council this week at the agency’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif. Bolden has ...

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 ...

Since President George W. Bush proposed the establishment of a new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on June 6, the congressional debate in the Senate has largely focused not on how the ...

BRUSSELS — The European Parliament is planning to modernize the structure of its committees to keep pace with legislation emanating from the EU executive. Under the tentative plans, outlined in a ...

The European Parliament secretariat has prepared a ‘reflection paper’ – exclusively seen by Euractiv – addressed to political groups with concrete examples on how to reshape the Parliament’s ...

The Portland City Council this week spent five hours discussing the frequency of full-council meetings and the structure and content of its policy committees, but could not find consensus on a ...

Mayor Wayne Brown has announced changes to Auckland Council’s committee structure that will streamline decision-making and put the focus on delivering the new Long-term Plan (LTP). “Through the LTP ...