The names of an appropriate number of persons who are willing to accept leadership responsibilities as members of the unit s steering committee. Submissions received via email will not be accepted. A proposal is your opportunity to make the case for the new program unit to the Program Committee. While writing the proposal it is important to realize that the Program Committee expects a well-developed document that substantiates the proposed unit s purpose. In addition, proposals should include discussion of the methodology, scope, and directions the unit might take during its tenure.
Statistics regarding attendance are of particular interest.
In Annual Meeting programming this commitment will be carried out to the degree that each unit works to accomplish it. Thus, unit chairpersons, steering committees and participants in sessions provide the testing arenas for evaluating our success in adhering to this commitment. The Program Committee will include attention to this policy and practice in evaluating proposals for starting or continuing program units. The Program Committee s freedom to approve new program units is curtailed by the exigencies of time and space. Short of a major revision of the meeting s time, place, and length, the Program Committee reviews more good ideas than can be accommodated.