CAA News
February Board Meeting Report
At its meeting held February 24, 2008, the CAA Board of Directors reviewed annual reports from: the nine Professional Interests, Practices, and Standards Committees; the Awards for Distinction juries; the editorial boards; the vice presidents for external affairs, committees, Annual Conference, and publications; and the CAA senior staff.
Dennis Ichiyama, vice president for committees, presented third-year evaluations of three committees to the Executive Committee and the Board, with the recommendation that the committees carry out important work and should continue. The three committees are: the Intellectual Property Committee, the Professional Practices Committee, and the Student and Emerging Professionals Committee. The recommendation passed unanimously.
The Nominating Committee proposed the following resolution:
Whereas, the Board, by resolution on February 22, 2004, established the following criteria that the Nominating Committee should, in addition to the Committee’s charge in Article VII, Section 2 of the By-laws, take into account during the nominating process and subsequent deliberations for determining the final slate of candidates for election to the Board of Directors:
- Administrative/fiduciary responsibility
- Understanding how boards operate
- Overview of the field at large
- CAA experience
- Status in the field
- Passion for art
Now, be it resolved that such criteria be replaced as follows:
- CAA experience
- Previous administrative/fiduciary responsibilities
- Effective oral and written communications skills
- Demonstrated commitment to serve actively on the Board
- Overview of the field at large
- Previous experience with organizations and boards
- Professional profile in one’s own field, with the goal of representing and extending CAA’s diverse membership
The resolution passed unanimously.
New officers, serving one-year terms, were elected: Anne Collins Goodyear continues as vice president of external affairs; Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker is the new vice president for committees; Susan Grace Galassi continues as vice president for Annual Conference; Buzz Spector is the new vice president for publications; and Barbara Nesin is the new secretary. (CAA has posted their candidates’ statements.)
Ex officio appointments were also made: John Hyland, Jr., continues as treasurer; Jeffrey P. Cunard continues as counsel; and Andrea Kirsh, Katherine Manthorne, and William Tronzo are Board representatives to the Nominating Committee.
Nicola Courtright, CAA president, warmly thanked outgoing Board members Dennis Ichiyama, Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann, Duane Slick, and Edward Noriega for their dedicated service. Courtright was also honored with a commemorative certificate and thanked for her service as president by Paul Jaskot, president-elect, and Linda Downs, CAA executive director.