Dear AAAFSC members:

We have two vacancies on our board for vice chair and member at large. Now more than ever, we need a dynamic and engaged AAAFSC board, and invite you to please consider running for the vacant positions of either vice chair or member-at-large.

Please review our by-laws and roles and responsibilities to ensure that you are able to fulfill the responsibilities of the role [link]. All positions are compensated with a stipend from the provost's office.

One member of our board, Soonhee Lee, has already expressed interest in running for vice chair. Please note that the vice-chair will have to step in for the chair in some duties for fall 2021 while she is on leave.

If you are interested in running for either of these positions, please send an email to tbhalla@umbc.edu with 1) your name, 2) board position preferences, and 3) brief bio expressing your interest in serving on the board, by Monday, April 12 at 5pm. 

To clarify on #2 above: Please indicate when you email if you would be willing to serve as a member-at-large, in Soonhee’s former position, if she was to be elected. That is, please indicate which position or positions you are open to serving in or have preferences for: ie, write, “I’m open to serving as: a vice-chair and/or member at large.”

We will send out the ballot via google form on April 13 and keep the ballot open until April 19.  

Many thanks,

The AAAFSC board: Tamara Bhalla (chair), Aditya Desai (member at large), Soonhee Lee (member at large), Shuyan Sun, (member at large), Fan Yang (secretary)