As usual, on the day after the Senate meeting, the ICS Board held its annual meeting. The day started with a lively plenary session, discussing the best ways for ICS to further its public outreach, especially given our enhanced focus on research. Representatives of all stakeholders participated – Board, Senate, FICS, Faculty, Staff and Students. The session was organized to respond to a white paper prepared by Doug Blomberg, A Proposal for Expanding Public Outreach. The discussion focussed on integrating public outreach with what is happening at the Research Centre and with what is happening on the teaching and mentoring front. Lambert Zuidervaart gave a very practical example of a conference on social justice and human rights planned for spring, 2012 that brings together academics and practitioners in a meaningful way to discuss an important, timely and relevant issue. The discussion also addressed new electronic ways in which we can reach our audiences quickly and economically.
The business meeting of the Board endorsed the directions of such public outreach and ratified the actions of Senate as well as receiving reports on much good work done by ICS Staff and dealing with the budget and fundraising initiatives.
Several Board members are finishing second terms on the ICS Board: Co Vanderlaan of Edmonton, Kevin van der Leek of the Vancouver area and Bill Van Groningen of the Chicago area have each served six years on the Board. Many thanks for your ongoing faithful, active interest and support for the mission of ICS!
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