Vice Chair & Secretary Call for Nominations

The Political Communication Division will choose a new vice-chair and secretary during ICA elections this fall. Please send nominations and self-nominations to the nominations committee (Chair: Hernando Rojas, U of Madison, Wisconsin USA; Erik Albæk, U of Southern Denmark, DENMARK; Lilach Nir, Hebrew U, ISRAEL; Marko Skoric, Nanyang Technical U, SINGAPORE) by Friday, July 8.

To nominate yourself or another person, please send the name (with affiliation and contact information), a statement of support (limit 250 words), and the nominee's email confirmation of willingness to stand for election to the nominations committee email address: pcnominate@gmail.com

The committee will then contact each candidate, who must provide a goal statement and a short bio (limit 250 words) by Monday, July 25. The election takes place online in September and October, and ICA normally releases the results by the end of October.

*Vice chair. The new vice-chair will begin a two-year term of office at the conclusion of the conference in Phoenix next year. After receiving training and the materials from past program planners, the vice-chair will be program planner for the following conventions: London, UK, 15-19 June 2013, Seattle, WA, 22-26 May, 2014.

Election as vice-chair is a four-year commitment. After two years as program planner, during the term of office of Claes de Vreese as division chair, the vice-chair becomes division chair for the next two years (in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 2015; location TBA for the 2016 conference, but it will take place in Japan or Australia).

*Secretary. The secretary takes minutes at the annual meeting and helps generate material for the division announcement in the monthly ICA newsletter. The new secretary will begin a two-year term of office at the Phoenix conference next year and will continue for the following convention in London UK, 15-19 June 2013.

Please consider taking up this important opportunity and call for service to the division, by nominating either a colleague or yourself to become a candidate for vice-chair or secretary.