This spring SPS will elect new Zone Councilors from Zones 8, 10, 11, 15, 16 and 18; and new Associate Zone Councilors from all 18 Zones. In addition, the position of Sigma Pi Sigma President will also be on the ballot. Consider nominating your most capable SPS members for Associate Zone Councilors, and colleagues who serve as SPS advisors for Zone Councilor or President of Sigma Pi Sigma... you may even nominate yourself!
The Associate Zone Councilor (AZC) must be a member of a SPS chapter. Elected for a one-year term, the duties of the Associate Zone Councilor parallel those of the Zone Councilor: communicating with chapters, encouraging and urging chapters to host zone meetings, attending zone meetings hosted by others, and keeping a polite thumb in the back of chapter officers.
The Associate Zone Councilor represents his/her zone at the annual SPS National Council meeting. This means that your nominee for Associate Zone Councilor must be a student member of SPS in 2012-13. The next Council meeting will be held November 7-11, 2012.
The Zone Councilor (ZC), elected for a three-year term, communicates regularly with all chapters about SPS interest in the zone and at the national level, reminds chapters of deadlines in the SPS calendar, and meets with individual chapters as time and resources permit. The Zone Councilor also encourages, keeps a polite thumb in the back of chapter advisors, and represents his/her zone on the National Council. The next Council meeting will be held November 7-11, 2012.
The Zone Councilor ensures that zone meetings are organized and held. This does not mean that the Zone Councilor organizes them him/her-self; it means that the Zone Councilor asks (and sometimes coaxes) chapters to host a zone meeting. If the Zone Councilor is a Sigma Pi Sigma member, then he/she may install new Sigma Pi Sigma chapters at a chapter’s invitation.
Sigma Pi Sigma President: elected for a two-year term, represents Sigma Pi Sigma and its members to the SPS Executive Committee and the Council. The President and provides liaison, together with the Director of the Society of Physics Students, between Sigma Pi Sigma and the Association of College Honor Societies.
In addition, the President serves as ex-officio to the AIP Advisory Committee on Physics Education, serves on the planning committee of the quadrennial Congress of Sigma Pi Sigma, and may be invited to officiate at the installation of new chapters of the honor society.
