Membership: Appointed by the President, with the approval of the Board.
Term: Term is for three to four years, with the possibility of renewal.
Succession: Normal succession is as appointed by a President.
Assistance: Editor(s) for individual monographs, editorial panel for individual monographs.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute time, effort, and knowledge to advance the objectives of the Board and attain the goals of the organization.
- Develop themes for the even-numbered monographs, in consultation with the Board.
- Attend (if possible) a portion of the AMTE Board meeting on Thursday before AMTE Annual Conference and one day during NCSM/NCTM Conference, as appropriate.
- Assist monograph issue editors in developing a call for manuscripts, getting it approved by the Board, and having it distributed to members.
- Serve as a reviewer, in addition to members of the Editorial Panel, of submitted monograph articles.
- Make monograph issue editors aware of the timeline for publication, process of developing a monograph from initial call to final submission of monograph to printer, and assisting them in completing the process, including editing as needed.
- Work as a liaison between the issue editors and the Executive Director on specific issues related to ISBN numbers, Library of Congress cataloguing, and selection of printer.
Annual Timeline of Duties:
January
- Submit report on monograph status to AMTE Board Representative prior to AMTE Annual Conference.
February
- Work with issue editors to develop a call for manuscripts for monographs for the volume to be published in the following year.
March
- Ensure that the call for manuscripts is uploaded on the AMTE website and distributed electronically to AMTE members.
June-August
- Review manuscripts submitted for publication consideration in the monograph.
- Provide templates for communications to prospective authors as needed.
- Provide assistance, as needed, to monograph issue editors to ensure that the process moves forward.
September-December
- Work with issue editors, as needed, to secure appropriate revisions to manuscripts that have been provisionally accepted, pending satisfactory revisions.
January – May of Second Year
- Work with issue editors, as needed, to edit manuscripts and prepare the monograph for publication. (Monograph should be ready to go to the printer by August 1 so that it is available for distribution to the membership by early September.)
Written Reports/Communications:
- Report of monograph status at each of the two annual Board meetings and during conference calls, as appropriate.
Board Representative Assignment(s): Board Member.
Board Representative Responsibilities:
- Keep monograph series editor informed of any Board policy changes related to monograph publication.
- Serve as committee advocate to AMTE Board for any issues that might arise.
- Maintain contact with and providing support to monograph series editor.
- Inform Board of Committee suggestions.
For more detailed information including a sample timeline of duties, please see pages 3 – 5 of the AMTE Leadership Handbook (4-17-10), which is located on the AMTE Website at: http://amte.net/about.