Dear members:

According to our charter, "An elected representative of the Executive Committee is deemed to resign his/her position when the said officer fails to vote in time in four (4) consecutive EC votes."

I’m sorry to say that our current EC representative from the African region has missed virtually all votes in the past year and has not responded to emails. I think it is time to declare the position vacant.

If there are other members from the African region who would like to fill this position on an interim basis until the Fall elections please let me know.

Being on the NCUC Executive Committee is really not that difficult. All it requires is that you attend to occasional decisions that need to be made in a timely manner.

These decisions include such things as: approval of membership applications, requests for funds, and occasional requests for comments. Typically, it takes about 5 minutes at most to review a membership application. You can engage in some discussion about it, but what it really requires is that you simply pay attention and respond in a timely way.

Although the time and effort required by these decisions is not that much, it is extremely debilitating to our work to sit in that position and not respond to requests for action. It literally paralyzes the constituency.