Congratulations on being elected as a divisional officer, and thank you for your contributions to making the ASAC conference a success. Divisional officers are a significant part of building an event that encourages researchers to share perspectives and research and that renews relationships and connections within and across disciplines.
The keys to your success as divisional officers are to:
- Recruit widely for peer reviewers, paper submissions and attendees to participate in divisional activities
- Meet all of the deadlines noted in this document
- Manage your time and workload carefully
Please read through this entire Survival Guide, and note the responsibilities and deadlines associated with your particular position. The Guide provides guidelines for organizing your divisional program, policies and procedures, as well as additional activities and all deadlines. Please refer to the templates and forms library for additional resources, and reference the Division Executive Forum for announcements, FAQs and discussions.
1. General Information and Timeline
- Conference contacts
- Timeline + divisional deadlines
- Communicating with divisional members
- Divisional chairs council meeting
- Divisional annual meeting
- Divisional dinners
2. Submission policies
- Original Work and Authorship
- Commitments Regarding Attendance and Participation
- Multiple Submissions
- Academic Integrity
3. Call for Papers, reviewers and divisional speaker proposals
- Distribute the Call for Papers
- Distribute Request for Reviewers
- Assemble List of Reviewers
- Prepare Forms and Messages for the Review Process
- Divisional Speaker Proposals
4. Managing submissions and building the program
- Paper submission, receiving, monitoring, review and decisions
- Proceedings – inclusions, format, submission
- Awards
- Divisional program
- Follow up communications – presenters, reviewers, nominations
5. Divisional officer position descriptions
- Division chair
- Divisional editor
- Program coordinator
6. Document and Template Library
- Template communications, forms and documents to distribute to members, as referenced in the sections above.