Academic Committee Members:

 

Connor Ayers
John Christison, CVE
Sean Daly
Timothy Demott
Lee Esckilsen
Gil Fried JD
Bobby Goldwater, CVE – CHAIR
Cora Hamm
Mercedes Hunt PHD
Gerald Kissel, Ed.D
Judith Long
David Lucier
Donald Luy
Michael Mahoney
Kent Meredith, CVE
Kathy O’Leary
Mauro Palmero
Jason Poppe
Brian Rogers
David Rowell, MFA
Frank Russo, CVE
Robert Stewart, CVE
Cheryl Swanson, CVE – VICE CHAIR
Steven Taylor
Cynthia Tucker
Alex Voss

Mission:

The committee represents the interests of the IAVM membership and provides academic-related content, activities and initiatives that can elevate, enhance and advance IAVM as a leading association. In addition, the committee endeavors to inspire and inform the future executives of the industry: undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students, aspiring professionals and young professionals in venue management.  The committee will provide support for educators involved in teaching venue, sports, entertainment, event and/or hospitality management, and will facilitate academic engagement within the industry and IAVM.

Structure:

This is a management committee, meaning it is constituted to meet regularly or on an “as needed” basis to provide content and input to staff to enable significant progress toward the Results Policies set by the Board of Directors.

1. Chair
2. Vice chair
3. The committee consists of Professional, Allied and/or Faculty IAVM members who are also representatives from higher education faculty, college administrators, textbook authors and others committed to serving the academic needs of IAVM.

The committee will be established in December 2019 and vacancies should be filled no later than September 1 annually.

Terms:

The chair, vice chair, and past chair each serve a one-year term. The incoming chair assumes the role at the conclusion of VenueConnect.

Committee members serve a term of one year, which may be renewed for up to four years of total service on the committee. Committee members serving as chair or vice chair are expected to serve additional terms to fulfill their obligations.

Volunteer Code of Conduct:

Be Considerate

You are working with others as a team so be considerate of how your actions or contribution affects your colleagues and the association as a whole.

Be Respectful

Treat other IAVM members, committee members and staff with respect in words, tone and action.

Be Available

Check your e-mails regularly and answer them promptly—even if it’s “I’ll get back to you.”

Be Honest

Sometimes the hardest thing to say is “no” or admit you’ve forgotten to do something. Be honest with each other and yourself with regards to what you say and what you can realistically commit to do.

Confidentiality

Volunteers are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of all proprietary or privileged information to which they are exposed while serving as a volunteer, whether this information involves a single staff, volunteer, client, or other person or involves overall association business. Failure to maintain confidentiality may result in termination of the volunteer’s relationship with the committee or other corrective action.

Roles and Responsibilities of the Chair and Vice Chair:

1. The chair will be responsible for ensuring the committee members are effectively engaged in order to achieve the mission and for leading committee projects and initiatives, will develop agendas and lead meetings, and will submit reports to the President/CEO and/or staff upon request.
2. The chair will actively seek input from committee members during meetings and conference calls as scheduled.
3. The chair will actively assign tasks to committee members as appropriate.

4. In the absence of the chair, the vice chair assumes the responsibilities of the chair as well.

Roles and Responsibilities of Committee Members:

Collaborate with IAVM staff to:

1. Contribute academic-related content as part of the Universities Committee sector’s venue-specific programming at Venue
2. Attend VenueConnect.
3. Watch the webinar “Good Governance is a Choice” based on the book by Randy Quinn and Linda Dawson.
4. Provide support and recruit industry professionals to assist educators regarding industry-specific topics and content in their courses.
5. Encourage support for and use of IAVM textbooks/publications and identify prospective contacts for sample distribution.
6. Work with IAVM staff to develop, if needed, smaller sub-groups to address a specific need.
7. Assist IAVM staff with efforts to create awareness amongst university students and faculty of the Certified Venue Professional and Certified Venue Executive designations.
8. Provide content for FM Magazine around academic-related topics.
9. Support JustOne, the annual leadership membership drive, by having individual committee / volunteer members work to recruit one new member.
10. Meet agreed-upon deadlines.
11. Participate in meetings via audio conference calls (assisted by HQ) as requested by IAVM President/CEO and/or staff. Each individual committee member should participate in 80% of the organized calls.
12. Each individual committee member is encouraged to write one or more blog post(s), champion local Chapter Meetings, write articles/content for FM Magazine and/or Encore.
13. Individual committee members will be evaluated by the chair as to attendance, participation and handling of assignments. This information will be reviewed by IAVM President & CEO to assess future volunteer leadership roles.
14. Chair will serve on Universities Committee as liaison to Academic Committee.

Roles and Responsibilities of Staff:

Collaborate with volunteer committee to:

1. Develop, monitor and achieve deliverable goals.
2. Manage all logistics, marketing and sales.
3. Meet agreed-upon deadlines.
4. Create session time within the Universities track at VenueConnect for academic-oriented programming.
5. Provide support as needed.
6. Other:
   1. Participate on all conference calls and/or meetings.
   2. Provide minutes to the committee chair within ten (10) business days of each conference call/meeting for distribution to the entire committee within twenty (20) business days.