[FUN_Mail] SfN Governing Documents vote information

[Ramirez, Julio]

Yes indeed! Echoing Eric, thanks so much for the clarification, Amy Jo!

While we’re chatting about SfN business, I’d like to encourage FUN membership who are also members of SfN to consider nominating a colleague or yourself for a volunteer position at the SfN. Your experience and expertise are invaluable to the SfN and to the future of neuroscience!  Here’s the link to the nomination process:

https://www.sfn.org/about/volunteer/call-for-nominations

Happy Holidays, everyone!

Julio

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Department of Psychology & Neuroscience Program
Incoming Chair of the Neuroscience Training Committee
   Society for Neuroscience
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Very helpful clarification! Thanks, and happy holidays!

Eric Wiertelak

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On Dec 11, 2024, at 10:15, Amy Jo Stavnezer <AJStavnezer at wooster.edu> wrote:



Hi all,

For those of you who are also members of the Society for Neuroscience, you recently received email from them related to a Governing Document revision.  They are changing the Membership categories, and a few other things.



A FUN member raised a question related to this revision in our FFF last week – from the voting documents, it appears that the Student Membership category is being removed.  This was concerning given the already high membership and registration fees for SfN.  So, I reached out to the membership committee to ask.



Here’s what I received in response:

“We did not remove student membership. We still have the following student categories: Undergraduate, Graduate and Postdoc. The only change we made was removed the Affiliate membership, so all affiliates are now considered Regular members.

For further clarification, the changes to the Bylaws are completely operational:

  1.  The Bylaws will only define the larger member categories only (Individual, Sustaining Associate, and Institutional Program memberships).
  2.  This means then that the subcategories of Individual membership (Regular, Postdoc, Graduate Student, Undergraduate Student, and Emeritus) will be defined in the Resolutions to the Bylaws (Resolution 3)<https://www.sfn.org/about/what-we-do/bylaws/resolutions-to-the-bylaws>.”



I wanted to share this with you in case it influenced your vote (which is due by tomorrow at 5 pm (ET)).



Take care, best of luck grading and enjoy your holiday break!
Amy Jo



PS – we’ll be back on Jan 31 for the 2025 FFF season!





Amy Jo Stavnezer

Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology<https://amyjostavnezer.voices.wooster.edu/>

College of Wooster

Member, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience<https://www.funfaculty.org/>

Editorial Board, Journal for Undergraduate Neuroscience Education <http://www.funjournal.org/>



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