Chair: The Chair shall be responsible for the general administration of the SIG, for ensuring that the SIG Bylaws are followed, and shall act as liaison between the SIG and AERA and the SIG and the SIG Executive Committee. The Chair shall preside at all meetings of the SIG’s Executive Committee and at the Annual Business Meeting. The Chair shall act as parliamentarian or shall appoint a SIG member to serve in that role for each meeting. The Chair shall appoint ad hoc committees as needed. Unless otherwise specified in these Bylaws, the Chair of the SIG shall appoint persons to assist officers, to chair committees or to carry out other work of the SIG.
Program Chair: The Program Chair shall be responsible for determining sessions, reviewers, discussants and chairs for the annual meeting along with sending acceptance and rejection notices to authors of submitted proposals. In addition, the Program Chair will act as Chair in the event of the absence of the Chair. The Program Chair becomes the SIG Chair in the succeeding year.
Secretary/Treasurer: The Secretary/Treasurer shall be responsible for managing and reporting on the financial accounts of the SIG and the safe keeping of all financial documents of the SIG.