Nominating & Bylaws

Nominations for the Central States Conference Board Positions, 2025

The Central States Conference is seeking nominations for the following position on its Board of Directors:

• Member, Board of Directors: Serves a 4-year term beginning April 1, 2025

See the next section below for terms and responsibilities of board members.

If you have suggestions for candidates for that position, which require dedicated and creative second language educators who are willing to dedicate time and energy to the work of Central States, please complete the form and provide supporting documentation at the link below.

• Candidates for Board positions must live or work in the Central States region

• Candidates must have previous experience as a participant in Central States programs and activities

• Both candidates and nominators must be Central States Advisory Council members at the time of nomination

Supporting documentation:

• If nominating somebody else: 

  • A nominator’s statement detailing the candidate’s qualifications

• If nominating yourself or if you were nominated by somebody else:

  • A nominee’s statement in support of this nomination detailing the reasons you believe you are qualified for this position.

  • The nominee’s professional biography (250 words maximum)

  • The nominee’s professional interest statement detailing the reasons they wish to run for the position (250 words maximum)

Deadline for nominations: December 15, 2024

2025 Central States Board Nomination Form

Composition. The Board of Directors shall consist of a Chair of the Board, Vice Chair, Conference Program Chair(s), Delegate to the ACTFL Board of Directors, Executive Director, Recording Secretary, and additional members to be no more than ten and as few as two.  Thus, the composition of the Board of Directors shall never exceed twenty. 

Responsibilities. 

The Board of Directors of Central States works throughout the year to support and promote the importance of language study throughout the Central States region. To that end, the responsibilities of elected and certain appointed members of the Board of Directors of Central States include but are not limited to the following:

• Attend the in-person board meeting at the conference location in September (travel on Friday, attend meetings Saturday-Sunday)

• Attend the in-person board meeting all day Wednesday preceding the conference in March

• Attend the annual Central States conference in its entirety (travel on Tuesday, board meeting Wednesday, conference Thursday through Saturday evening; head home anytime Sunday)

• Attend virtual board meetings in January and April in their entirety

• Attend the virtual Advisory Council meeting (preceding the conference) in its entirety

• Check Central States email account(s) regularly throughout the year, and daily as committee responsibilities and time-sensitive deadlines dictate

• Lead one committee and support the work of at least one other

• Continue committee work throughout the year as outlined in your committee’s monthly timeline

• Maintain a record of committee activities to include in your committee’s periodic reports

• Maintain current AC membership from the beginning with nomination through the conclusion of term

Terms.

•  Elected Directors must be members of the Central States Advisory Council and shall be nominated and elected by the members of the Corporation. Directors serve for staggered four-year terms. Unless other terms are specified in succeeding sections of the Bylaws, Directors shall begin their terms on April 1 following their election and shall hold office through the March 31 of the last year of their terms. 

Click here to access the Bylaws of the Central States Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.