Committee on Race and Ethnicity   Jobs Manual

COMMITTEE ON RACE AND ETHNICITY (CORE)

A.     Committee Description & Membership

The PES By-Laws describe the Committee in section 1.8

“A Committee on Race and Ethnicity, consisting of five members, shall be appointed by the incoming President to staggered terms of three years. The Chair shall be appointed by the President in consultation with the committee members. The Committee on Race and Ethnicity will promote and support the study of race and ethnicity in philosophy of education.”

B.     Roles & Responsibilities of the Committee Chair

• The Chair role is a two-year appointment. (We try to keep ahead of the next transition so that we do not have to devote our meetings to leadership issues.)
• The Chair should delegate committee work responsibly so that each of the committee’s main responsibilities are fulfilled each year, with each member (including the Chair) contributing a reasonable and fair amount of work.

• Main responsibilities include: (1) convening and hosting the Breakfast Meeting at the PES annual conference; (2) developing the agenda for the Breakfast Meeting and requesting agenda items from the CORE membership a month in advance to ensure a complete agenda (3) ensuring that CORE hosts an annual summer study group and overseeing activities relating to the study group; (4) ensuring and overseeing maintenance of the Scholarship on Race and Ethnicity Database, which should be updated every academic year to reflect advancements in the field; (5) representing CORE at the annual Business Meeting, in front of the Executive Committee, and in other spaces as needed; and (6) encouraging submissions for the annual CORE alternative session, at least two months prior to the annual PES submission deadline, by requesting that a note be included in the PES newsletter and by soliciting ideas from CORE members.
• Secondary responsibilities have included, on an ad hoc basis: consulting with past CORE chairs on issues relevant to the committee; consulting with the Executive Committee on issues related to race and ethnicity that affect PES more generally; and consulting with other Committee chairs on issues related to race and ethnicity that affect their committees.

C.     Roles & Responsibilities of Committee Members

• Membership on CORE is normally a three-year commitment. Prospective committee members should assess whether they can reasonably expect to fulfill a three-year commitment.
• Within reason, members are expected to participate in all CORE meetings convened by the chair.
• To the best of their abilities, members who volunteer to join CORE are expected to fulfill any recurring and/or ad hoc responsibilities that have been agreed upon, in consultation with the chair, and in the interest of advancing CORE’s work, as presented in the section WORK OF THE COMMITTEE.