Committee on Professional and Member Relations

What We Do

The core mission of the Committee on Professional and Member Relations (P&MR) is to advance through Board-level policy recommendations the professional and economic interests and stature of ACS members worldwide. For more details, see the P&MR Information page.

Focus Areas

ACS Membership

• Society Membership trends, long-range and short-range plans and experimental programs

Industry Member Intiative

• Understand the industry members demographic
• What industry member problems are we trying to solve?

ACS National Awards

• Improving the efficiency of the Selection Process National Awards Advisory Board (NAAB)
• Understanding the National Awards from a Financial Perspective
• National Awards Sponsors and ACS Board Awards

ACS Fellows

• Strengthening guidelines and selection process

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Respect Advisory Board

• Align all stakeholders (Board, ELT, and AB) on DEIR strategy [with a series of joint workshops]
• Optimize structure and communication mechanism for strategy implementation
• Support development of DEIR courses and trainings
• Support governance and staff units in DEIR activities as SMEs
• Collect and respond to feedback from members and governance units on DEIR-related matters
• Routinely make recommendations to P&MR and the BOD on urgent DEIR matters

Learn more about the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Respect Advisory Board.

Enhancing Member Facing IT

• acs.org
• Enabling international chapters to nominate their members for ACS Fellows
• Volunteer Management
• Member Testing Activities
• Grants Management

Who We Are

The Committee on Professional and Member Relations (P&MR) is an eight-member Standing Committee of the ACS Board of Directors. Mr. John Katz is Staff Liaison.