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PMN STRATEGIC PLANNING IS TAKING PLACE!

Do you have ideas about PMN's mission and priorities?  Would you like to help shape PMN's future?  

Are you willing to be part of our Strategic Plan Working Group?

From 10 to 15 PMN members are needed to volunteer for this important and exciting opportunity.

Between June 1st and September 15th, there will be up to six strategy sessions -- no more than 18 hours in total.  To ensure continuity, if you are selected, you will be expected to attend most (if not all) sessions.

A professional facilitator, Dr. Joan Straumanis, will guide our work.  Joan has a wealth of experience working with organizations ... and she's a dues-paying PMN member, too!


Joan Straumanis has been a high school teacher, college professor, dean at three colleges and president of two. She has also served as a program director at two Federal agencies, the U.S. Department of Education (FIPSE: the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education), and the National Science Foundation, where she managed basic research on neuroscience and learning.

She was a founder of women's studies as an academic discipline, and pioneered legislation protecting sexual assault counselors and victims. In the late 1980s she was a member of the small group that founded Project Kaleidoscope with Jeanne Narum, and throughout her career has been active in promoting curricular reform and the use of active and interactive pedagogies in natural science and health science education. In recent years she has served as public member on the boards accrediting education for pharmacists and Registered Dietitians. She is also a member of the boards of the Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions (representing medicine, nursing and pharmacy), and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacies Commission on Credentialing.

Joan holds degrees from Antioch College (B.A.), the University of Colorado (M.A.) and the University of Maryland (Ph.D. in philosophy). She is currently a consultant for higher education and other nonprofits.


BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

Antioch College Alumni Association, 2016 – present.
Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics & Information Management, public member, 2016 – present; Finance Committee.
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists, Commission on Credentialing, public member, 2014 – 2017.
Alliance for Continuing Education in the Health Professions, public member, 2014 – 2017; Governance Committee, Quality Improvement in Education panel.
Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics, public member, 2011 – 2018; Standards Committee.

Association of American Colleges and Universities, Peer Review (journal), 1999 – present.

Howard University
Institutional Biosafety Committee, public member, 2012 – 2013.
Ad hoc committees to investigate allegations of scientific misconduct in the Medical School, public member, 2011 – 2013.
Institutional Review Board, public member, 2011 – 2013.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
ACLU of Virginia, 2011 – 2013; Ad Hoc Governance Committee, chair; Development Committee.
ACLU of Northern Virginia, 2010 – 2013.
ACLU of the Lehigh Valley, 1996 – 1999.
ACLU of Florida (State and Local), 1986 – 1991.
Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education, public member, 2004 – 2010.
Bluestem Communications (formerly Biodiversity Project), Chicago, IL 2007 – 2009.
Great Lakes Colleges Association, 2002 – 2004.
National Commission on Cooperative Education, 2002 – 2004.
Ohio Foundation for Independent Colleges, 2002 – 2004; Finance Committee.

INTART Foundation (promoting contemporary Russian art), 2000 – 2002.

Museo Fondo Del Sol (art museum), Washington, DC, 2000 – 2002.

National Academy of Engineering, Forum on Diversity in the Engineering Workforce, 2000 – 2002.

SMART Discovery Center (science museum), Bethlehem, PA, 1995 – 1997.

Orlando Science Center (science museum), 1991 – 1992.

Northwest Area Foundation, Education Advisory Committee, St. Paul, MN, 1983 – 1986.
University of Maryland–College Park, Student-Faculty Advisory Board, founding chair, 1969 – 1970.


If you are interested in volunteering for the Strategic Plan Working Group, please send an email to the Steering Committee Chair, Chris Owens no later than May 11th.  Put "SPWG" in the subject line and answer (briefly) these four questions:

1.  From your perspective, what is the purpose of "strategic planning"? (There is no "correct" or preferred answer to this question.)

2.  Have you had previous experience with any strategic planning work?  (Previous experience is NOT required, but we need to know who has any.)

3.  From your perspective, please identify PMN's two greatest strengths and its most significant weakness or weaknesses.

4.  Five years from now, what would PMN be like if you could make changes now?

Current list of individuals interested in participating as SPWG members (selection is not guaranteed)

Sumit your self-nomination email no later than Monday, May 11, 2026.  Thank you!

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