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July/August 2012 Volume 40 • Number 6 • July/August 2012 The Results of 2012 Election Are In nnette Lareau, Lareau will be a member Members also elected four inside AUniversity of of the ASA Council, which new Council Members-at-Large: Pennsylvania, has governs the association Stephanie A. Bohon (University of been elected the 105th and its policies, and its Tennessee); Kelly A. Joyce (College New MCAT Emphasizes President of the American chair in 2013-2014. She of William and Mary); Dina G. 4 Social Foundations of Sociological Association will also be a member of Okamoto (University of California- Health and Disease (ASA) for 2013-2014. the ASA Committee on Davis); and Jane Sell (Texas A&M Brian Powell, Indiana the Executive Office and University). Also elected were two The new MCAT reflects a University, has been Annette Lareau Budget (2013-2015) and members of the Committee on growing appreciation for the elected Vice President the 2014-15 Publications Publications, six members of the importance of behavioral for 2013-2014. Lareau Committee. Committee on Nominations, and and social science and Powell will assume ASA Members elected four members of the Committee on understanding when their respective offices Mary Romero of Arizona Committees. practicing medicine. in August 2013, follow- State University as the In announcing the results of the ing a year of service as Secretary-Elect. Romero election, Secretary Catherine White 5 Tukufu Talks History President-elect and Vice will take office as Secretary- Berheide and Executive Officer Sally Detectives President-elect. Lareau Elect in August 2012 and T. Hillsman extended their heartiest Tukufu Zuberi offers his will chair the 2014 Brian Powell will overlap with cur- congratulations to the newly elected advice on communicating Program Committee that rent Secretary, Catherine officers and committee members sociology and discusses his will shape the ASA Annual Meeting Berheide, for one year. In August and their appreciation to all ASA popular television show. program in San Francisco, August 2013 she will start a three-year term members who have served the 16-19, 2014. As ASA President, as Secretary. Continued on page 6 An American Sociologist 7 in Armenia Sociologist details her experience as an Wheel Utopias: Denver’s Urban Transitions Interested In an International Scholar in Seen by Bicycle ASA Leadership Armenia. Lucy Dwight and Joshua Goode, nated with the 2008 Democratic Position? University of Colorado-Denver National Convention when Should Every Sociologist Michael R Murphy, Director, Governance 8 ho knew that bicycles were con- volunteers and bike advocates and Information Systems Blog? used bicycles for transportation as Blogging: is it an important Wtroversial? In 2010, Colorado ven though the 2013 election is gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes part of an initiative to “green” the part of a young scholars convention. After the convention, a E11 months away, the nomination development? opposed efforts to and selection process to identify implement a bike- candidates begins now. sharing program in During the upcoming Annual ASA Welcomes Eight Denver, linking his 10 New MFP Fellows Meeting in Denver, the Committee opponent, then- on Nominations will spend one Eight new Fellows comprise mayor of Denver John entire day of the meeting working to MFP Cohort 39. Hickenlooper, with identify candidates for the top posi- Denver’s membership tions in the association leadership: in an international President-Elect, Vice President- environmental initia- Elect, Council Members-at-Large, tive that Maes claimed Committee on Publications, was promoting the and Committee on Committees. From the Executive Officer .................2 program as part of a Another group will develop a list “greater strategy to Photo Source: www.bcyclemediaroom.com Science Policy .........................................3 of candidates for the Committee rein in American cit- on Nominations. If you know of International Perspectives .................7 ies under a United Nations treaty.” someone that you think would be Nonetheless, Denver’s bicycle-shar- partnership emerged to fund, plan, Public Sociology ....................................9 and implement bike-sharing in the good for one of these positions, or ing program was implemented later if you are interested in being con- ASA Forum ............................................ 14 that year (Denver Post 2010). city permanently. The first stations and bicycles in Denver were put in sidered for one of these positions, Announcements ................................. 16 B-cycle of Denver was the first please send the information to us at large-scale municipal bike sharing place for Earth Day 2010. Currently, program in the country. It origi- Continued on page 12 Continued on page 15 footnotes • July/August 2012 To view the online version, visit <www.asanet.org/footnotes/julyaugust12/index.html> 1 American Sociological Association footnotes.asanet.org from the executive officer Sociologist Teresa Sullivan—Extraordinary Scholar, Teacher, Mentor and Higher Education Leader—Faces her Next Challenges as UVA President n Monday, June 18, 2012, as laboration with Vice Presidents Othousands of students, faculty, and Deans and representatives staff, and alumni saluted of the faculty. This is the her with deafening best, most constructive, cheers of support, Teresa most long lasting, and A. Sullivan, embattled beneficial way to change President of the University a university. Until the of Virginia (UVA), made her way last ten days, the change at across the UVA Lawn at the vener- UVA has not been disruptive able campus designed by Thomas change, and it has not been Jefferson to the Rotunda to address high-risk change. Corporate- the university’s Board of Visitors style, top-down leadership does whose chair, Rector Helen E. Dragas, not work in a great university. had asked for her resignation 10 days Sustained change with buy-in earlier without warning, without a does work. UVA is one of formal vote, and without explanation. the world’s greatest universi- Less than 10 days later, on ties. [See her full statement at Photo: The Washington Post/Getty Images Tuesday, June 26, 2012, Sullivan <chronicle.com/items/biz/pdf/ again made her way across the Lawn Dr.%20Teresa%20Sullivan%20 Board of Visitors to move in another experience is why Sullivan was to the Rotunda, with Rector Dragas, Board%20Statement.pdf>] direction stems from their concern chosen by the UVA Board of to meet with the Board of Visitors But not everyone sees transforma- that the governance of the University Visitors as the eighth president of that had unanimously reinstated her tion this way. Rector Dragas, who was not sufficiently tuned to the dra- a university founded in 1819 and as President of UVA while thousands orchestrated President Sullivan’s matic changes we all face: funding, as its first woman president. Teresa of members of the UVA community resignation, is a wealthy real estate Internet, technology advances, the Sullivan could not have been an thundered their approval. developer in Virginia Beach. Her ini- new economic model. These are mat- undergraduate at this great institu- There has been much specula- tial statement contained no comment ters for strategic dynamism rather tion because it did not admit women tion about why some members on President Sullivan, but made ref- than strategic planning.” when she attended college, and she of the Board of Visitors—which erence to the “need for bold and pro- Another vision of transforma- was otherwise an outsider to the is appointed by the Governor of active leadership” and “a much faster tion appears to be this “strategic UVA system when she arrived at Virginia—sought to replace President pace of change.” Additional insight, dynamism” which, according to the university to begin her tenure as Sullivan. There are conspiracy however, came from Peter Kiernan, Vaidhyanathan after some research, president. However, it is clear from theories, of course, as well as more a former partner at Goldman Sachs, “appears to be a method of continu- the personal and public support she sobering analyses circulating in hedge fund billionaire, and member ally altering one’s short-term targets has received from students, alumni, national news media and cyberspace. of the board of the UVA Darden and resource allocation depending faculty, administrators, and donors, Whatever the details, at the core are School of Business. According to on relative changes in environ- that Teresa Sullivan is no outsider profound differences in views regard- Siva Vaidhyanathan in an article in ment, the costs of inputs, and the at UVA today. Rather, she embodies ing the shape publicly supported Slate, Kiernan resigned suddenly price you can charge for outputs. In the core values and culture as well institutions of higher education last week from the UVA business management it means…having the as the academic and professional should take in the future and how school board after emails he wrote ways and the will to shift resources standards of this distinguished great universities can make the neces- claiming to have significantly influ- to satisfy general goals via consecu- university, the first secular private sary transformations while maintain- enced the process to evict President tive short-term targets.” Maybe this institution of higher education ing strong educational foundations. Sullivan became public (www.slate. works for a start-up company or, as founded in the United States. The process of change
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