Sunday, July 12, 2020
Al Kertz, PhD, PAS, Dipl. ACAS Nutrition
The three major initiatives this past year have been the journal, sponsorship, and membership demographics. In the February Newsletter, I covered the successful rejuvenation of the sponsorship program. We have successfully renegotiated a new contract with Elsevier for co-publishing with FASS our journal, Applied Animal Science.
I highly recommend that you read Kenneth Cummings’ commentary to see all the other issues that ARPAS has encountered in a very much busier than normal but fruitful year. Likewise, read David Beede’s commentary about the journal. We have been blessed with the superb service of Brittany Morstatter and her colleagues at FASS in the operation of ARPAS.
Wednesday, February 26, 2020
Al Kertz, PhD, PAS, Dipl. ACAN
ARPAS Sponsorship
If you are going to only read one report in this newsletter, read Kenneth Cummings’ EVP report, as it is the most comprehensive, yet concise.
More specifically, I want to announce the new ARPAS Sponsorship program. In the past, there has been considerable corporate ARPAS sponsorship. But that has dwindled more recently due to a variety of circumstances. And it became a bit unwieldy with 3 levels of sponsorship. Thus, we decided to simplify and broaden the number of sponsorships.
Wednesday, September 11, 2019
Al Kertz, PhD, PAS, Dipl. ACAN
ARPAS faces some critical and timely issues, and we are addressing them. These issues are the journal, sponsorship, and membership.
Monday, April 29, 2019
N. Andy Cole, PhD, PAS, ACAN
Members of the Governing Council and the Executive Committee of ARPAS have been busy the past few months taking on a number of issues and challenges.
The item that has occupied most of our time is our publishing agreement with Elsevier. We are starting the fourth year of our agreement with Elsevier to publish Applied Animal Science.
Thursday, December 20, 2018
N. Andy Cole, PhD, PAS, Diplomate ACAN
We are almost halfway through the ARPAS officer year.
We are sad to say that Cornicha Henderson, who has been the ARPAS representative at FASS for the past two years, has resigned and moved to another position. We thank Cornicha for her service and wish her the best in the future. Until Cornicha’s position is filled, Cara Tharp is giving us excellent help.
Wednesday, August 1, 2018
N. Andy Cole, PhD, PAS, Diplomate ACAN
I am truly honored to serve as the president of ARPAS for the coming year and look forward to working with the other officers, directors, and committee members. Thanks to John Bernard for his service as ARPAS president for the past year.
Congratulations to our newly elected officers (Al Kertz -- President-Elect; Mo Bakke – Secretary; Dana Tomlinson – Treasurer; Patrick French – ACAS President) and Directors (Dwight Roseler – Midwest; Tom Hickley – Northeast; Heidi Rossow – West; and Daniel Rivera – Southern). I look forward to working with them and other members of the Governing Council over the next year. Thanks to the outgoing officers and to those that were willing to run for office for their service to ARPAS.
Sunday, April 1, 2018
John Bernard
Spring has arrived, and everyone is preparing for another growing season. ARPAS is also examining how to maintain growth. Current membership in ARPAS is 1,418, which includes 63 graduate students. One change that your Executive Committee will recommend is the addition of a graduate student representative to the Governing Council. This is being recommended to bring another perspective and fresh ideas for the Governing Council to consider as we look at how we best serve the next generation of professional animal scientists. Details on how to nominate a graduate student will be available in the near future, so be thinking about someone you might nominate!
Friday, December 1, 2017
John Bernard
I am happy to report that David Beede was selected to serve as the new editor-in-chief of The Professional Animal Scientist (PAS). Dave is retiring from Michigan State University at the end of the year and will begin his new role as editor-in-chief in January. We are looking forward to working with Dave to grow PAS. During the interview process, the executive committee was presented with many new ideas for the journal by the candidates, and we are looking forward to addressing these as they will help us make PAS a better journal for our members as well as potentially help recruit additional members.
Tuesday, August 1, 2017
John K. Bernard, PhD, PAS, Dipl. ACAN
I am honored to serve ARPAS as president for the coming year and look forward to working with the governing council. I would like to thank Jeff DeFrain for his service as ARPAS president and Dale Hill for his service as ARPAS treasurer. I am happy to welcome Dana Tomlinson who has agreed to serve as ARPAS treasurer, along with Andy Cole who was elected as president elect and Moe Bakke who serves as the secretary.
Saturday, April 1, 2017
Jeffrey M. DeFrain, PhD, PAS, DPL ACAS
This time of year brings about the USDA Prospective Plantings report. This report describes how many acres of each crop will be planted and, pending no major weather events, harvested. This report is among the likes of our organization as members work together not only to develop ways to support existing members but to strategically devise plans to plant seeds of organizational growth of ARPAS. We are all set to gather at our ARPAS annual meeting in Baltimore, Maryland, at the ASAS–CSAS annual meeting, where we will review activities of the past year and discuss avenues of change that will allow us to further enhance our professions through ARPAS membership.