Vichet Chhuon, associate professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has been appointed chair designate of the AERA Books Editorial Board. The board has responsibility for implementing AERA’s Handbook Series, as well as for reviewing and making decisions about book products emanating from AERA activities, journals, projects, or programs.

The board also presides over the books publishing program of the association and enables the association to serve as a publisher of books of excellence and importance to the research community and to practitioners and policymakers interested in education research. Two new members are appointed each year by the AERA president to serve a term of four years. Every two years, one of the two incoming members is appointed as chair-designate for two years, to assume the chair position the following two years, at the end of the incumbent chair’s term of service.