AIP AFFILIATED SOCIETIES WHITE PAPER REPORT - Final Submission March 30, 2020

d) Establish innovative approaches to both preserving and advancing the study of the heritage of the physical sciences and forecasting the trajectory of the physical sciences. [...] The Member Societies (the “Members”) shall serve as the members of the Corporation under the N-PCL and shall be the only persons entitled to vote as members of the Corporation. [...] The analysis will consist primarily of a SOAR(R) (strengths, opportunities, aspirations, results and risks) analysis and a consideration of the extremes: A) suspending or eliminating the Affiliated Society class of membership, B) maintaining the status quo, or C) a restructure and growth of the Affiliated class of membership. [...] Guided in part by the Consensus positions, and by a range of other inputs such as the White Papers and the products of outside consultants (dPrism and On Think Tanks), the AIP Board of Directors has approved four strategic goals for AIP (Appendix B) that will also inform the Board’s approach to membership. [...] Following are some key questions the Board may want to consider: • What is missing from this analysis? • What is the desired rationale and outcome for AIP’s having an Affiliated class of membership? • Is the Board willing to consider adding either a new, non-voting dues-paying class of membership or changing the Affiliates to dues-paying? • How should the Board consider the Affiliates in the broad.