Society Committee on Education (SOCED)

What does SOCED do?

The Society Committee on Education (SOCED) ensures that the American Chemical Society's educational activities focus on critical chemical education issues across all levels of instruction.

SOCED's responsibilities include:

• Implementing ACS policies in chemical education
• Developing reports and recommendations for the ACS Board and Council on ACS policies and programs related to chemical education

• Receiving, reviewing, and making recommendations to the Board and Council on proposals for policies and programs in chemical education
• Acting in an advisory capacity on matters relating to chemical education
• Recommending approval or disapproval of requests for the funding of new or unbudgeted items related to chemical education
• Drafting statements for ACS Board approval on the annual budgets for both the National Science Foundation's education programs and the U.S. Department of Education

Publications

• Science Education Policies for Sustainable Reform
  ACS policy document on science education.
• Statement on Scholarship
  An updated policy statement approved by the ACS Board of Directors that highlights the connection between innovation and scholarly activity across the entire spectrum of intellectual activities.
• Tomorrow
  The classic 1984 SOCED report on the state of chemical education.