The Augustan Society, Inc., bills itself as an "association of scholars". The Society also emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to the field. Indeed, our ability to span conventional topic boundaries is one of the Society's great strengths. As such, there are many activities which do not fall neatly into one of the topical Departments. For this reason, and because they don't need discipline-specific oversight, it is appropriate to create these projects as Study Groups under administration separate from the topical Departments.
While the leader The [[Coordinator]] of each Study Group is presently appointed by and serves at the pleasure of the [[President]], it is proposed elsewhere that a [[Dean of Studies]] be appointed by the President to oversee and make appointments of Study Group leaders. '''Proposal: The Society should organized interdisciplinary projects, and some discipline-specific projectswho also creates, as [[Study Groups]] under the direction of the [[Dean of Studies]]activates, rather than as [[Committees]] attached to and deactivates the various DepartmentsGroups.'''
'''Proposal: The Society should permit Members to join such [[Study Groups]] as they wish without charge.'''