While the leader 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 projects, as [[Study Groups]] without attachment to a specific topical departmentunder the direction of the [[Dean of Studies]], rather than as [[Committees]] attached to the various Departments.'''