Editor's notes

• Published date: 01 June 2012
• Date: 01 June 2012
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1002/nml.21035
• Author: Charles M. Gray

NONPROFIT MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP, vol. 22, no. 4, Summer 2012 © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. 383

Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) DOI: 10.1002/nml.21035

EDITOR’SNOTES

IT IS WITH DECIDEDLY mixed feelings that I write these final Editor’s

Notes of my term as editor of this distinguished journal. On one

hand, I will miss my daily exposure to the work of nonprofit scholars

and practitioners from around the world. On the other hand, my life

promises to become decidedly simpler as I transition back to full-time

teaching and research, the latter enhanced by my appointment as senior

fellow in my home institution’s Center for Nonprofit Management.

My reflection on the past three years yields a few especially note-

worthy developments:

•NML was selected for inclusion in Social Sciences Citation Index, Jour-

nal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition, and Current Contents/

Social and Behavioral Sciences, all sponsored by Thomson-Reuters.

• The number of manuscript submissions increased by about 25

percent over the period.

• We published some seminal work that will surely influence non-

profit scholarship for decades to come.

You will learn more about future directions for the journal from

my successor, Professor Duncan Neuhauser, who holds appointments

in multiple units at Case Western Reserve University. In the mean-

time, this special issue on nonprofit boards and governance grew out

of a conference hosted by the Midwest Center for Nonprofit Leader-

ship at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. Professor David Renz,

who directs that center, serves as guest editor and introduces the arti-

cles that follow. Our thanks to Dave, who guided the issue from con-

cept to completion.

I also express my boundless gratitude to the many individuals

who supported my editorship in assorted ways:

• Former Mandel Center executive director Susan Eagan brought me

on board, upon the recommendation of the search committee.

• Dean Christopher Puto of the Opus College of Business, Univer-

sity of St. Thomas, underwrote course releases and administrative

support that freed my time and energy.

• Professor Carl Stenberg, director of the MPA program in the School

of Government at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill,

provided office space and support during my sabbatical adjunct

appointment, which coincided precisely with my first five months

of editorial duty.