Tina Heafner, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, has been elected Vice President of National Council for the Social Studies. Tina served on the North Carolina Council for the Social Studies (NCCSS) board of directors, is a past president of the North Carolina Professors of Social Studies Education (NCPSSE), and has led state advocacy initiatives to promote K-12 social studies teaching and quality curriculum.  For NCSS, she has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Citizenship Committee, and has been an officer of the Teacher Education Community. Tina is past chair of the executive board of NCSS’s College and University Faculty Assembly (CUFA), and she actively publishes on policy and curriculum issues in social studies, online learning, and disciplinary literacies. For example, Tina has conducted research documenting the marginalization of social studies in elementary curricula.

 Tina's term as Vice President begins July 1, 2017, and in that role she is in line to be president beginning July 2019. 

NCSS members also elected four members to three-year terms on the Board of Directors. Joseph Karb, a teacher at Springville Middle School, Springville, New York, and Shannon Pugh, a Secondary Social Studies Teacher Specialist for Anne Arundel County Public Schools in Annapolis, Maryland, were elected to second consecutive terms on the NCSS Board of Directors. Joining the board for their first terms are Anthony Roy, a Teacher at Connecticut River Academy, East Hartford, Conecticut, and Jesse Haight, a Professor at Clarion University, Clarion, Pennsylvania. 

Also in July, President-Elect Terry Cherry, a consultant from Mesquite, Texas, will begin his term as president, and Vice-President India Meissel, a Teacher at Lakeland High School in Suffolk, Virginia, will assume the office of president-elect.