What Issues are Plaguing IEEE-USA?

During this afternoon's roundtable session, IEEE-USA Board Members brought forward issues that they believe are plaguing IEEE Regions 1-6:

1. We need to communicate better about products, services and programs with our members (Blank)
2. What is the best process for setting the public policy priorities? How would you like to receive public policy information? What other non-traditional approaches can we use to put forth public policy? (Jeffries)
3. Member apathy at the local level (Polavarapu)
4. Value and format of the Annual Meeting (Pierce)
5. Membership retention and recruitment (Robinson and Stogner)
6. How to encourage companies to support membership, involvement, and volunteerism of their employees as IEEE members (Bramlett)
7. Employment resources (Perkins)
8. Should we be encouraging new PACE programs in the sections? How should we prioritize programs? (Rubenstein)
9. Public awareness of engineering and IEEE-USA (Patel)