[Stc_ac_news] STC Academic Communjity: Call for volunteers

[Hillary]

I am happy to work on #4, but, like Deborah, I don't want to chair 
it. I can also work on #3, but not until very end of Sept.

Why is the call so late?????????????

Thanks for your work, Tommy.
Hillary

At 08:05 AM 9/1/2007, you wrote:
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STC Academic Community Members,

Thank you to all of you who responded to the STC Academic Community 
planning survey.  The results showed support for the following
initiatives:

    * Collecting and disseminating all scholarship, awards, and 
 competition information to students.  This project would entail 
 sending inquiries to all chapters and communities and assembling 
 the results according to the three categories.  We would then make 
 the information available in as many venues as possible, such as 
 the STC AC list, and other STC lists.
    * AC sponsoring of the Student Poster Competition.  This project 
 entails managing the competition this year.  All the forms are in 
 place.  The process is:  announce, remind, collect posters in the 
 spring, review in early spring, announce acceptance, coordinate 
 display with STC office, coordinate pre-conference judging (form 
 available), coordinate conference judging, award winners, take pictures.
    * AC sponsoring of a Progression session at STC 55.  This 
 project requires you to put out a call on the AC announcement list 
 (I'll coordinate the announcements), receive and review abstracts, 
 select presenters, submit the panel, remind the presenters, run the 
 panel at the conference.  Due date for STC 55 presentation 
 proposals is October 19, but the call hasn't yet gone 
 out.  Conference date:  June 1-4, 2008.
    * AC sponsoring of a research panel at STC 55.  This project 
 requires you to do a preliminary call to find out who is doing 
 research that is appropriate, and whether they want to present 
 it.  Rather than just send out a call and waiting, I think it's 
 better to solicit and encourage, so that we have strong projects to 
 put on the panel.  Due date for STC 55 presentation proposals is 
 October 19, but the call hasn't yet gone out.  Conference 
 date:  June 1-4, 2008.

I need volunteers for all these projects: people to manage them and 
people to be on the teams.  Please send me your preferences for 
which team you'd like to join,  and whether you'd be interested in 
managing.  I will work with you to get your team set up, 
put  information on the web for you, and help coordinate all 
activities.  I plan to submit a revised budget, based on volunteer 
efforts, to subsidize  conference fees (in the range of $100 to 
$200) for managers of projects 3-4.  I can also submit budget 
revisions (with strong business cases) for any expenses for these
projects.

I look forward to hearing from you.  Let's make this a great year 
for the STC Academic Community.

Dr. Thomas Barker
Manager, STC Academic Community
thomas.barker at ttu.edu
http://www.stc-ac.org

The STC Academic Community serves STC members worldwide who work as 
educators and researchers in colleges and universities.  These 
responsibilities involve areas of curriculum design, current 
practices in technical communication, research and research funding, 
and academic workplace and professional issues.

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