$40 seems very reasonable for any association membership -- I'm happy to
pay it. But if the only thing the membership is likely to fund is an
annual mini-conference that can be collected for separately, I wonder
whether even trying to collect membership dues is worth the headache.
CASLL seems to have given up trying to get the level of institutional
respectability that CASDW enjoys, and in fact got on well as an informal
group for a number of years at the beginning. Now that we have CASDW to
be the formal representative of writing studies in Canada, is there
merit to continuing CASLL as a strictly informal group, without the need
for a formal board etc.?
I hope we hear from some other Inkshedders on this point.
Cheers
Doug
On 04/01/2011 2:29 PM, Brock MacDonald wrote:
> As Russ mentioned in his message earlier today regarding the CASLL listserve, in the not-too-distant future we'll need to make some important decisions regarding the future form of the association and the Inkshed conference. Last year, we held a one-day Inkshed meeting as a special supplement to the CASDW meeting at Congress, and it may well be, as Russ said, that something similar will be organized this year; however, in order to plan that properly, and then to be in a position to make those important decisions, we need to reconstitute the association itself.
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> Last year's Inkshed meeting, for the benefit of those who didn't attend, was a modest effort to return Inkshed to something like its original form as a "working conference:" there were no conventional papers or presentations; instead the day was spent in general discussion and in collective review of work-in-progress brought by various attendees. It was a very successful event, and I think many of us would agree that there is great value in continuing to have a conference of this kind, an alternative to the ordinary or conventional form of academic get-together.
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> The problem is, at present there is no active CASLL executive and in a sense no real CASLL membership: no one has paid membership dues for several years. (Patricia Patchet-Golubev, the last properly elected Treasurer, has resigned the position and turned the administration of CASLL's remaining funds over to me, which I suppose makes me Acting Treasurer for the time being.) To determine the future of the association, we need a membership drive, hence this message.
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> If you would like to have a say (and more importantly a vote!) in determining the future of CASLL, please send $40 membership dues for the current year ($20 for grad students) to me at the address below. Make your check out to CASLL, or in full, the Canadian Association for the Study of Language and Learning. Paid-up members will not need to pay to attend this year's Inkshed meeting.
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> Roger Graves has suggested that we set February 15th as a kind of target date for this membership drive; at that point, we will initiate an online discussion among members re organizing this year's meeting.
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> Calling all Inkshedders!
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> Brock
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