Nominations for the 2008 ECWCA Executive Board

 

This year, there is one vacancy on the ECWCA Executive Board, which will be filled through a vote of the organization membership during the 2008 conference. This years vacancy is for a two-year term.

 

The election will be take place at the 2008 conference. The results of the election will be announced at dinner on Friday, April 11, and the new board member will attend the Boards meeting on Saturday.

 

Eligible candidates may nominate themselves or be nominated by someone else. Nominations will be accepted through 12:30 (the beginning of lunch) on April 11th. Paper nomination forms will be available at the conference. Nominees information received prior to the conference will be posted online so members can familiarize themselves with nominees experience prior to voting; all nominees information will be available for ECWCA members at the conference.

 

Board members may be writing center directors, professional staff members, or student staff members of writing centers. Each board member is expected to share in the following responsibilities:

 

  • Planning the annual ECWCA conference;
  • Attending the Board meeting at the annual conference and participating in online discussion and decision-making between face-to-face meetings of the Board;
  • Reporting to the ECWCA membership at the annual conference and communicating with the membership at other times as needed; and
  • Determining the disbursal of the treasury in support of research and scholarship related to writing centers.

 

If you are interested in nominating someone or yourself, please download the nomination form, complete it, and send it to pennesi@setonhill.edu . Please limit your biographical information and statement of service to no more than 250 words.

 

If you have any questions, feel free to contact a member of the ECWCA Elections Committee:

 

Kim Pennesi

Seton Hill University

pennesi@setonhill.edu

 

Mary Arnold Schwartz

Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne

schwartm@ipfw.edu

 

Richard Svre

Purdue University

rsevere@purdue.edu