Friday, July 08, 2005
Special Update on 2006 Annual Meeting
Thursday, 7 July 2005 17:55:35
From the E-Mail Box of the Executive Director
Dear AERA Members:
As you know, the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) is scheduled for San Francisco, California from April 8 to 12. Many of you may also be aware of, or be following, the ongoing labor situation in San Francisco regarding a dispute between the hotel management and the hotel workers' union. At its meeting on June 25th, AERA Council discussed the situation and asked staff to take a number of steps to urge both labor and management to achieve an expeditious settlement.
AERA President Gloria Ladson-Billings and I hope to be able to provide AERA members with a fuller briefing shortly after July 15, 2005. It is our impression that news articles about to be published on the San Francisco labor situation may refer to several of the research societies with Annual Meetings scheduled for San Francisco in 2006, including AERA. We want you to know that the staff and officers of the Association are urging that the dispute be resolved and are aware that we need to take steps to ensure a viable Annual Meeting if current conditions in San Francisco do not change quite soon.
Please be assured that we will notify you, our members, about this situation and 2006 Annual Meeting planning as soon as we have more definitive information. We will provide further updates later in the month. In the meantime, please work on preparing your individual and session proposals for the 2006 Annual Meeting. The submission deadlines of August 1 and 2, 2005 are sooner than they may seem. Also, please consider volunteering to serve as a reviewer or as a session chair or discussant. The 2006 theme, Education Research in the Public Interest, certainly is most timely for our research community and for the publics we serve.
With best wishes for the summer season,
FeliceFelice J. Levine, PhD
Executive Director
flevine-at-aera-dot-net
Tags: AERA 2006, AERA, rural, education
From the E-Mail Box of the Executive Director
Dear AERA Members:
As you know, the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) is scheduled for San Francisco, California from April 8 to 12. Many of you may also be aware of, or be following, the ongoing labor situation in San Francisco regarding a dispute between the hotel management and the hotel workers' union. At its meeting on June 25th, AERA Council discussed the situation and asked staff to take a number of steps to urge both labor and management to achieve an expeditious settlement.
AERA President Gloria Ladson-Billings and I hope to be able to provide AERA members with a fuller briefing shortly after July 15, 2005. It is our impression that news articles about to be published on the San Francisco labor situation may refer to several of the research societies with Annual Meetings scheduled for San Francisco in 2006, including AERA. We want you to know that the staff and officers of the Association are urging that the dispute be resolved and are aware that we need to take steps to ensure a viable Annual Meeting if current conditions in San Francisco do not change quite soon.
Please be assured that we will notify you, our members, about this situation and 2006 Annual Meeting planning as soon as we have more definitive information. We will provide further updates later in the month. In the meantime, please work on preparing your individual and session proposals for the 2006 Annual Meeting. The submission deadlines of August 1 and 2, 2005 are sooner than they may seem. Also, please consider volunteering to serve as a reviewer or as a session chair or discussant. The 2006 theme, Education Research in the Public Interest, certainly is most timely for our research community and for the publics we serve.
With best wishes for the summer season,
FeliceFelice J. Levine, PhD
Executive Director
flevine-at-aera-dot-net
Tags: AERA 2006, AERA, rural, education
