Thursday, August 04, 2005
From the E-Mail Box of the Executive Director - News about 2006 Annual Meeting
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 19:30:46 -0400
From: "AERA News" aeranews@aera.net
Dear AERA Members:
As you may know, the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) was scheduled for San Francisco, California from April 8 to 12. In my July 7 e-mail to you, I indicated that the ongoing labor situation in San Francisco regarding a dispute between the hotel management and the hotel workers' union may make it impossible for the Association to schedule its meeting at certain hotels and still have a successful meeting. A briefing on this situation and the resolution passed by AERA Council on June 25th are included in my column in the August/September 2005 issue of the Educational Researcher (ER). The column is available online at:
With continued best wishes,
Felice
Felice J. Levine, PhD
Executive Director
Tags: http://drmandrake.blog-city.com/AERA, rural, education
From: "AERA News" aeranews@aera.net
Dear AERA Members:
As you may know, the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) was scheduled for San Francisco, California from April 8 to 12. In my July 7 e-mail to you, I indicated that the ongoing labor situation in San Francisco regarding a dispute between the hotel management and the hotel workers' union may make it impossible for the Association to schedule its meeting at certain hotels and still have a successful meeting. A briefing on this situation and the resolution passed by AERA Council on June 25th are included in my column in the August/September 2005 issue of the Educational Researcher (ER). The column is available online at:
http://www.aera.net/uploadedFiles/Publications/Journals/Educational_Researcher/3406/FromTheDesk.pdf.
I am writing to let you know that the 2006 Annual Meeting will continue to be held in San Francisco and also to notify you of two important changes. First and foremost, the primary site for Annual Meeting sessions will be The Moscone Center. While, as always given the size of the AERA Annual Meeting, functions and meetings will be scheduled at a number of hotels, the Center is a major facility and thus will be the headquarters site for the Annual Meeting. Second, and equally as important, the use of the The Moscone Center permits AERA to alter the dates of the Annual Meeting from April 8-12, 2006 to April 7-11, 2006. By starting one day earlier, AERA is able to avert any conflict for those who observe the Passover Holiday, which begins at sundown on April 12.
Remaining in San Francisco and relocating the Annual Meeting to the Moscone Center involved both the wisdom of the AERA Council and continuous collaboration and consultation with AERA President Gloria Ladson-Billings. We expect to hold a wonderful meeting in San Francisco in April doing what we do best--presenting research; discussing new findings, works in progress, and next stages of inquiry; investing in the next generation through our work with students and our commitment to professional development; and serving the public interest by the questions we ask, the studies we conduct, and how we disseminate our knowledge about them. What a perfect theme that our President and our Annual Meeting Program Chair, William Tate, selected for 2006--Education Research in the Public Interest. It is definitely the right theme for the right year!
This week, as we were finalizing arrangements for The Moscone Center, deadlines for the Annual Meeting online submission system were upon us. I am pleased to report 10,437 submissions--a record breaking number! We will now be turning to the next stages. Program chairs are about to commence the review process, and Robert Smith, Director of Meetings, and all of the staff will continue to work full force to organize a great meeting with this new plan in place.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at flevine@aera.net. Through these occasional e-mail news briefings to the membership, through AERA Highlights in ER, and through the AERA website (http://www.aera.net/), we will continue to keep you informed about the Annual Meeting.
I am writing to let you know that the 2006 Annual Meeting will continue to be held in San Francisco and also to notify you of two important changes. First and foremost, the primary site for Annual Meeting sessions will be The Moscone Center. While, as always given the size of the AERA Annual Meeting, functions and meetings will be scheduled at a number of hotels, the Center is a major facility and thus will be the headquarters site for the Annual Meeting. Second, and equally as important, the use of the The Moscone Center permits AERA to alter the dates of the Annual Meeting from April 8-12, 2006 to April 7-11, 2006. By starting one day earlier, AERA is able to avert any conflict for those who observe the Passover Holiday, which begins at sundown on April 12.
Remaining in San Francisco and relocating the Annual Meeting to the Moscone Center involved both the wisdom of the AERA Council and continuous collaboration and consultation with AERA President Gloria Ladson-Billings. We expect to hold a wonderful meeting in San Francisco in April doing what we do best--presenting research; discussing new findings, works in progress, and next stages of inquiry; investing in the next generation through our work with students and our commitment to professional development; and serving the public interest by the questions we ask, the studies we conduct, and how we disseminate our knowledge about them. What a perfect theme that our President and our Annual Meeting Program Chair, William Tate, selected for 2006--Education Research in the Public Interest. It is definitely the right theme for the right year!
This week, as we were finalizing arrangements for The Moscone Center, deadlines for the Annual Meeting online submission system were upon us. I am pleased to report 10,437 submissions--a record breaking number! We will now be turning to the next stages. Program chairs are about to commence the review process, and Robert Smith, Director of Meetings, and all of the staff will continue to work full force to organize a great meeting with this new plan in place.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at flevine@aera.net. Through these occasional e-mail news briefings to the membership, through AERA Highlights in ER, and through the AERA website (http://www.aera.net/), we will continue to keep you informed about the Annual Meeting.
With continued best wishes,
Felice
Felice J. Levine, PhD
Executive Director
Tags: http://drmandrake.blog-city.com/AERA, rural, education
