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Call for Nominations to TAA Council
Nominate yourself or a colleague to serve on the TAA Council. Open positions include Vice President/President-Elect and two Council positions.
Terms start July 1, 2011. Any member of TAA is eligible to serve on the TAA Council. The Vice President/President-Elect term is two years. The Council terms are three years.TAA Council members are required to attend two meetings per year, one in January in St. Petersburg, Florida, and one the day prior to the association's annual conference (held traditionally in late June or early July). Travel and lodging expenses related to attending these meetings is reimbursed. Officers also attend monthly teleconferences.Nominees must send a photo, a 100-150 word bio, and a 100-150 word position statement with their nominations, describing why they would be a good candidate for the TAA Council. Deadline for completed nominations is March 8, 2010. Ballots are mailed to the membership March 15, 2011. The deadline for the receipt of ballots from members is April 15, 2011. Terms begin July 1, 2011.To nominate yourself or a colleague for the TAA Council, email your nominations to TextandAcademicAuthors@taaonline.net or mail to TAA, P.O. Box 56359, St. Petersburg, FL 33732-6359. Contact TAA if you have any questions: (727) 563-0020 or TextandAcademicAuthors@taaonline.netFor more information or to view detailed job descriptions for each position, visit TAA Elections.
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Notable Author: Kerry Ann RockquemoreNew career focus is on faculty diversity, development By Leanne Silverman Kerry Ann Rockquemore, executive director of the National Center for Faculty Development and Diversity, never visualized becoming an academic when
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she was a child. Nor did she imagine eventually walking away from a hard-won tenured faculty position. But as Rockquemore frequently reminds readers of her Monday Motivator newsletter, one's career is like a book with many chapters-and she is in the thick of a new chapter of her own."I come from a family of teachers and I always imagined myself as a public-school kindergarten teacher," said Rockquemore. "But I realized, doing my student teaching, that not only did I not want to be a kindergarten teacher, I really don't like children that much. So the idea of being with 5-year-olds all day every day...."But that experience piqued Rockquemore's intellectual curiosity: "I began to realize how unequal public education actually is. When you see how different little kids are-just walking in the door to kindergarten, because of resources or lack of them at home-all of a sudden I started to 'get' the structure piece, the inequality piece." Seeking to explore how race, class, and gender shape people even before kindergarten, Rockquemore switched her major from early childhood education to sociology.
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Applications being accepted for 2011 TAA Publication Grants
TAA is currently accepting applications for grants of up to $750 to cover expenses incurred in publishing already accepted print academic journal articles and books including academic journal page costs or university press subventions; the cost of preparing artwork or other charts, diagrams, or images to be included in accepted journal articles or academic books; and journal reprint costs.
Grants are also available for expenses incurred as a direct result of research leading to publication of a book or article, including:
- Interlibrary loan costs, or computer time costs incurred in the analysis of data, leading to publication of academic print materials.
- Costs of single photocopies of source materials for research related to the publication of an article or book.
- Costs of secretarial (copying and/or delivery) services incurred in the preparation of academic print materials.
- Cost of permissions incurred in the preparation of academic print materials for reprinting images, quoted material.
- Grant funds are also available for costs incurred by the author for textbook projects, provided the textbook is not realistically expected to yield royalties sufficient to recover the costs for which the grant is sought.
Read about past recipients
These grants are open to the public.
The deadline for applications is May 1, 2011. To apply, download a PDF form and mail to TAA Executive Director Richard Hull, 3241 Heather Hill Lane, Tallahassee, FL 32309-2307. Contact: Richard Hull, (850) 893-6539, richard.hull@taaonline.net
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Listen to interviews with industry experts
Go to TAA's blogtalkradio page, www.blogtalkradio.com/textacademicpodcast, and listen to 30-minute interviews with industry experts (15-min content, 15-min Q&A).
These episodes are open to members and non-members, so tell your friends!
TAA Podcasts currently available on blogtalkradio:
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Network with other members on TAA listservs
Network with your fellow members, ask questions, and share your expertise on the TAA Textbook Authoring Listserv and/or Academic Authoring Listserv.
Subscribe to the Textbook Authoring Listserv by sending an email to TAATextbookAuthoring-on@mail-list.com No subject line and nothing in the message field.
Subscribe to the Academic Authoring Listserv by sending an email to TAAAcademicAuthoring-on@mail-list.com No subject line and nothing in the message field.
You can switch to the Digest version of the Textbook Authoring Listserv, in which you receive only one email message per week with all that week's posts contained within it, by sending an email to TAATextbookAuthoring-switch@mail-list.com once you have been subscribed. To switch to the Digest version of the Academic Authoring Listserv, send an email to TAAAcademicAuthoring-switch@mail-list.com once you have been subscribed.
After you are subscribed to the Textbook Authoring Listserv, send messages to TAATextbookAuthoring@mail-list.com
After you are subscribed to the Academic Authoring Listserv, send messages to TAAAcademicAuthoring@mail-list.com
Read the archives for both Listservs: www.taaonline.net/membersonly/listservs
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Disclaimer: TAA has not tested nor endorses nor opposes any product or procedure recommended or referenced in any TAA publications, audio conferences, or workshops.
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