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President’s UPDATE – No. 1

June 20, 2008

  • We are pleased to announce a new Graduate Student Membership category for 50% off the regular $40 member rate. Enrolled graduate students can now become members for only $20 a year. They will still receive the PEA Yearbooks, the special issue of the Peabody Journal of Education, the electronic newsletter – the PEA Bulletin, and listserv registration. To join or renew, visit - https://www.aera.net/membershipinfo/Default.aspx?menu_id=16&id=48

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  • To head up our AERA Program efforts, Michael McLendon of Vanderbilt University has agreed to serve as our AERA Program Chair. PEA is seeking a record number of submissions for presentation at the 2009 AERA Annual Meeting on April 13-17 2009 in San Diego, California. The proposal submission system for the 2009 AERA Annual Convention (http://www.aera.net/ ) opened on June 1 and closes on August 1, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. The number of sessions that AERA allots to SIGs is based on the number of submitted proposals to a given SIG. So, please make a submission.

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  • James Cibulka of NCATE and Dorothy Shipps of Baruch College, CUNY have agreed to continue heading up PEA’s Professional Awards and Dissertation Awards Committees, respectively. Calls for nominees will be issued this fall.

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  • Katy Bulkley of Montclair State University has been appointed to lead a committee to plan the second annual National Educational Politics Workshop (NEPW) with UCEA. A survey of mentors and participants from the ’08 event will be conducted in the next couple of weeks and used in planning next year’s event.

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  • Katie McDermott of UMASS-Amherst has agreed to continue chairing the Publication Committee. The committee is currently reviewing proposals for the 2010 Yearbook.

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  • PEA’s Secretary, Stacey Rutledge of Florida State University, and I are working to redesign the Association’s logo and website. We are also leading up efforts for a 40th Anniversary gala. Please reserve Monday evening, April 13, 2009 (the first evening of the AERA annual meeting) to celebrate.

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  • Our PEA Bulletin editors Kyle Ingle of Bowling Green State University and Brendan Maxcy of the University of Missouri along with Managing Editor and Graduate Assistant Roxanne Hughes (FSU) have secured article authors for the Fall Bulletin. Upcoming issues will feature pieces from the 2008 PEA Outstanding Dissertation Award Winners, Jal Mehta of Harvard University and David Tandberg of Penn State.

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