Hello fellow ADTSG members,
I hope everyone is having a wonderful new year. I wanted to take a moment to fill everyone in on some of the highlights from our activities at the AAA meetings in San Francisco last fall as well as our plans for 2013.
Special Interest Group Chairs Meeting
On Thursday morning, Roland Moore and I attended the SMA’s special interest group (SIG) chairs meeting with SMA President, Doug Feldman. As we went around the room, each of the representatives discussed the state of their group and the various projects they were working on. I was so proud to be able to share the success of ADTSG with the group, especially in terms of conference presence, social media development, and an invested membership. In fact, our group has done so well, Roland and I were able to offer advice to the other SIG chairs on strategies to build infrastructure for their own groups such as a paper prize and online blog. We were also given some ideas about potential projects such as a mentorship program or a book prize that we are considering for 2013. I want to commend our group for having such a diversity membership of senior and junior members – this quality clearly sets us apart from some of the other groups who were struggling with ways to retain their founding members while attracting a new generation of scholars. Continue reading