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Funds were received for additional essay competitions
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” “ 1. Alpha Chi's National Council made a decision to pursue the design and implementation of computer systems to manage online acceptance of invitations to membership where students can register and pay dues online. 2. Held a very successful national convention in Indianapolis with our first national service project to collect books for children at Riley Hospital for Children. Over 2000 books were collected and distributed. Also, several new sponsors and sponsors of less active chapters were in attendance after special effort was made to encourage their participation. 3. Agreed to experiment in 2010 and 2012 with a single combined convention rather than seven regional meetings; if the 2010 and 2012 events are successful and financially viable, the Constitution could be amended to mandate annual rather than biennial national conventions. Alpha Chi has planned an exciting "super-regional" convention in Little Rock, Ark., for March 2010 with a speaker from the "Little Rock Nine" and a panel discussion at the Clinton Presidential Library featuring at least three former members of the Clinton administration. 4. Decided to give regional convention presentation prizes at super-regional convention. 5. Began redesign of national web site with move to a private server. ” “ In conjunction with the National Broadcsting Society, Alpha Epsilon Rho conducted a national convention, four regional conferences, a national production competition, awarded two national grants, and bestowed two community service awards. ” “ There were several accomplishments: 1. The implementation of a redesigned web site. 2. The establishment of an online career center within the web site. 3. The addition of two new chapters. 4. Succeful inauguration of the "International Journal of Applied Decision Sciences" 5. Formal recognition by ACHS. ” “ Among Alpha Kappa Delta's ongoing accomplishments are is the support of an ASA Minority Fellowship for a deserving graduate student and the close collaboration between AKD and the ASA's Undergraduate Honors Program. In addition, library subscriptions to AKD's journal, Sociological Inquiry, have increased over the past few years and the citation rating of the journal has increased. Further, the financial contribution of Sociological Inquiry to AKD has enabled AKD to continue to provide funding for the various activities that directly benefit chapters and members. ” “ held a workshop in Minneapolis, MN in Oct. 2009 inducted over 30,000 new members installed three new chapters installed new President, Dr. Susan Huffman named James G. Stemler study abroad scholarships to be offered in 2010 ” “ Recruiting excellent professional speakers for the annual conference. Working with professional organizations in the criminal justice field Co-hosting a Crime Scene event with housing Institution. Application and Receipt of GEN Registation of all chapters with IRS; assignment of all chapters' EIN Filed 990N for all chapters ” “ Alpha Pi Mu provides monetary awards of excellence to student members, enhancing their ability to emphasize academic pursuits. We also provide honor stoles they can purchase and wear at commencement to demonstrate their academic success. ” “ October 2009: Triennial Conference gathered chapter presidents, faculty advisers, alumni club presidents and board members. Delegates determined the ASN agenda for the next three years and elected new board members. ” “ Ethical Business Leadership program has developed into a major resource on corporate "Good Practices." Over 35 interviews with business leaders have been conducted to date. Web site www.eblcenter.org provides information on this project and the interviews. 23 alumni chapters in the U.S, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Switzerland , Chapter Advisor seminar held in Europe for European, African and Middle East chapters ” “ Beta Kappa Chi's subcommittee and the President of the National Institute of Science submitted a proposal to the NSF and was sucessful in getting funded for five years. The majority of the funds are primarily used for the implementation of the Joint Annual Meetings of BKX and NIS. At the last two national conferences, students and faculty had the opportunity to meet nobel laureates after they presented their scientific research at plenary sessions. There was great participation this past year as the organization incorporated a highschool component within the programming of the national meetings. Awards were given to the young participants and it remains as an experience of a lifetime for them. There was an increase in the number of platform and poster abstracts submitted at the last national meeting. ” “ Beta Phi Mu sponsors the annual ALA Beta Phi Mu Award which consists of $1,000 and a 24k gold-framed citation of achievement to a library school faculty member or to an individual for distinguished service to education for librarianship. ” “ We are implementing ideas generated by our strategic planning process. We had a terrific response from our members to what we thought was a long but useful survey. The data and comments resulted in literally hundreds of pages of print out. All of which is helping us to address the needs and interests of our members to an even greater degree than in the past. We have sent a record level of rebates to support chapter activities ($57,000), increased our research grants funds, and continue our other supports to chapters including top speakers for chapter initiations at nominal cost to chapters. Our website has been enhanced with new features suggested by our strategic planning input. We believe that we are better able to serve student, faculty and practitioner members, chapters, and our profession. ” “ Hosting of annual convention to bring together members from across the nation and spotlight the host chapter's school. Recognize outstanding chapter annually at the banquet. ” “ The Epsilon Pi Tau Strategic Planning Key Result Areas as presented to the Board of Directors were divided into the following seven different areas: • Increase Membership (Active Members) • Increase Membership (Expand into New Markets) • Improve Operational Aspects • Increase Lifelong Leadership through the Precepts • Improve & Enhance Products • Improve and Enhance Services and Recognition • Establish & Apply Overall Evaluation Monitoring System of all Key Result Areas ” “ Scholarships awarded to undergraduate and graduate students. Funding of speakers at smaller programs with insufficient funding to invite speakers on their own. ” “ International connections with chapters in 7 countries (adding more each year), Huge network of membership to draw upon (over 1.9M members), immediate benefits available to every member ” “ new approach to biennial convention - worked well in that it attracted new attendees, but was costly and will need to be adjusted to make it sustainable ” “ At most of our chapters, induction into Kappa Tau Alpha is considered a major highlight of a student's career. Beginning in 1944, KTA has conducted an annual contest for the best research-based book in the field (see "e" above). A large number of books are received and the contest is recognized as the foremost one of its kind. Keith Sanders, the executive director, received the 2008 Presidential Award for Distinguished Service from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC). Co-sponsored a panel discussion at the AEJMC convention in Boston on "KTA at 99: Promoting Scholarship from 1910 into the 21st Century" that received rave reviews. ” “ 1) See "e" above. 2) We publish an annual journal (LIT Journal), printing the best poems, short stories, critical essays of the students initiated each year. 3) We give three to five scholarhsips of $1,000 per year. ” “ - Held several regional undergraduate research conferences in conjunction with Regional Communication Associations (Eastern, Southern, Western, & Central). Started a travel fund to support student travel to the national convention. ” “ We also chartered one chapter at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. We also initiated a recognition program which includes honoring the Outstanding Chapter and the Most Improved Chapter each year at our fall Presidents Conference. ” “ Selection of new executive director Revitalizing annual campaign of the Mortar Board National Foundation ” “ * Added 2 new nominating schools this past year * 5 schools renominating schools with new faculty advisors after no nominations for 2 years + * Membership is up 20% * Cleaned up the databases of member information and faculty information to make them as current and clean as possible. This has resulted in much more communication with the faculty nominators. * Saw an increase in scholarship applicants because of a concerted effort to promote them more. ” “ Increase in scholarship dollars Introduction of new campus programs Successful Convention, Induction Convocations and Integrity Initiatives High adoption of NSCS-based social media New partnerships ” “ We continue to increase our visibility within the profession. We have a presence at the national meeting of our professional society where we make a presentation to undergraduate student attendees. We sponsor student paper and design competitions. We are also receiving inquiries from several schools that have an interest in establishing new chapters. ” “ Continual growth and interest in society, despite economic downturns ” “ We have experienced continued growth in our membership numbers and greater success with our annual regional meetings and biennial conventions. In addition, we have established a greater online presence through our website. Through an effort to contact inactive chapters, we have seen several chapters with no activity in the last several years move to revitalize and offer the numerous benefits of Phi Alpha Theta to its students. ” “ 1. Provided academic recognition to more than 975,000 initiated members since its founding in 1923 2. Awarded national and local scholarships since 1970--during the 2008-09 academic year alone, national awarded a total of $285,000 to 75 Phi Eta Sigma members 3. Provided leadership opportunities, both local and national, to its members--student members attending national conventions chair all convention committees and elect all national officers--this unique strength is the foundation of our form of government and demonstrates the long-held Society principle that our members are responsible and capable of providing national guidance and leadership if given that responsibility ” “ Scholarships, Fellowships, Awards program Very Successful Community Services project at Conclave Chapter Professional Projects ” “ Since its founding in 1974, PAA has experienced remarkable growth. Beginning with an initial group of eighteen founding chapters, the society has grown to encompass one hundred fifty four (154) chapters with a total membership of 39,180. The expansion in size and scope continues. Three new chapters were established in 2008-09 academic year alone. Both locally and nationally, PAA continues to gain increasing recognition for its role in supporting scholarship, leadership and excellence in public affairs and administration. Local chapters have contributed to the society's recognition by awarding honorary memberships to leaders at local, state, and national levels who stand out by the dedication to public service. Local chapters sponsor scholarly symposia, speaker's programs, scholarship awards, and mentoring activities. Many also work closely with other professional groups, such as local chapters of ASPA to promote public service and to recognize achievement in scholarship and practice. ” “ Besides offering the three scholarships, over the past few years Pi Delta Phi has successfully established a website and data base that facilitate communication between the National Committee and the chapter moderators and among the chapters. More and more we all have the sense that working in the same field, we face the same challenges, which is reassuring, and we know to whom to reach out if we have questions and concerns. A listserv and Facebook are new features of the Pi Delta Phi web page. ” “ A successful biennial convention was held in Chicago, Illinois, April 10-11, 2009. Student members formed bonds that are being maintained now. ” “ Web development and online features including links to better serve students/members. Chapter wide support and participation in the Martha Kirkland Leadership Legacy Fund. ” “ We've added two new competitions: 1. The Johnson/Cousins/Tracy Building Bonds award which recognizes and encourages collaborative service projects between Psi Chi and Psi Beta chapters. 2. The Exemplary Chapter award which goes to all chapters meeting the minimum standard for chapter activities. 3. We've implemented a national research project. The focus is on factors that influence personal happiness.Chapters' members will be able to tap the research database to investigate and report on specific hypotheses of interest. 4. We're continuing to update and modernize our website and database. 5. We just held our 4th consecutive annual national conference. ” “ Psi Chi chapters voted to change Psi Chi's name from the national to the International Honor Society in Psychology. Initiatives to support our new international status are well underway. Chapters also voted to remove the National Leadership Conference (held every two years and attended by chapter presidents and advisors only) from the constitution and instead to support more frequent leadership programming that will reach many more student members. ” “ Awarded ten fellowships to student members Coordinated printing and mailing of "Aspirations" newsletters to membership Created and mailed the seim-annual faculty newsletter "The Bridge" to all active chapters Installed twenty-two new chapters Exec. Director attended two board meetings, one Executive Committee meeting, and ACBSP Annual Meeting(spoke at the meeting Friday and conducted a Prospective Chapter session Sunday morning) Introduced new Church Hill Classics inventory line Provided monthly Chapter Operations Report to board of directors Worked with BusinessWeek to offer subscriptions to members at discounted rate ” “ Undergraduate scholarship program. Graduate research grant program. ” “ Continue to acquire new chapters at universities that have academic programs in landscape architecture. ” “ Finances put on Quicken New Chapter Standard Operating Procedures Rough Draft ” “ In conjunction with the Society of Physics Students, adopted policy statement: "The Society of Physics Students recognizes that there is a vast untapped intellectual resource in all groups underrepresented in physics. For this reason, the Society of Physics Students is committed to making physics more accessible to everyone. We are committed to providing programs, resources and opportunities that encourage greater participation in the community of physics from members of all groups." ” “ In the last school year we have implemented online submission for convention papers. We have included chapter officers in our email distributions in addition to the chapter sponsors. We now have an alumni representative to further our communication with our alumni members. For the first time, our alumni representative and student representatives have produced online newsletters that provide direct links and allow comments for readers. We continue to ehance the content and user-friendliness of our website, and have taken steps to implement an online scholarship submission system next year. ” “ Successful research congress, successful leadership academy for chapter leaders, positive response to geriatric nursing leadership program ” “ Gave record $468,000 in scholarships ($2,000 per chapter). Gave $170,000 in fellowships. TBP Fellowship Program won the ASEE Corporate Member Council's 2009 Excellence in Engineering Collaboration Award. TBP provides more aid to engineering students than ANY other engineering society (including technical societies) in the world. Had record 2,000,000 hits on main web site Improved TBPCONNECT private social community with 7,900 participants Expanded National K-12 Project—MindSET Program & received $50,000 designated gift. We are celebrating our 125th Anniversary (Quasquicentennial)! ” “ have steadily been updating and refining website; have expanded scholarship offerings and fellowship amounts; have shifted to vendor handling of regalia orders; have streamlined office procedures and improved communication among Board members ” “ - is the only honor society that is recognized by the ACM and the IEEE-CS. ACM and the IEEE are the two largest computer-related organizations in the world. - Founding member society of IFEES - International Federation of Engineering Societies ” |
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