ATA approves new governing policy for division leadership
Divisions to be led by a Leadership Council
Dear Colleagues,
Last year in October at the ATA Annual Conference, the ATA Board approved a new governing policy for division leadership. In addition to the Administrator and Assistant Administrator, divisions will now be led by a Leadership Council made up of 3 to 10 people according to the size and needs of the division.
Leadership Council members commit to performing tasks to benefit the division. This could be a recurring annual task or a number of ongoing smaller tasks such as arranging a social event during the ATA Annual Conference, managing and editing the division’s newsletter, maintaining the division’s website, recruiting speakers and reviewing presentation proposals, or managing the GLD listserv. The Leadership Council will also serve as a talent pool for future division administrators.
I will be identifying several of you as potential volunteers willing to become members of the GLD Leadership Council over the coming weeks based on your past and current involvement in division activities. Most of you have given a great deal of your time to the GLD in various roles. This change does not necessarily mean any additional work to that you already have. Your roles will simply become more “official” and integrated into the whole of the division leadership.
In the next couple of months, the ATA will be publishing information on this new governing policy for divisions in its monthly periodical, The Chronicle. Minor changes were made at the recent Division Administrators Summit in Alexandria, VA, at the end of April, which I attended. These will be approved by the ATA Board at its upcoming meeting. The final document will be made available on the ATA website and printed in The Chronicle. However, I may well be contacting individuals prior to its publication, which is the reason I’m posting this today.
I look forward to convening the German Language Division’s first Leadership Council – and I am certain I will have no difficulties in finding volunteers. 🙂
Warm regards,
Ruth A. Gentes Krawczyk
GLD Administrator
[PS: The approved policy is now available on this website.]