[Athen] [ATHEN] Elections

[Robert Beach]

You have to provide home-made brownies for every meeting.

Okay, you can't blame a guy for trying. <grin>


Robert Lee Beach
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Kansas City Kansas Community College
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>>> "Heidi Scher" <hascherdss at gmail.com> 10/11/2007 8:48 AM >>>

Happy fall, y'all!

I'll step out on a limb and announce that I'd be willing to take on
the position of Treasurer if Eileen Berger is no longer interested.
But if she is, that's great!!!

Guess I should ask...Membership list and dues... What else does the
position entail??

Heidi

Heidi Scher, M.S., CRC
Interim Assistant Director
Center for Educational Access
University of Arkansas
1 University of Arkansas, ARKU 104
Fayetteville, AR 72701
(479) 575-3104 (voice)
(479) 575-7445 (fax)
(479) 575-3646 (tdd)

On 10/10/07, Ron Stewart <ron.stewart at dolphinusa.com> wrote:

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> My original logic in suggesting two VP's was to get more people

involved in

> the decision making process more than anything else.  We really only

need

> one now that we have become a viable group.

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> Ron

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> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org]

On

> Behalf Of Berkowitz, Daniel J

>  Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:32 AM

>

>  To: Access Technologists in Higher Education Network

>  Subject: Re: [Athen] [ATHEN] Elections

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> Terry – or whomever takes on this responsibility – please take

note that

> Article 5 of the by-laws does not specifically state that we shall

have two

> Vice-Presidents.

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>

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> Sec. 5.1: The officers of the network shall be an Executive Committee

and be

> comprised of a President, one or more Vice Presidents, a Secretary,

a

> Treasurer, and such other temporary officer or officers as the

Executive

> Committee may from time to time determine.

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> Sec. 5.6 refers specifically to a Vice-President (singular)

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> I am just pointing this out as it may mean that by Pratik stepping

down we

> will only need to nominate and elect a single V.P.

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>  ________________________________

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> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org]

On

> Behalf Of Ron Stewart

>  Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 8:39 AM

>  To: 'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'

>  Subject: Re: [Athen] [ATHEN] Elections

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>

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> I am sure you are right J

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> The person who takes this on needs to oversee the process of the

election

>

> 1.       Solicit candidates and if they wish personal statements of

> qualification or merit for the office they are seeking

>

> 2.       Verify that all candidates are members in good standing

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> 3.       Provide election information to Sean Keegan for placement on

the

> website

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> 4.       Overseen the in person and electronic election process.

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> 5.       Verify that only members votes are tabulated

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> 6.       Count the votes and announce the results.

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>

> There is probably more but I think this pretty much covers it. 

Elections

> are to be held in conjunction with AHG so time is fairly short.

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> The offices are

>

> President – Currently occupied by me, and yes I am willing to

continue on

>

> Vice President West – Currently occupied by Dan Comden

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> Vice President East – Currently occupied by Pratik Patel who will

not be

> seeking reelection

>

> Treasure – Currently occupied by Eileen Berger

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> Secretary – Currently occupied by Laurie Vasquez

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> Ron

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> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org]


On

> Behalf Of Terry Thompson

>  Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 6:57 PM

>  To: 'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'

>  Subject: Re: [Athen] Elections

>

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>

> Ron,

>

>  Can you say a bit more about what's involved in "overseeing the

election

> process"? With a bit more detail as to what this entails I bet you'll

be

> overwhelmed by eager volunteers.

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>

> Terry

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>  ________________________________

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> From: athen-bounces at athenpro.org [mailto:athen-bounces at athenpro.org]

On

> Behalf Of Ron Stewart

>  Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 12:08 PM

>  To: 'Access Technologists in Higher Education Network'

>  Subject: [Athen] Elections

>  Importance: High

>

> Hear yea, hear yea

>

> It is time to consider the next ATHEN elections which are to be held

in

> conjunction with the AHG conference next month.  We need to do a few

things

> to make this happen and

>

> I would like an involved and unbiased member of ATHEN to agree to

oversee

> the elections process this year, but we need to do this quickly since

AHG is

> fast approaching.

>

> Ron Stewart

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