[MWERA] MWERA May 2020

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Dear MWERA Members,

I hope this email finds you and your families doing well. In the spirit of communication and transparency, I wanted to send some updates with regard to MWERA business that has been moving forward this spring. Your representatives on Association Council have been engaged in, analyzing, voting on, and approving the work of the Board. In order to keep you informed, here is what has occurred in the past month:

First, as you know, the MWERA Board voted to postpone the conference until 2021 and notified AC and membership immediately. We appreciated the positive feedback we received in making that tough decision in a timely manner.

Second, after much work at the fall and winter board meetings, the Board recommended various by-law amendments to meet the needs brought on by this pandemic, streamline the working of the board members, and clarify the roles of the board members to be sure work is spread as equitably as possible.

Third, the AC passed the following motions:

Motion 1: All 2019 memberships will carry forward through 2020. Any paid memberships for 2020 will carry forward through 2021.

Motion 2: All elected and appointed board members, association council, and division chairs and co-chairs for 2019-20 will continue in their roles until 2021. Any newly elected members (2020) will start at the end of the conference in 2021.

We believe these motions will help to provide both financial and structural continuity in a time when we cannot meet in person at the conference site.

Additionally, we plan to offer a few online options for learning and collaborating in October during those days on which we would have met. So stay tuned for more information!

Best,
Laney Bender-Slack
MWERA President


Dr. Delane A. Bender-Slack
Associate Professor
Reading/TESOL Program Director
Xavier University
College of Professional Sciences
School of Education
3800 Victory Parkway
Cincinnati, OH 45207-3231
(513) 745-3958
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