Annual Meeting Highlights

Dear Colleague:

The New England Association of Schools and Colleges will gather for its 126th Meeting and Conference at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston on December 7-9, 2011. The theme of the meeting is “Learning that Transforms Lives” and will allow our speakers and presenters to blend the history of our profession with current themes, demands and needs.

Some Commissions will hold pre-conference sessions on Wednesday, December 7. These pre-conference sessions are part of the Annual Meeting format, so attendance requires that you register for the Annual Meeting. Workshops and sessions will be available to all attendees and will focus on topics relevant to this year’s theme as well as the work of both the Commissions and the Association. We encourage everyone to attend and participate in them.

The plenary address will be delivered on Thursday December 8 at 1:00 pm by David Brooks, New York Times OpEd columnist and PBS NewsHour commentator. Gloria Steinem, writer, editor, lecturer and international organizer for social justice will be our banquet speaker on Thursday evening, December 8 at 6:00 pm, and Senator George J. Mitchell, former Senate Majority Leader, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, former U.S. Envoy to the Middle East, and 2011 Charles W. Eliot Award Recipient will speak at the luncheon on Friday, December 9.

The Annual Business Meeting of the Association will be held on Friday morning, December 9 at 8:00 am. The Annual Business Meeting is where the membership takes action on issues pertinent to the welfare of the Association. At this year’s business meeting, action will be required on a number of by-law changes designed to strengthen the roles and responsibilities of both the Commissions and the Board of Trustees.

Please join your colleagues from throughout New England at the Fairmont Copley Plaza Hotel on December 7-9, 2011. We look forward to seeing you. Conference registration materials will be available online by October. If your school or college is a member institution, please be sure to properly identify two voting delegates and return the enclosed delegate credential form to our office.

Sincerely,

Cameron Staples