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Conference Information
HOTEL AND REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Hotel and registration information for the next conference is generally available on the website by late March or early April.

SESSION PROPOSAL SUBMISSION
All proposals for ATHE conferences are submitted via an online form. The form is made available by no later than September 15, and submissions are due by November 1 of each year for the following year’s conference. Seminar papers are also submitted via this form.

SEMINAR TOPIC SUBMISSION
Seminar topics are submitted two years in advance. For instance, in the fall of 2007, we will be accepting submission of seminar topics for the conference in the summer of 2009. Seminar papers are submitted each year via the online session proposal form.

ONLINE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION
While ATHE accepts reservations by mail or fax, many conference attendees choose to register via the online conference registration system.

ATHENews - ATHENews, the newsletter for the organization, is the primary vehicle Focus Groups and the Governing Council use to communicate news about the organization to the membership and to the broader public and is generally published every two weeks. It is delivered via e-mail to members and those subscribed to ATHECAST. Shaun Sewell is the editor of ATHENews and can be reached at athenews@athe.org. Governing Council members, Focus Group Representatives, Organizational Members, and Affiliate Members can submit items via e-mail for inclusion in ATHENews.

Bylaws - As an incorporated 501(c)(3) organization, ATHE serves in the public
trust. The Bylaws are available to anyone who wishes to review them.

ATHE’s Strategic Plan

Operations Manual - The Operations Manual – which aids Governing Council Members and Focus Group Representatives in the daily business of ATHE – will be available online soon.

ATHE’s Mission, Vision, and Position

Minutes - The minutes of the organization’s meetings are available online.

Focus Groups and Governing Council - ATHE has 23 Focus Groups and Governing Council, most of whose members chair a standing committee of the organization.

Affiliate Members - ATHE has formal relationships with several academic or theatre-oriented organizations.

Fellowships and Grants - ATHE has several grant programs
including: grants for guest attendance at the conference, grants for focus group projects (not related to conference), and fellowships for graduate students to attend the conference.

Awards - ATHE has eight awards including the Career Achievement Awards, Outstanding Teacher Award, Outstanding Textbook/Book-length Study Award, Research Award for Outstanding Article, and the Research Award for Excellence in Editing.

Advocacy InfoBank - The ATHE Advocacy InfoBank is a one-stop shop for members who want to advocate for the field of theatre in higher education. ATHE has also prepared a series if papers and reports on various issues including advocacy, outcomes assessment, and tenure evaluation is available.

Journals - The ATHE Research and Publications Committee has prepared a list
of journals which accept theatre- and performance-related articles.

ATHECAST- A listserv moderator reviews all postings and limits them to theatre-related inquiries only (for instance, recent inquiry was posted regarding signed theatre performances). Members and non-members can subscribe to ATHECAST. To subscribe, send a blank e-mail to: athecast-subscribe@lists.athe.org. To post, send an e-mail to athecast@lists.athe.org.

ATHEMEMBERLIST - This listserv is hosted by ATHE and is for members only. Members who have updated their e-mail address with Johns Hopkins University Press, our member database provider, are automatically subscribed. The Administrative Director and the Governing Council use ATHEMEMBERLIST to send out important communications for members only, such as election ballots.

SPECIALIZED LISTSERVS - The Association also maintains several listservs that the leadership uses to conduct business. ATHEOC is a discussion list for members of the Operations Committee. ATHEGC is a discussion list for members of the Governing Council. ATHEFGRCP is a discussion list for ATHE's Focus Group Representatives and Conference Planners. Members of these groups are subscribed to this listserv following their election; to be subscribed, contact Nancy Erickson, Administrative Director (nericksn@aol.com), with your correct e-mail address. Various focus groups also have their own listservs. To find out more about those listservs, please visit the focus groups’ web pages.

VIEWING: The ATHE Job Bank is a job listing service provided by ATHE; viewing postings is free for members. The username and password for the job bank are distributed monthly via ATHEWIRE. Non-members can view the Job Bank
for a small fee ($30 for a one academic year subscription). To make payment, please contact Shaun Sewell, ATHE Web Communications Manager, at comm@athe.org.

POSTING: Posting to the ATHE Job Bank is an economical way to be sure that more than 1,700 theatre faculty in all disciplines know about your job opening! ATHE Organizational Members can post a position announcement to the job bank for free. Send your post (maximum 200 words) to Shaun Sewell at comm@athe.org. If you are not anorganizational member, posting to our job bank is still economical for you! Our price is just $.20 (20 cents) per word, to a maximum of 200 words (or $40 per ad, every word over 200 is $1 per word). Your ad runs on our site for 60 days from the date of posting. Send your post to Shaun Sewell. ATHE will invoice you for your posting.

Johns Hopkins University Press publishes Theatre Journal and Theatre Topics, ATHE’s two journals, processes membership orders and maintains the membership database. Their online member services include membership renewal, access to the journals, and contact information update. Your member number is required to access these services. (Note: The ATHE membership year is June 1 to May 31. The next membership cycle is June 1, 2008 to May 31, 2009).

MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed, higher education, online learning materials created by registered members, and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy in order to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses. ATHE is an institutional partner in the MERLOT project, and ATHE members are contributors and peer reviewers. Each year at the conference, sessions are held to teach ATHE members about MERLOT and its uses.

Although not currently live, In Medias Res will be an online database of performance video recordings and sound recordings, as well as CD-ROMs and online resources on performance. Types of performance included will be theatre, dance, performance art, staged opera, musical theater, popular performance, improvisation, mime, puppetry,
and related genres. The database will list resources, vendor and access information, and reviews (when provided). In Medias Res will be valuable to teachers wishing to introduce students to styles, works, methods, and important people in performance history; researchers investigating the work of particular directors, actors and performance companies; and, librarians planning to add these resources to their libraries' collections. In Medias Res is a joint project of the Theatre Library Association (TLA), the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR), and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE), produced with the support of the Yale University Library.