Join AATSEEL or Renew your membership in 2010

[Sibelan Forrester]

Dear subscribers to SEELANGS,

		JOIN OR RENEW IN 2010

As you may know, the Annual Meeting of the American Association of 
Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages (AATSEEL) takes place at 
the same time and in the same city as the annual convention of the 
Modern Language Association. The MLA has decided to change its regular 
meeting dates, beginning in 2011, from December 27-30 to the first 
Thursday through Sunday in January (following January 2). AATSEEL will 
follow that practice. Thus there will be no AATSEEL annual meeting in 
2010; we will next convene in Los Angeles in early January, 2011.

Because of this change, there will be a one-time adjustment in the way 
membership dues will be collected over the next 18 months. AATSEEL will 
collect a single set of membership dues for the period from January 1, 
2010 to June 30, 2011. These dues will be prorated to account for their 
covering 18, rather than 12, months of membership: they will be equal to 
one-and-a-half times the twelve-month 2009 rate (which will remain 
unchanged). Thereafter, beginning on July 1, 2011, dues will once again 
be gathered on a 12-month basis, and will cover the period from July 1 
to June 30 (i.e. the 2011-2012 dues will cover from 7/1/2011 to 
6/30/2012), a fiscal year or academic year rather than a calendar year. 
Please note that memebrship dues for students and graduate students are 
an exception: 18-month membership from January 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011 
remains a bargain at $20.00.

You can renew your AATSEEL membership for 2010-11 online, at

http://www.aatseel.org/

as of January 25, 2010.  We urge you to renew as soon as you are able. 
Your membership will entitle you to receive all four issues of Volume 54 
of the Slavic and East European Journal, and six issues of the 
Newsletter (February 2010 – April 2011). Members will also be able to 
vote in both upcoming elections, in the spring of 2010 and 2011.

Best wishes,

Caryl Emerson, President
Patricia Zody, Executive Director

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