Call for (student) volunteers: American Association for Applied Linguistics, Washington (DC) area, 3/03

[Scott McGinnis]

PLEASE do not use your "reply" function if you are interested, but respond directly to the student volunteer
coordinator, Dr. Sarah Shin, at shin at umbc.edu .




  LOOKING FOR STUDENT VOLUNTEERS! 
  exciting opportunity to be involved in a national conference! 

  AAAL (American Association for Applied Linguistics) 2003 will be held at the Sheraton National Hotel in Arlington, Virginia (in Crystal City, 5 minutes away from Reagan National Airport), March 22-25, 2003. 

  What you give: 
    a.. 4 hours (one shift) on an assigned duty. Duties primarily include working at the registration desk, stuffing conference packets, helping presenters and exhibitors set up their equipment, assisting with office back-up, AV set-up, sign production and set-up. 
  What you get: 
    a.. Student volunteers get free registration (student registration is normally $65). 
    b.. Volunteers willing to work more than one shift (4 hours) will be assigned to the publishers' exhibits (on a first come first served basis) and may receive free books unsold at the end of the conference. Last year's exhibitors included John Benjamins, Sage, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Longman, and Multilingual Matters. 
    c.. You get to attend a national conference for free and have a chance to meet and network with researchers, educators, and other graduate students from across the country. 
  What you do now: 
    a.. Fill out the volunteer information sheet found on AAAL's website (http://www.aaal.org/aaal2003/). Click on "Be a AAAL 2003 Conference Volunteer!" and it will take you to the Volunteer Information Sheet. Print out the form, fill it out, and send it to Professor Sarah Shin, local co-chair for AAAL 2003, at the address below by January 31, 2003. 
    b.. If you have a preferred time, choose from among 10 different shifts. 
    c.. You will receive a shift assignment by February 10th. 
  We need about 100 volunteers to make this conference run smoothly. Please do consider volunteering. It will be fun! 
  Any questions, contact me at shin at umbc.edu 

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  Sarah J. Shin, Ph.D. 
  Assistant Professor 
  M.A. Program in ESOL/Bilingual Education 
  Department of Education 
  University of Maryland Baltimore County 
  1000 Hilltop Circle 
  Baltimore, MD 21250, USA 
    
  Phone: (410) 455-2485 
  Fax: (410) 455-3986 
  Email: shin at umbc.edu 
  http://www.umbc.edu/education 
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