[Linganth] Update from SLA President, Bonnie Urciuoli

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Update from SLA President, Bonnie Urciuoli <http://wp.me/p1q4wy-1ew>

The AAA announcement for the spring balloting is now open.  I write to
remind everyone of the importance of voting.  In addition to the AAA
ballots (including AAA president-elect), the positions of particular
concern for SLA membership are the *SLA president-elect, the Linguistic
Seat on the Executive Board, and the Linguistic Seat on the Nominations
Committee. *

In addition, you will see an amendment to the by-laws, which reads as
follows:

   1. The terms of office for members-at-large shall be three years,
   commencing at the conclusion of the Annual Meeting of the American
   Anthropological Association.

At the November 2016 SLA executive committee meeting, the committee members
voted to add this language to Article VII (which sets out the composition
of the SLA executive committee) specifying the term for members-at-large as
three years.  Thus, this amendment would be added to Article VII.  (
http://linguisticanthropology.org/about/by-laws)

Our rationale is as follows.  SLA by-law article VI #5 specifies the term
for elected officers (president, secretary-treasurer, president-elect) as
two years.  Article VII items 1-4 specify that the executive committee
consists of the elected officers and two elected members at large, and lays
out what the executive committee does.  But nowhere in this article (or
elsewhere in the bylaws) is a term specified for the two members-at-large.
SLA has up to now treated the two-year term as customary for members as
well as officers.  But since SLA has undertaken the development of a spring
conference, the executive committee believes it would be productive to
elect each member to a three year term, in order to provide the board with
greater continuity, depth of experience, and institutional memory for such
undertakings.  The new bylaw language would go into effect at the close of
the 2017 meetings.

Many thanks for your attention and continued support.

Bonnie Urciuoli

President, Society of Linguistic Anthropology

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