[Students-l] ASIST Students and Advisors - announcements, deadlines, more!

[Chirag Shah]

Hello,

You're receiving this email because you are an ASIST Student Chapter member and/or a Student Chapter advisor. 

First off, let us introduce ourselves - Chirag Shah (chirags at rutgers.edu) from Rutgers University and Daniel Alemneh (Daniel.Alemneh at unt.edu) from University of North Texas. We are the Student Chapter Representatives to the ASIST board. What this means is that we (1) overlook the operations of various ASIST Student Chapters around the world; (2) help and guide the chapters with membership management and other resources they may need; and (3) represent student chapters interests and concerns to the ASIST board.

Most times student chapters are run and managed locally and you wouldn't see or need us in your regular activities. There are a few things, however, that you may want to keep in mind as you run these activities and reach out to us as needed:

- We have an email list that you can join by going to http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/students-l and signing up. Once joined, you can send a message by emailing to students-l at asis.org. Typical messages on this email list are about conference announcements, job postings, and other opportunities for students.

- Make sure your information (advisor name, email, website, etc.) is accurate on the ASIST Student Chapter page at http://www.asis.org/Chapters/chapters-student.html. If you find any inaccuracies, please email us immediately.

- If you hold an election, please inform us about the results. 

- Every year, July 1st is a standing deadline for the chapters to send their annual reports. This report is typically compiled by the advisor as well as the officers of the student chapter. The report also serves as the self-nomination for the Student Chapter of the Year award (announced at that year's ASIST annual meeting).

- Remember, this year we are also running a new competition. Here are the details:
	- Every ASIST student chapter that started before June 2013 is qualified.
	- No need for any submission. We will use your annual chapter report (due July 1st) to extract the membership information.
	- The criteria will be based on % increase (only positive growth) on membership, and not the absolute values. This way each chapter can have a fair chance irrespective of their size or geo-location.
	- The % will be calculated considering the chapter's membership count at the beginning of the year (as of July 1, 2013) and at the end of the year (as of June 30, 2014).
	- The prizes will be free registrations to the ASIST Annual Meeting (AM) - this year to be held in Seattle. Three prizes will be given:
		- First prize: three AM registrations
		- Second prize: two AM registrations
		- Third prize: one AM registration

- September 30th is the deadline for requesting funds from ASIST for student chapter. More information on this will come in due course.

- At the ASIST annual meeting, the student chapter advisors are invited (and highly encouraged) to meet with us and others from ASIST. More details will follow as we get close to this year's ASIST conference.

- If you did not submit the annual report as a part of self-nomination in July, you need to submit your annual report by October 30th.

For your reference, here's the link for the full manual for student chapters: http://www.asis.org/AboutASIS/StudentChapterManual.pdf


Sincerely,
Chirag Shah, Rutgers University
Daniel Alemneh, University of North Texas


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Best,
Chirag Shah, PhD
Assistant Professor of Information and Computer Science
Rutgers University
4 Huntington St, New Brunswick NJ 08901
p. (848) 932-8807	f. (732) 932-6916
http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags





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