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CIT Board Meeting
AIM Chat Room
September 7, 2008

Persons present: Carolyn Ball, Brian Morrison, Cindy Volk, Laura Braucht, Annette Miner, Doug Bowen-Bailey, Leslie Greer

Absent: Cindy Farnham, Kellie Stewart

President, Carolyn Ball opened the meeting at 7:00 PM, MST.

August minutes were approved.

Convention Business

  1. We are at capacity on exhibit tables.

  2. We do not have a sponsor for the VIP reception. Cindy V will check into a local restaurant for the reception.

  3. We do not have a Yucahu sponsor for the convention. We will put the CIT logo on the flashdrive. Doug will get a quote for the flashdrives and email this to the board.

  4. Annette has approval for printing and shipping materials to the convention for the Journal Committee business at the convention.

  5. Discussion regarding Certified Deaf Interpreters at the convention. Annette will talk with the Interpreter Coordinator for the convention and ask her to review the CDI applications that were received and also to contact people who inquired about applying. Funds are approved to hire CDIs for the convention.

  6. Funds are approved at $3,500 for AV costs for the convention.

  7. We have reserved an FM system from RID for the convention, but are in need of 3 or 4 more. Board members will check around to see if they can borrow additional FM systems.

  8. Approved funds for Myrelis to spend up to $15 each on gifts for volunteers.

  9. Approved funds for Myrelis to spend $200 on decorations for the convention.

  10. Tours at the convention- Doug will send out a reminder email to people about signing up for tours. He will mention the need to schedule interpreters for tours.

  11. Laura stated that there were 3 nominations for the Mary Stotler award and a winner has been chosen. Laura will get the information from Cindy F regarding where to order the plaque.

  12. Laura stated that there is one nomination so far for each of the four board positions.

  13. David Hale from Sorenson will speak briefly at the convention following the opening ceremony in order to announce the IEP award winner and to present their award.

  14. Everyone needs to email Leslie your arrival and departure times for Puerto Rico. She will arrange for a shuttle for us upon arrival.

Journal Committee Report

The focus of the journal has been changed to a combination research and practitioner journal. The new mission statement for the journal now reads:

The Journal is a refereed international journal that specializes in the education of spoken and signed language interpreters for the purpose of promoting dialogue through evidence- and practice-based research.

The Journal seeks articles that provide critical analysis and pragmatic information on various topics of interest to our field, as well as incorporating features such as:

  • Reviews (publications, curricula, instructional media)

  • Course profiles

  • Debate on provocative teaching and learning issues

  • Reports on presentations and events

  • Dissertation abstracts

We are envisioning an online journal, posted on our website for members, with various print options available, including downloading and printing or the use of www.Lulu.com where members can order printed, bound copies and have it shipped to them at their cost.

We will be discussing all of this at the journal committee forum at the conference and plan to officially announce that there will be a journal at the conference. We also intend to announce a call for the editor and editorial board. 

  1. Discussion regarding payment for a journal editor. It was decided to offer $5,000 for the first journal due to the extra work in start-up. In the years following, we will offer $2,500 for editing the journal.

The meeting was adjourned at 9:15 PM MST.