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Hi, I’m Becca Minor the CIT Secretary. I have 3 announcements
First, I am making a PPT to be shown at the conference and I need your help to collect information on any ASL/interpreting teachers, mentors or researchers who have passed away since the 2020. Please send me their name, pictures and where they worked. [email protected]
Second is the call for credentialing committee to help check with signing in members and checking their credentials before the Business meeting on 9/21. If you are interested in volunteering for this activity please contact me. [email protected]
Third, an online form has been created for collecting motions for the Business meeting. This form may be used to submit motions to be considered at the meeting until 9/20 11:59pm. All sections of the form must be completed for the motion to be brought to the floor.
All proposals must be proposed and seconded by current CIT voting members.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSePxN09HfxKfQ8uDrfCEQTEFSICRXDv1KWJYlCl5msxsqf_Ow/viewform?usp=sf_link

White woman in a purple polo with CIT logo, short brown hair.
Hello CIT Members! Our CIT conference is quickly approaching, starting on September 19. I am excited to meet you and many of you there. Our website has information about the conference. If you go to our website and click on the conference link, you will see another link for conference documents. On the Conference documents page, you will find information about the workshop descriptions, the schedule and we added in information pertaining to COVID. We ask that you please read that document.
In the past our conferences had row seating where the chairs were connected to one another. We have asked the hotel staff to separate the chairs so there is space between each seat.
We are thrilled that we will se many of you at the conference! Hope to see you soon!

President Jessica Bentley-Sassaman

CIT Treasurer Stephen Fitzmaurice explains the cost-savings plan for conference 2022.

Hello, this is Stephen Fitzmaurice, the CIT Treasurer. I wanted to give you a brief message about the cost for the 2022 conference coming up soon. If you compare years ago, the 2010 CIT conference, the early bird was $350. Registration for the early bird 2022 conference is $450. This means over the yeas, there has only been an increase of $100. As you may be aware, many conferences lose money, that has hurt CIT financially. Something we have done starting with the 2018 conference is, we have separated out the banquet cost. If you can afford to join us for the banquet, great, but it is no longer automatically added to your registration. The same holds true for this 2022 conference. We know that your money and time are valuable. CIT's goal is to prove an excellent conference at a low cost. However, CIT can no longer afford to lose money on conferences.
We hope to see you soon at our next CIT conference, we know you will enjoy the learning experiences there! It will be a great conference with a reasonably low cost.

(9/6/2022) Ben Davis (CIT Director of Professional Development), white man in purple CIT polo shirt with short red hair.

Hello, my name is Ben Davis. I'm the Director of Professional Development for CIT. We're excited about our upcoming conference. Our conference will be hosted in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. I wanted to take this opportunity to share some information about the conference so that you can be prepared and ready to attend. First, I want to talk about some transportation options. Most people who will be flying in for the conference in King of Prussia will be flying into the Philadelphia Airport. If you drive a rental car or take an Uber or Lyft, it takes about 45 minutes to an hour to get there depending on traffic. There are also public transportation options. This would include taking a train from the Philadelphia Airport to downtown Philadelphia, and transferring to a bus that takes you to King of Prussia. That whole commute takes about an hour and 15 minutes, again depending on the level of traffic. I also wanted to talk a little bit about the CEU process. Every morning during the conference, we will be sending out an email to all conference participants. In that email will be a list of the workshops being offered that day. Each workshop will have a link to the CEU evaluation form. When you go into workshops, there will also be a physical sign-in form. At the end of the workshop, you should go in and fill out the evaluation form. For CEU verification we will be taking the sign-in sheet from the workshop and comparing them to the evaluations that are turned in. To get credit for the workshop, you would need to have both signed in for the workshop and filled out the CEU form. Just so that you know it'll take about 60 days for the CEUs to process and show up on your transcript. I wanted to also give a final reminder to everybody that our schedule and other conference-related documents are available on our website at cit-asl.org From the homepage, you can go to the top part where there's the Resources tab. And from there, you will be able to select conference documents. There all different types of documents on that page. There's a daily schedule with workshop descriptions. There's a schedule at a glance and several other documents available on that page. As you get ready to travel and attend the conference, make sure that you look through those resources and know how you're going to get to the conference, what you need for CEUs, and take a look at the schedule and see which workshops you are going to avail yourself of as we learn and finally, after four years, have the opportunity to get together and reconnect. We'll see you in King of Prussia!