- Nominations are now open for many LSA Awards and for 2013 LSA Fellows.
- Read the Call for Abstracts for the 2013 Annual Meeting (Boston, January 3-6).
- View the Call for Workshop Proposals for the 2013 Linguistic Institute.
LSA Committee Nominations for 2012
Nominations are being accepted for service on the LSA's Open and Appointed committees. This is an excellent opportunity for you to expand your professional networks, enhance your administrative portfolio, and make a difference in areas about which you care deeply. There are committees focused on:
the LSA and its activities (Membership Services and Information Technology, Technology Advisory Committee);
the field of linguistics as a whole (Status of Women in Linguistics, Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics);
the wider public (Social and Political Concerns, Language in the School Curriculum).
A list of the LSA's committees is available online. Note that LSA committees are of different types with regard to how they are populated: open and appointed.
Open Committees
Open committees are, as the name suggests, open to service by any current LSA member. A potential member need only advise the committee's chair or the LSA's Director of Membership and Meetings of her/his interest in order to serve on the Committee. The LSA's open committees are:
- Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation (CELP)
- Ethics Committee
- Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics (CEDL)
- Fundraising Committee
- Language in the School Curriculum Committee (LiSC)
- Linguistics in Higher Education Committee (LiHeC)
- Committee on Membership Services and Information Technology (COMSIT)
- Public Relations Committee
- Committee on Social and Political Policies
- Committee on Student Issues and Concerns (COSIAC)
- Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics (COSWL)
- Technology Advisory Committee (TAC)
To serve on an open committee, please indicate your interest by e-mailing David Robinson, the LSA's Director of Membership and Meetings, at drobinson@lsadc.org. You may do so now or at any time during the year.
Appointed Committees
Some committees are appointed partly or entirely by the President of the LSA, based on the recommendations of the Committee's chair, other relevant LSA leaders, and self- or other-nominations from the LSA membership. The LSA's appointed committees are:
- Advisory to Programs Committee
- Awards Committee
- Bloomfield Book Award Committee
- Honorary Members Committee
- Nominating Committee
- Program Committee
To nominate yourself or another LSA member for service on an appointed committee, please e-mail David Robinson, the LSA's Director of Membership and Meetings, at drobinson@lsadc.org BY FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 2011 with the following information:
the nominee's name, affiliation, and e-mail address;
the committee(s) for which the individual is being nominated;
a brief statement explaining why the nominee would be a suitable member of the committee(s) in question.
If the nomination is for someone other than yourself, please ascertain the individual's membership status and willingness to serve before submitting the nomination. Students and members of groups underrepresented in the LSA (relative to their demographic presence in the U.S. as a whole) are especially encouraged to apply.
Nominations for appointed committees will be forwarded to committee chairs, who will recommend new committee members to the LSA's Committee on Committee and Delegate appointments. Appointees will be notified in May, after the LSA's Executive Committee meeting, and will officially take office in January, at the conclusion of the 2012 Annual Meeting.
