Survey of Full-Time and Part-Time Employment. Last winter, along with a number of other scholarly societies, the Society surveyed departments and programs regarding their use of full-time and part-time faculty. The results of all these surveys will be combined and a final report published under the auspices of the Coalition on the Academic Workforce (CAW) later this year. In the meantime, a report on responses from linguistics departments and programs can be obtained from the Secretariat.
Who Owns Online Courses and Course Materials? A monograph produced from an invitational symposium on this subject by the Pew Learning and Technology Program is available at: http://www.center.rpi.edu/PewSym/mono2.html.
Decade of Behavior. The Linguistic Society's contribution to the exhibit mounted to initiate the Decade of Behavior activities on 25 September 2000 was an interactive display on Lumbee (now standing in the Museum of the Native American Resource Center in Pembroke, NC). The Society is grateful to Walt Wolfram and his students, Ben Tobert and Becky Childs, for their willingness to participate in the launch event.
Consortium of Social Science Associations. Thanks to Gregory Ward for representing the society at the 12-14 October 2000 COSSA workshop to develop research initiatives for the National Science Foundation.
University of Chicago Presidential Inauguration. LSA is grateful to Thomas A. Sebeok for his willingness to represent the society at the recent inauguration of David Randel as the 12th president of the University of Chicago.
National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage. The Society thanks D. Terence Langendoen for his contributions on behalf of the LSA to the recent Workshop on Language and Literature sponsored by NINCH.
Chief Illiniwek Resolution and Motions. 1 July 2000 was the deadline for ballots concerning this resolution and these motions [see March 2000 LSA Bulletin] which were passed by members attending the LSA business meeting, 7 January 2000, in Chicago, IL. Passage of these requires a majority of those voting and a total of those voting in favor must be at least 2.5% of the personal membership (or about 100 members). Over 100 ballots were received. A majority approved the resolution to 'urge the administration and Trustees of the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign to replace "Chief Illiniwek" with a symbol that does not promote inaccurate, anachronistic, and damaging stereotypes of Native American people...' and the motion that the LSA not return to the university campus as long as Chief Illiniwek remains an official symbol of the university. However, a majority did not approve the motion to boycott the state of Illinois as an Annual meeting site until the official symbol is changed. A letter was sent to Dr. Michael Aiken, chancellor of the university, informing him of these results.
Change of Address. Please notify the Secretariat when you move. It is costly and time consuming to replace journals and bulletins that could not be delivered the first time because of a bad address.
2001 LSA Elections. Ballots to elect a Vice-President/President-Elect 2001, two Executive Committee members, the Secretary-Treasurer, and the Editor of Language were mailed in early August along with dues notices for 2001. If you did not receive this mailing, please contact the Secretariat immediately as the deadline for returning ballots is 1 December 2000.
Directory of Programs in Linguistics. Thank you to all who responded to our request for updated information for the directory. The material should be up on the LSA website shortly.
Linguistic Summer Program 2002. The Linguistic Society will cosponsor a summer program hosted by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft at Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf, Germany, 15 July - 2 August 2002. The theme is: Formal and Functional Linguistics: Approaches, History, and Results. Dieter Stein is the director of the program, and Ellen Prince (U Penn) is the associate director. The program will offer basic and advanced specialized credit courses on the model of the Summer Schools of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft and the LSA Linguistic Institutes. In addition, it will be preceded by a two-week session for foreign participants in German language and culture, focusing on the Rhinelands (Düsseldorf and Cologne area). The LSA Bulletin and the LSA website will provide more information about this unique opportunity as it becomes available.