[URBANTH-L]Conference registration fees and alternative formats

[Lisa Knauer]

Thanks, Setha, for weighing in. We will see what we can work out .... 
I'm glad to see AAA is rethinking the fee structure (as well as the 
meeting structure).
Regards,
LMK

  Setha Low wrote:
>  There are non member waivers available to individuals who are invited to present given either by the AAA program chair or Lucille Horn. There are a limited number and I do not know how many are left. This was announced at the section assembly.  But that still leaves the section or individual paying for 200 dollars for their registration. We have for this one time only allowed non members community activists and K-12 teachers to also have reduced fees. 
>
> We are going to rework all of these fees but we are facing a big problem of how to fund this reduction. I agree that as we move out into the public world that we must resolve this conflict but I know the virginia is interested in rethinking the meeting as a whole. Rest assured that these fee problems are on our agenda for our spring meeting. If you have questions please contact lucille horn or carla fernandez in the AAA office. Best. Setha
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> From: Deborah Pellow <dpellow at maxwell.syr.edu>
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> Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 21:54:15 
> To: 'Lisa Knauer'<lknauer at umassd.edu>; URBANTH-L at lists.ysu.edu<URBANTH-L at lists.ysu.edu>
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> Hi all --
>
> We brought this up at the Section Assembly meeting at AAA in November. I was concerned in part because we go through this every year with the interlocutor series, for which SUNTA is dunned $361. We asked about waiving the registration fee at the Section Assembly meeting. The problem for AAA is that the meeting is the way AAA makes money. The best we could get out of them is that the Association will make the whole process more transparent.
>
> Perhaps if the membership at large made more noise?
>
> deborah
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> Deborah Pellow
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: urbanth-l-bounces at lists.ysu.edu [mailto:urbanth-l-bounces at lists.ysu.edu] On Behalf Of Lisa Knauer
> Sent: Saturday, March 28, 2009 1:47 PM
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> Subject: [URBANTH-L]Conference registration fees and alternative formats
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> Dear list
> I'm wondering if anyone on this list knows if AAA will ever reduce or 
> waive the registration fees for non-AAA members.  The high fees seem 
> especially steep and very ironic since this year's conference explicitly 
> calls for non-traditional formats. I co-organized a panel on 
> immigration, and we want to include an immigrant advocate (i.e. a 
> grassroots organizer) as a discussant. $361 seems like a lot to ask an 
> organizer to pay for a registration fee if he/she is only attending AAA 
> to participate in a single panel (and is not an academic who might be 
> able to get university funding). 
> Any thoughts?
> Lisa Maya Knauer
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