Northeast

Northeast Regional Group Report

Mary Beth Barth, Hamilton College

Current Officers:
President: Mary Beth Barth
Vice President: Cindy Evans
Treasurer: Marianne Crusius

Newsletter Editor
Kathleen Lewis

Number of newsletters published last year: 1

Meetings held in the past year:

Location	Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges
Theme	NEALL 2000 Connecting with Technology
Date(s)	March 3-5, 2000
Attendance	63

Describe the health of your organization.

NEALL is a happy, healthy organization--both fiscally and membership-wise. We do not have a precise membership count since the database accumulates names based on attendance at conferences over the years. Our conference fee includes membership. Currently we have 208 names in the 99-00 database, which includes the past several years.

Initiatives include the following: To encourage additional participation by Graduate Students, K - 12 and high school teachers, NEALL offered $200/person toward travel, lodging and food expenses to attend Neall 2000. Immediate past-president Mike Jones undertook the necessary steps to obtain incorporation/non-profit status for NEALL and acquired the .com and .org domain names for NEALL.

Issues to address.

How to encourage conference presentations by and for lab directors and meet demand from members to offer more workshops, share practical advice, etc.in addition to the showcasing of faculty projects.
How to maintain a proper balance between faculty involvement in NEALL/IALL and lab director participation and issues.
Merger or collaboration of IALL with CALICO.
Creation of a logo for IALL which includes "technology" without changing the acronym. One idea is IALL with the top of the T underlining IALL and echnology written below in small letters.