Southwest

Southwest Regional Group Report

Victoria K. Williams, University of California-Berkeley

Current Officers:
Victoria K. Williams, President
Renate Albrecht, Treasurer

Number of newsletters published last year: none

Meetings held in the past year:

	Meeting 1	Meeting 2
Location	California State University, Northridge (Patricia Miller, Conference organizer)	Brigham Young University (Harold Hendricks, Conference organizer)
Theme	Collaborative efforts in technology-mediated teaching and learning	Computer-based Testing
Date(s)	November 5 - 6, 1999	May 5 - 6, 2000
Attendance	25	25

Describe the health of your organization.
SALT is in pretty good health, although we could use better nutrition and exercise! We basically maintain the status quo; that is, the old guard regulars present at and attend our regional conferences. Communications are casual and informal, which again works well for the old guard folks, but isn't as inclusive as more formal communications would be for new or potential members. Our main accomplishment has been in holding regular Fall and Spring conferences on interesting and substantive topics. We also manage to have a great deal of fun!

Issues to address:

By-laws, do we have any? Are there model by-laws for regional groups?

We don't have a good mechanism for electing officers.

We don't have a membership database. Are there membership database models? If so, is there a way these can be shared?

We haven't produced a newsletter in a number of years.

Our region is now of such a size that getting participation is a concern.