Newsletter

[Jeff Tanner]

While I agree that email and internet is definitely the future of
communication, I've got to second Fred's reasoning in this matter.  There
are only currently maybe 50% of southeastern full time CAUTs who
participate on this list, therefore probably likewise in surveys and
discussions, and the percentage of contract CAUTs is much lower.

I don't need a mailed newsletter, but it looks to me like those of us who
participate are a small minority of the CAUT world.  The rest of the CAUTs
need to hear from us.

Jeff

Fred wrote:
>I think the purpose of a mailed newsletter is more for outreach than
>for anything else - we're trying to reach cauts who aren't on this list,
>hoping to get them involved. Success is dependent on the degree to which
>we have an adequate mailing list. Don told me he had developed a list of
>about 400 members and 150 non-members. The caut-list has something like
>240. One thing we've been talking about is having a line on the
>membership renewal form asking whether the member is a caut. There has
>been an impression among the general PTG membership that the caut
>community is a "closed elite club" made up exclusively of full-timers -
>an impression we're trying to change.
>	So while I agree that a paper newsletter is a lot of work, hard to get
>together, and of limited usefulness, I think we should continue to
>produce one on a limited basis for the next few years simply for the
>purpose of widening our reach.
>	We are hoping to do a mailing to administrators/dept heads sometime in
>the next few months, with information about the guidelines, PTG, and
>various other references as part of the overall effort to promote PTG
>and PTG membership. Electronic communication will definitely be the
>major thrust in the long range future, but there continues to be a place
>for paper IMO.
>	So while I agree with everything you say, Scott, I think we should
>continue for the time being.
>Regards,
>Fred Sturm
>University of New Mexico
>