Newsletter

[Donald McKechnie]

List,

I agree with Fred on this issue. We need to continue the outreach for
now and paper is the best way. The CAUT Committee in conjunction with
the Home Office certainly can formulate a plan to reduce the amount of
paper copies sent. After sitting in on Del's class on the Piano and the
Environment, anything we can do to help sustain a very fragile
eco-system is fine by me.

Don


> Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2002 16:09:10 -0600
> From: Fred Sturm
> Subject: Re: Newsletter
>
> 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
>