Minutes MwALT Business Meeting 10/20/2007 at the Michigan League, Ann Arbor 36 were present at the MwALT lunch and business meeting. Lia Plakans, the president, began by thanking the University of Michigan for their hard work in hosting this successful conference and there was a round of applause for them. Future Meetings: The 2008 meeting will be hosted by the the University of Iowa’s .ESL Programs The 2009 Meeting will be at the University of Purdue, 2010 will be at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. (Institutions wanting to host are invited to make proposals for other years) Selected papers from the 2006 meeting at the U of Illinois, Urbana Champaign are being organized for a special issue of Language Assessment Quarterly by Melissa Bowles Treasurer’s Report: Pedro Cordova reported a balance of $4,183.17 (before any expenses from this year’s conference) Donations from U of Michigan Press and Lidget Green Inc. were announced. $355 in conference dues and memberships has been collected so far at the meeting. Student Representatives Report: Jiyoung Kim, University of Illinois, presented a report on behalf of the MwALT Student Representatives. They had been in charge of this year’s Works in Progress Session. They had created an evaluation form to use with vetting and accepting proposals which had worked well. The committee was thanked for their hard work and a new student committee was elected for next year. Haiying Cao, Purdue University caoh@purdue.edu Lixia Cheng, Purdue University clixia@purdue.edu Forest Platzek, University of Lancaster Forest@lidgetgreen.org Tetyana Sydorenko, Michigan State University sydoren1@msu.edu Erik Voss, Iowa State University evoss@iastate.edu A drawing for donated books has been set up as the final event of the meeting to encourage paid up memberships. It is hoped that all present will publicize next year’s meeting(which will be in fall 2008) and encourage others to prepare papers and attend the conference The 2006 minutes were were approved as read. The meeting was adjourned at 1:25pm Submitted by Felicity Douglas, MwALT Secretary   HOME - MISSION - INVITATION - APPLICATION - MEETING - CONFERENCES - LINKS