New England
Membership for the 2011-2012 year
Please consider joining New England AHEAD this year. Your $25.00 membership fee includes a reduced rate to our conferences, the ability to join one of the subcommittees, voting rights and access to additional resources. Click in this link (coming soon) for a membership form. Please fill out the form and mail it back to the address listed on it. You may pay by check or credit card. If paying by check, include the check with the form. If paying by credit card, note that on your form and click on the "Buy Now" button below.
Please note that there is an additional $3.00 surcharge for credit card payments.Membership has its perks! Please save the date for the following spring events:
Download "Spring Events: Save the Date" flyer.
February 29th from 12:30-1:30 (webinar) FREE
What's Your Role? Exploring the Connection between College Mental Health and Disability Services Providers
Maura Mulligan, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Boston, MA
April 19th 3:00-4:30, University of Massachusetts Boston (audio conference) FREE
Technology Accessibility: Transforming our Institutions with New Guidance and New Perspectives
Teresa Haven, Arizona State University
June 7th 3:00-4:30, Suffolk University, Boston, MA (audio conference) FREE
Postsecondary Education for Students with Intellectual Disabilities: The Role for Disability Services
Cate Weir, University of Massachusetts Boston
Debra Hart, University of Massachusetts Boston
Meg Grigal, University of Massachusetts Boston
June 1st 9:30 – 3:30, Northern Essex Community College, Haverhill, MA (in-person) FREE
AHEAD-New England Annual Spring Conference
How Do I Do This Again? ADAAA and OCR Compliance
Details coming soon
Discounted rates for members and students
RSVP to Kirsten Behling at kbehling@suffolk.edu
Join a New England AHEAD Subcommittee
At our breakfast meeting in Seattle it was decided that this coming year will be a rebuilding year for the organization. The subcommittees and co-chairs are:
- The Membership Committee – co-chaired by Paul Hastings from Wheelock College and Bridget McNamee from Wentworth Institute of Technology
Responsibility: The Membership Committee serves as a liaison between the board/leadership and the membership. The committee assesses the interests and needs of members, encourages participation in New England AHEAD events, and works to increase membership.
Specific Duties: - Solicits new members among Institutions of Higher Education, and other organizations, in the New England Area...
- Promotes benefits and services included in membership
- Tracks non-renewals after (date) and provides outreach to encourage membership renewal
- Partners with the programming and outreach committees to Maintain and update the membership brochure
- Partners with the programming and outreach committees to Oversee the annual/bi-annual membership survey to evaluate changing interests and needs among members
- The Event Committee – co-chaired by Lori Corcoran from Quinsigamond Community College and Susan Edelman from the University of Vermont
Responsibility: Event Committee serves as a liaison between the board/leadership and organizational events. The committee assesses the interests and needs of members to ground its recommendations for topics/content of professional development events, plans, coordinates, and evaluates all events with the support of NE AHEAD leadership, encourages participation in NE England AHEAD events, and uses evaluation data following events to inform ongoing NE AHEAD activities and future events.
Specific Duties:
- Creating a comprehensive event plan including goals/desired outcomes, cost information, timelines, and themes of specific events. Planned events will use multiple accessible formats, such as web based and in-person forums.
- Developing budgets for particular events and working with NE AHEAD Leadership/Treasurer to ensure costs are reasonable and vendors are paid.
- Coordinating the logistics, agenda, outreach, marketing, technology needs, assistive technology, interpreters, and evaluation for all events.
- Arranging for speakers and if applicable, work with the NE England AHEAD Treasurer to ensure that invited speakers are compensated.
- Conducting post event activities such as thank you notes, resource sharing, budget reconciliation, and analyzing formative assessment data.
The subcommittees will meet this fall to begin planning how to increase membership and how to best reach our members with new information relevant to our work. They will also focus on hosting two webinars to be held later this year and early next year, an informative and innovative two day conference to be held next June and a social event for our members. If you are interested in joining either committee please indicate that on your membership form. One of the co-chairs will be in touch.
