communication department

Volume XX Number 1

January At-a-Glance

Mailings from the STC Office

• Speaker registration information for STC’s 54th Annual Conference will be e-mailed in mid-January.
• Remind members to look for STC’s 54th Annual Conference Preliminary Program, which will be mailed in February. The program will contain information on all education sessions—pre-conference workshops, certificate sessions, Institutes, and technical sessions—as well as information on the EXPO, keynote speakers, lodging, and optional events.

Chapter Leaders’ Monthly Reminders

January

• STC membership renewals for 2007 were due on January 1, 2007. Please remind your community membership to pay dues by February 28, 2007, in order to be eligible to vote in the STC election.
• If your chapter is participating in the newsletter competition and has already sent in the completed entry form and the first issue (due October 15, 2006), subsequent issues are due January 10, 2007.
• The deadline for your chapter to send entries to the international technical publications, technical art, and online communication competitions is January 16, 2007.
• The STC Board of Directors will meet February 2–3, 2007 in Arlington, Virginia.
• Students must submit completed applications for STC scholarships offered in the 2006–2007 academic year by February 15, 2007.
• Applicants must submit completed applications for the Marian Norby scholarship by February 15, 2007.
• The deadline for your chapter to send entries to STC’s public relations competition is March 5, 2007.
• The deadline for your chapter to send entries to STC’s international student technical communication competition is March 15, 2007.
• Activate your nominating committee. Elections should be held in time for the new officers to attend Leadership Day on May 13, 2007, immediately preceding STC’s 54th Annual Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• The annual STC election will take place in March and April 2007. Ballots will be mailed in mid-March.

Membership at a Glance

As of January 2, 2007:

Total members: 15,978
Members residing in the U.S.: 13,517
Members residing in Canada: 1,455
Members residing elsewhere: 1,006
Total communities*: 154