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As Chair of the Affiliated Organizations Council to the 1999 AECT Assembly,
I represented the National and International Affiliates.  I am concerned,
we as a group are being lost in the restructuring.  I read that the Board
recognized the need for relations with the Regional Coordinators and the
State Affiliates, but I read nothing about the National and International
Affiliates being represented.  We made a proposal at the final Assembly for
representation on the Board, but have heard nothing.  Given we represent a
lot of groups involved in Instructional Technology, I would assume AECT
would be interested in retaining our Affiliation with the hopes of getting
more of our members as AECT members (currently 25% of our members need to
be to be AECT members to be an Affiliate).  So far I have not been
contacted.  My newsletter editor for the Community College Association for
Instruction and Technology (CCAIT) needed to get our April newsletter out.
Unfortunately, I had to report vague information to our 250+ members.  If
we hope to keep the National and International Affiliates to AECT, I
believe we need better communication and representation.