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An update from  CHANGE:
CHANGE made its intial cross-cluster SIG proposal in Houston. I, as the
CHANGE President,  received word that it did not make it to the board
meeting on Sunday.   I thought those interested might like to see the
intial proposal submitted by CHANGE, I have attached it to this email.
After the conference, I was talking with Kyle about status of the CHANGE
proposal when he proposed the idea of maintaining a division in response to
this point:
=85 A cross-cluster SIG may be formed which will have the same
responsibilities and recognition as a cluster (e.g., Program Planning
responsibilities and Board representation).
I wondered at what point the critical mass would be large enough to warrent
program planning responsibilities and Board representation (as other
divisions and interest groups have received). Kyle suggested that perhaps
the division structure would be a more logical way to approach the issue,
thus his comments.

CHANGE continues to maintain a very active presence in AECT. Jim Ellsworth
developed a series of promotional materials for the division that were very
well received in Houston. This summer some of our members will be
faciliating the AECT change discussions at Summer Leadership. The CHANGE
Board believes that the strength in our membership shows that there is a
strong interest in this arena. We look forward to working with the Board in
defining the position of the CHANGE membership in AECT. I, personally, hope
that they will take a more collaboratory approach to the process than has
been taken in the past.
Mary Herring
CHANGE President


>While this is not a formal CHANGE response, as the current Communications
>Officer I feel obligated to address a couple of understandable misconceptio=
ns
>generated by the preceding discussion.
>
>First, CHANGE did NOT "resist change" or ask not to be reorganized accordin=
g
>to the new structure.  Our proposal was to form a "cross-cluster SIG" where
>we could retain our networks with other professionals who (contrary to Geor=
ge
>Wilson's assumption) are primarily facilitators of organizational/systemic
>change in our professional lives, regardless of which of the new Division's
>contexts we happen to be consulting in at a particular point of time.  I
>personally spent a great deal of time in Houston generating and filling
>signup sheets with names of CHANGE members interested in leading and
>belonging to SIGS within each of the new Divisions, so that we could best
>CONTRIBUTE TO--not resist--the evolution the AECT Board has begun.
>
>Second, I think it is understandable that CHANGE is being discussed a lot
>here--both by the Board and by the membership in this forum--because what
>AECT is attempting IS serious, radical change.  It SHOULD BE--needs to
>be--systemic in nature if AECT is to survive (that is, it needs to consider
>the interrelationships between the constituencies AECT serves, their needs
>and objectives, and their respective strengths--then weave them together in=
to
>a functioning, "living" SYSTEM capable of adapting to meet the changing
>demands of our profession).  HOWEVER, I think most of us--inside and outsid=
e
>CHANGE--would agree that this has, in many cases, NOT been an accurate
>description of what has happened.  Therefore, it makes some sense for those
>of us whose careers involve facilitating such processes--and who have
>established records of success helping organizations through them--be
>involved in some way in helping our own Association move into the future (o=
r
>at least the present!)
>
>We are all on the same team here.  Nobody is trying to play by different
>rules.  We will all contribute in our own ways--we don't need a whole strin=
g
>of shortstops--but we must all pull together here!  Let's help Kyle and the
>Board make it happen.
>
>--Jim Ellsworth
>Communications Officer,
>CHANGE


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