First Membership Meeting to be Held at Upcoming ACCA Conference

The first ACCSDEAA membership meeting will be held at the 2022 ACCA Conference in Birmingham, AL. If you're interested in attending the meeting, it will be held from 1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. on Sunday, November 20, 2022, in the Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Center East Meeting Area, Room J. If you are not attending the conference, you may also attend this meeting virtually via Zoom. Everyone interested in attending either meeting should complete the membership survey (the link to the survey can be found below). If you indicate that you would like to attend the Zoom meeting, you will receive the Zoom information on Sunday morning at the email that you provide in the survey. If you have questions about the association, you can email our president Ann Strickland at Ann.Strickland@coastalalabama.edu. We hope to see you at ACCA!

Link to Membership Survey: https://forms.office.com/r/hT8w6589AF.

Information regarding the upcoming ACCA Conference and the conference program, CLICK HERE.

New ACCS-Sanctioned Association for Distance Education Administrators

On April 15, 2022, Chancellor Jimmy Baker approved the conversion of the Alabama Consortium for Technology and Learning to an ACCS-sanctioned professional association. The newly established association is the ACCS Distance Education Administrator’s Association. Chancellor Baker stated that an official ACCS professional association dedicated to distance education administrators is now warranted based on the continued growth in online learning at ACCS institutions and on the increased importance of distance education to ACCS students. In addition, the transition to a single ERP system (Banner) and the move toward greater consistency in technology that integrates with Banner (including technology used to facilitate distance learning) makes collaboration between institutions and the sharing of best practices more important than ever. For more information on the creation of the ACCSDEAA, click here to read Chancellor Baker's memo.