Hello MAEOP Members!

Thank you all for a great Annual Conference on the coast! The USM Gulf Park campus was beautiful as always and they welcomed us with open arms. We had great attendance, awesome speakers and a lot of fun and food along with our networking and learning.

I hope you have all had a wonderful summer and had a chance to get some time to relax and recharge yourself. We are getting into the swing of the Fall semester, and the pace has really picked up. I’m looking forward to a great year with MAEOP! We have some new blood on the board this year from younger generations, and that’s awesome! I would also like to get more involvement in our committees from our younger members and increase leadership in the association. If you are interested in joining a committee, please let me know. We also need to continue to multiply our membership with more people from our affiliates and from new schools. Hopefully, we will have one new affiliate to our association this year, right William Carey University? 😊

We are working on our Fall Professional Development Seminar and hope to have it at Delta State University around October 16th , so mark your calendars now. Kimberly’s working on all details so we should have more information soon. If you would like to be on a committee to help with the PDS, please contact Kimberly at kwoods@rustcollege.edu.

I’m looking forward to an awesome year with MAEOP! I know together we will grow as we encourage each other to develop future leaders in our careers and our association. Encourage someone every chance you get and believe in yourself!

Sincerely,

Cindy Walker

Cindy Walker, CEOE

President 2026-2027

“Learn, Achieve, Believe