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MALCS Executive & Coordinating Committees: Officer Elections at the 2015 Summer Institute in Albuquerque, NM

At this year’s Summer Institute, we will elect officers for four positions on the organization’s Executive Committee: chairperson elect, treasurer, recording secretary, membership coordinator. We will also elect three at-large representatives for the Coordinating Committee. With the exception of the Chairperson-elect, who serves a three-year term (Chairperson-elect, Chair, Ex-Officio), all elected officers serve two-year terms.

We invite all members to participate in the elections this year and to consider running for office. MALCS needs your energy, talent, and skills! Given the considerable leadership experience among our membership, we hope that elections will showcase this wealth.

Currently, our Nominations Committee is composing a slate of candidates for the election. Members may also self-nominate. Attached, please find descriptions for each of the positions up for election.

If you have any questions, you may contact any member of the Nominations Committee: Lupe Gallegos Diaz, Rita Urquijo-Ruiz, and Jessica Lopez Lyman at gro.sclamobfsctd-20adcb@snoitanimon/archive-2017

If you want to be a candidate for one of these positions, please submit a statement of interest to the Nominations Committee at gro.sclamobfsctd-591bf0@snoitanimon/archive-2017 by Monday, July 20, 2015. The statement should be a one-paragraph introduction (no more than 250 words) that articulates your interest in and qualifications for serving MALCS in the position you would like to represent.

The ideal candidates should:

1) have been a member of MALCS the preceding year (2014) or other previous years;

2) have served previously in a leadership position with a community and/or an academic organization;

3) uphold Chican@ feminist leadership praxis and;

4) “pledge to acknowledge, value and employ feminist principles and frameworks in our organizational practices” (article II section 2 of the MALCS bylaws: https://www.malcs.org/archive-2017/malcs-bylaws-2014/)

Candidate statements will be distributed to members in advance of the Business Meeting at the 2015 Summer Institute in Albuquerque, NM.

 

 

MALCS Executive and Coordinating Committees:

Position Descriptions  

Chairperson-elect

Election to this position means a three-year commitment on the MALCS Executive Committee–as chair-elect, chair, and ex-officio. The Chairperson-elect shall

  • support the chair in the implementation of the policies and procedures of the organization;
  • assume the duties of the Chairperson, in the absence of the Chairperson;
  • in consultation with the webjefa and communications team, be responsible for making recommendations to the Executive Committee on editorial policy, publishing and functionality of the MALCS’ digital presence and for working with webjefa and communications team to assure implementation of said decisions;
  • be responsible for promoting MALCS’ digital publications and recruiting writers for those publications;
  • call a meeting of the Executive Committee for the purpose of determining whether the Chairperson is unwilling or unable to perform the duties of the Chair; such a meeting must be called in writing with no less than five (5) days notice, and only when the Chair-Elect has a good cause to believe that the Chairperson is unable or unwilling to perform the duties of the Chair;
  • assume the duties of Chairperson if so directed by the Executive Committee;
  • assume the office of Chairperson when the Chairperson’s term expires.

 

Treasurer

The Treasurer shall

  • in collaboration with the Administrative Coordinator, regularly review, report, and reconcile financial documents and statements for the organization;
  • in consultation with the Administrative Coordinator, advise and consult with the Executive Committee regarding budgetary constraints, financial policy, audits, development strategies and activities;
  • make recommendations on all routine and non-routine financial matters;
  • review any items or requests with financial implications that are made to the National Office, Executive Committee and/or Coordinating Committee;
  • chair the Funds Development Committee;
  • in the absence of Chair, Chair-Elect, the Ex-Officio, the treasurer will facilitate meetings.

 

Recording Secretary

The Recording Secretary shall

  • keep the minutes of all regular and special meetings of the Executive Committee, Coordinating Committee, and national business meeting;
  • distribute minutes to the Executive Committee and the membership within (30) days after adjournment of each meeting;
  • in collaboration with the Chair, prepare the agenda for all meetings;
  • compile, organize, and deliver all documents to Administrative Coordinator and to the MALCS archives at UCLA;
  • collect and keep contact information on chapters, caucuses, officers and awards.

 

Membership Coordinator

The Membership Coordinator shall

  • conduct a yearly membership drive before the Summer Institute;
  • in collaboration the Communications Committee and Webjefa, be responsible for making recommendations to the Executive Committee on the uses and functionality of the listservs and email lists and other social media;
  • be responsible for maintaining moderation of public and member listservs;
  • work in consultation with webjefa to create and maintain the content of the MALCS website’s membership section;
  • serve as a liaison between MALCS Executive Committee and the Historian;
  • serve as a liaison between MALCS Executive Committee and chapters including soliciting reports and chapter activities for publication on MALCS website.

 

At-large Representatives

Representatives shall

  • be elected at the Summer Institute and serve two-year terms with staggered start dates and end dates to ensure office continuity;
  • attend the Summer Institute;
  • attend meetings of the Coordinating Committee scheduled at the Summer Institute;
  • recommend and organize workshops, panels, and themes for future institutes;
  • identify pertinent topics in relation to their special interest and regions;
  • prepare, report, and submit reports to Secretary;
  • submit announcements and items of interests from their region for publication on the MALCS website or other digital venues;
  • elected at-large representatives will train incoming at-large representatives in duties;
  • keep the chair and recording secretary informed of current contact information.

2015 Summer Institute Update

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Preparations continue for the 2015 MALCS Summer Institute, to be held at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.We are very excited about this year’s Institute and it’s theme of “Honoring Our Intersectionality, Honoring Our Migrations Roots/Routes.”

The UNM Summer Institute artist is Gabriela Hernández who has created this beautiful poster. Downloadable posters for distribution are available here.

Here are some important updates:

  • If you submitted a proposal for the 2015 SI, decisions will be completed before the end of the month and you will be advised via email.
  • The UNM Summer Institute website will be coming soon with information on off-and on-campus housing, as well as online registration.
  • Registration fees for the 2015 Summer Institute have been set at:
      • members $125
      • non-members $175
      • students $50
      • community $25/day

CFP: 2015 MALCS Summer Institute at UNM

In honor of the intersectionality of our lives and our whole selves, the 2015 MALCS Summer Institute at the University of New Mexico invites proposals that showcase the work we as activists, artists, community members and scholars create. In this way, we honor the intersectionalities of all parts of our research, movement building work, community organizing and varied educational experiences.

 

Please send a 250-word abstract to the following e-mail address: moc.liamgobfsctd-51d3a9@mnu5102sclam

In addition, please let us know if you will need any audio/visual equipment.

Deadline: April 19, 2015

More information here

CFP: 2015 MALCS Summer Institute Writing Workshop

Chicana/Latina Studies: The Journal of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social invites your participation at its MALCS Summer Institute Writing Workshop at the University of New Mexico, July 29 to August 1, 2015. Two sessions focusing on academic articles will take place on Wednesday, July 29, and Friday, July 31, 2015.

Those interested in participating must submit electronic copies of a letter of application and a final draft of a manuscript by June 19, 2015 at 5:00 pm to ude.astuobfsctd-5dd983@etergeNzedneM.eisoJ. This two-day workshop has space for no more than ten participants who are current paid members of MALCS and who must register for the Summer Institute.

More information about the MALCS Summer Institute Writing Workshop can be found at https://www.malcs.org/archive-2017/summer-institute/summer-institute-writing-workshop/

SAD NEWS: Camille Guérin-Gonzales

Dear MALCS:

With much sadness, I write of the passing last night of historian Camille Guérin-Gonzales, in Madison, Wisconsin.

As many of us remember, Camille helped found MALCS, was active during a stint spent at UC Davis and later, while on the faculties of UCLA (founding member of what is now the Dept. of Chicana/o Studies there), Colorado/Boulder, and Madison. She provided insights at our many gatherings about class, labor, especially women’s labor, and wrote passionately about these subjects in comparative perspective (as noted in her bio below).

After facing bravely and courageously a life-threatening illness, she and her partner, Susan Johnson, also of UW-Madison, lived married life fully and joyfully. Please remember Susan, their three adult surviving children, many grandchildren, and one great grandchild that Camille was able to meet on her last trip to California, in your blessings, prayers, and ceremonies. Please bring your memories or photos of Camille to MALCS/Albuquerque in late July and we can celebrate her life there, too.

Deena J. González

 

     Camille Guérin-GonzalesCamille Guerin-Gonzales

     Biography (September 2014)

 

 

 

Camille Guérin-Gonzales is Professor Emerita of History at UW-Madison. She joined the faculty of the Chicana/o Studies Program in 2001, and became director of the program in 2003. During her years as director, the Chicana/o Studies Program became the Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program and attracted 15 new faculty affiliates. As a result of this redesign and growth, over the next half-decade, the average number of students pursuing a Certificate in Chican@ and Latin@ Studies increased by more than 250 percent, from about 3 each year to about 16 each year. In addition to her work with the Program, she also served as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Chair of UW’s Department of History.

Professor Guérin-Gonzales received her Ph.D. in History from the University of California, Riverside, in 1985. Before arriving in Madison, she taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder, at Oberlin College, and at the University of California, Los Angeles. At the University of Colorado, she served as Faculty Advisor to El Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán (MEChA), and at Oberlin she was Faculty Advisor to La Union de Estudiantes Latinos. At UCLA, she was among the six founding faculty of the new César Chávez Center for Interdisciplinary Chicana & Chicano Studies (now a full-fledged department) established in 1996. She also served as Chair of that unit.

Professor Guérin-Gonzales has centered her research, teaching, and service on labor and working-class history and on the history of race and nationalisms. She is the author of Mexican Workers and American Dreams: Immigration, Repatriation, and California Farm Labor, 1900-1939, and the coeditor of The Politics of Immigrant Workers: Essays on Labor Activism and Migration in the World Economy. In recent years, her scholarship has focused on the comparative history of coal mining communities in Appalachia, South Wales, and the U.S. Southwest. For that work, she received grants and fellowships from the Institute for Research in the Humanities at UW, from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and from the Ford Foundation. Before her retirement, she taught courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level on U.S. labor and working-class history, on social movements, on comparative race and nationalisms, on Chicana/o and Latina/o history, on immigration history, and on the history of the U.S. Southwest. She has spoken to community audiences gathered by humanities councils, labor unions, student organizations, and Latina/o advocacy groups. In addition to her many professional affiliations, she is a founding member of Mujeres Activas en Letras y Cambio Social (MALCS), and of the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA).

Beyond all of this, Professor Guérin-Gonzales is the mother of three adult children, the grandmother of seven, the great-grandmother of one, and the spouse of Professor Susan Johnson, who is also a faculty affiliate of the Chican@ and Latin@ Studies Program. Professor Guérin- Gonzales is a manita from northern New Mexico, and her life’s work has been dedicated to an understanding of difference and power in all their complexity, and to the pursuit of social justice that flows out of that understanding.

POSITION OPENING: Director of the School of Transborder Studies – ASU

Director of the School of Transborder Studies (Job #10917)

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Arizona State University

Arizona State University invites applications for the position of Director of the School of Transborder Studies (STS) with a concurrent appointment as tenured Professor. Appointment will be located on the Tempe campus with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2015. Salary and start-up will be competitive and commensurate with qualifications.

STS is the home to a dynamic and interdisciplinary faculty focused on the theoretical and empirical examination of transborder processes and communities. STS approaches transborder studies in a way that is both grounded in and inspired by the geographical specificity of the U.S.-Mexico border as well as the broad theoretical applications of border studies including health and community development, immigration and economy, cultural expression and adaptation, gender and sexuality studies, language and learning, questions of identity and representation of transborder Latina/o subjects. This approach is unique among U.S. universities and an emerging field of study globally. The location of STS in the Phoenix metropolitan area, a Latino hub and epicenter of rapid changes in the social and demographic landscape of the United States, makes this unit an ideal place to study these issues.

 STS offers an undergraduate degree in Transborder Chicana/o and Latino/a Studies with three interdisciplinary concentrations: media and expressive culture, transborder community development and health, and U.S. and Mexican regional immigration policy and economy. A graduate program is in development. A recently launched presidential initiative, the Program for Transborder Communities (PTC), advances cutting-edge research on the changing needs and growing political, economic, and cultural influence of Latina/os and other communities in the U.S.-Mexico border. Consistent with the ASU New American University vision of social embeddedness and transformation, STS maintains a strong program of collaboration with Latino communities in Arizona. STS also sustains a strong research and exchange program with Mexican academic institutions on the border and beyond.

The director will lead STS in shaping, consolidating, and expanding its different research, instructional, service, and community endeavors. As an intellectual leader, the director must be strongly committed to supporting the multidisciplinary, scholarly work that is central to the mission of STS; advancing the school’s standing as a center of knowledge production on transborder studies both nationally and internationally; and faculty governance. She or he also will be responsible for overseeing budgets, curriculum development, research advancement programs and funding, recruitment and retention, planning and implementation of degree programs, and community engagement actions.

Required qualifications include:

·       Ph.D. (or equivalent) in the social sciences or the humanities

·       Extensive scholarship and demonstrated leadership in his or her field with a focus on U.S. Latina/os and/or transborder studies appropriate to the rank of full Professor

·       A record of excellence in teaching, service, and administrative experience in an academic setting

Desired qualifications include:

·       A record of externally funded research

·       Experience with program development in curriculum and graduate education

·       Involvement with community-based research initiatives

·       Spanish language proficiency.

To apply, please submit as a single pdf to ude.usaobfsctd-474c20@hcraeSrotceriDSTS: a cover letter addressing qualifications, a vision statement for STS, a curriculum vita, and the names and contact information for three references. All application materials will be held in confidence. This is an online, paperless search; only electronic applications will be accepted. Consideration of completed applications will begin on November 15, 2014. Complete applications will be considered on a weekly basis as necessary until the search is closed. A background check is required for employment.

Informal inquiries and nominations may be directed to Linda Lederman, Chair of the Search Committee, at ude.usaobfsctd-4beb16@namredel.adnil.

Arizona State University is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor and an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will be considered without regard to race, color, sex, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by law. https://www.asu.edu/aad/manuals/acd/acd401.html  https://www.asu.edu/titleIX/