{"id":726,"date":"2011-07-07T07:07:04","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T07:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.malcs.org\/archive-2017\/?p=726"},"modified":"2011-07-07T07:11:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T07:11:36","slug":"news-from-the-executive-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2011\/07\/07\/news-from-the-executive-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"News from the Executive Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear MALCistas,<\/p>\n<p>In the coming weeks before our 2011 Institute, our website will feature a new section \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"https:\/\/www.malcs.org\/archive-2017\/malcs-leadership-2010-11-new\/ \">News from the Exec<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>The MALCS Special Gathering launched an assessment of our organization that would address how we, as a national body, bridge all aspects of our work. The Special Gathering called for exploring new and existing strategies of bridging letras y cambio social.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2010, the Executive Committee has addressed bylaws, 501c3 status, building membership, and addressing critical infrastructural issues before us as a national organization. And other issues still are before us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.malcs.org\/archive-2017\/malcs-leadership-2010-11-new\/ \">This section<\/a> begins a series of discussions about MALCS and what we want it to become. It will feature various essays, hopefully short essays, to facilitate ideas for an assessment of our organization. The tracts will take up the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Report back on Special Gathering<\/li>\n<li>Vision Statement<\/li>\n<li>Proposed Bylaws Changes, Summary of the changes and the procedure for Bylaws voting\/ timeline<\/li>\n<li>Proposal for changing the meeting structure to every other year<\/li>\n<li>Update on MALCS as a financial entity with a fiscal agent, the Chicana\/Latina Foundation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Key to our assessment is guaranteeing the membership\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s input\u00e2\u20ac\u201drecommendations to the Report Back and Vision Statement, discussion of the Bylaws revisions, etc. Therefore, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"https:\/\/www.malcs.org\/archive-2017\/malcs-leadership-2010-11-new\/ \">News from the Exec<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d link will provide a viable avenue for discussion\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthis includes a blog space for-members-only, as well as utilizing survey forms so that members may respond more promptly and efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>At this launching, the Executive Committee extends our gratitude to The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzald\u00c3\u00baa (SSGA) that graciously provided their final plenary session to MALCS in order to begin our assessment.<\/p>\n<p>Siempre,<br \/>\nKeta Miranda, Chair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear MALCistas, In the coming weeks before our 2011 Institute, our website will feature a new section \u00e2\u20ac\u0153News from the Exec\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The MALCS Special Gathering launched an assessment of our organization that would address how we, as a national body, bridge all aspects of our work. The Special Gathering called for exploring new and existing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-announcements","7":"category-general-news","8":"entry","9":"override"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":730,"url":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2011\/07\/08\/malcs-special-gathering-a-report-back\/","url_meta":{"origin":726,"position":0},"title":"MALCS Special Gathering: A Report Back","author":"la Webjefa","date":"July 8, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"We've just posted to the main website the second installment of \"News From the Exec\" (under Leadership). \u00c2\u00a0 The first few paragraphs are below, or click on the title to read the full report: A MALCS Special Gathering: A Report from the Executive Committee\" Introduction and Overview In the April\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Announcements&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Announcements","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/category\/announcements\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":495,"url":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2010\/10\/01\/malcs-gathering-nov-6-7-2010-san-antonio\/","url_meta":{"origin":726,"position":1},"title":"MALCS Gathering Nov. 6-7, 2010 San Antonio","author":"la Webjefa","date":"October 1, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"MALCS Gathering \"Doing Work that Matters\": Bridging Letras y Cambio Social November 6th and 7th, 2010 San Antonio, Tejas Dear MALCista, The MALCS Gathering launches an assessment of our organization as a national body to bridge all aspects of our organization and especially as we work to perpetually nurture and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Announcements&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Announcements","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/category\/announcements\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":736,"url":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2011\/07\/18\/news-from-the-exec-revisioning-malcs\/","url_meta":{"origin":726,"position":2},"title":"News from the Exec: ReVisioning MALCS","author":"la Webjefa","date":"July 18, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Our Mission MALCS is an organization that supports Chicanas, Latinas, Native American and Indigenous women in higher education and community leadership. 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