I think, Julia is right, and longer time planning gives continuity and is
more realistic on the whole.
It might also allow to get some other people involved.
Best Elisabeth
At 14:21 26.05.2004, you wrote:
>Espen, I think you should contact Wendell, since you'd be the one working
>with him on this.
>
>I wonder whether it would be a good thing to start off with one or two
>areas that one could really make progress in, rather than trying to tackle
>the whole long list. I think the area of greatest need is the existing
>activities of the two organizations which would be performed much better
>if approached jointly and at the COHCO level: jobs/mentoring and the Busa
>award. Perhaps this could be the first priority for this year. One might
>also then look at the rest of the list and come up with a staged approach:
>pick another small set of related activities that could reasonably be
>addressed next year, and perhaps a few for the year after that, and come
>up with a plan for addressing them. I suspect that being able to present a
>two or three-year plan for developing COHCO activities would be a great
>way to give concreteness to the whole idea in the membership's eyes.
>
>best wishes, Julia
>
>>
>>>> B. Activities and initiatives (Espen)
>>>> Key tasks:
>>>> - revision of EO paper in the light of discussion.
>>>> Query: add an ACH person to liaise with EO?
>>>
>>> Would Wendell be a good choice for this? he just rotated off the ACH
>>> exec but he's imbued with ACHness and might have some free cycles.
>>
>>I would like to go through the Activities and initiatives section again
>>so that I (and we) will know when the conference comes whether there is
>>anything there which should be discussed or presented or both. Has
>>Wendell been contacted by qanyone? Are there anybody else whi might have
>>some time to take a look through the paper from last year and give some
>>opinions?
>>
>>Espen
PD Dr. Elisabeth Burr
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Frankoromanistik und Italoromanistik
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