Betty Azar TAAF receives $15,000 gift TAA member Betty Azar has made a $15,000 unrestricted gift to the TAA Foundation. Azar, the author of the bestselling Azar Grammar Series, published by Pearson Longman, said she hoped her gift would encourage other textbook authors of perennial bestsellers to support the Foundation... click for more

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TAAF creates advisory board for minority author survey project:

Six TAA members have agreed to serve on a TAAF Advisory Committee for the Foundation's minority textbook author survey project. Dr. La Verne Gyant, Director of the Center for Black Studies at Northern Illinois University; Don Pepion, Director of American Indian Programs and Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at New Mexico State University; Sorin C. Popescu, an assistant professor in the Department of Forest Science at Texas A&M University; Mattie L. Rhodes, Clinical Associate Professor in the School Of Nursing at the State University of New York at Buffalo; Rosangel Cruz, Biopsychology, State University of New York at Buffalo; and Irina Weisblatt, a Community College Business Adjunct Instructor at Grossmont College, Southwestern College and Mesa College, will be available to discuss with TAAF ways to encourage minorities to write textbooks.

Sorin C. Popescu	Dr. La Verne Gyant	Don Pepion	Mattie L. Rhodes
Rosángel Cruz	Irina Weisblatt	Richard Hull

Resumes/CVs of Board Members (click to download)

Sorin C. Popescu (pdf)
Dr. La Verne Gyant (Word doc)
Don Pepion (Word doc)
Mattie L. Rhodes (pdf)
Rosángel Cruz (Word doc - please contact TAAF if interested in viewing)
Irina Weisblatt (Word doc)
Richard Hull (Word doc)