March 2008
- Sign up for the TAA Teleconference 'Royalty Q&A'
- Get $5 off your TAA membership renewal dues
- Update your Member Information with new online Member Update Form
- TAA re-posts results of 1991, 1999 Author-Publisher Relations Surveys
- Call for nominations to TAA Council
- TAA welcomes new members
- TAA members donate funds to provide gift memberships
- TAA thanks Sustaining and Contributing Members
- Center for Inquiry raises concerns over errors in civics textbook
Sign up for the TAA Teleconference 'Royalty Q&A'
TAA will be holding its second members-only teleconference, "Royalty Q&A" on March 20 at 1 p.m. CT.
During this 60-minute open discussion, Paul Rosenzweig, the former president of Royalty Review Service, will answer participants' questions regarding royalties and royalty statements.
Other upcoming TAA Teleconferences include:
- "A Coach's Perspective on Finishing a Dissertation" on Friday, April 4 at 12 noon CT. "Don't Settle for a Publisher's Standard Contract: Terms You Can & Should Negotiate" on April 25 at 1 p.m. CT.
- "Basic Book Indexing" on May 8 at 1 p.m. CT.
Teleconferences are limited to 30 participants, so sign up today!
To learn more about these teleconferences or to sign up, click here.
TAA Teleconferences are free for members. To join, click here.Get $5 off your TAA membership renewal dues
Until December 31, 2008, renewing members can get $5 off their dues when they enter coupon code 5OFFMR when renewing online, or by sending in a special $5 off coupon that will be included in member renewal notices. A coupon will also be included in upcoming issues of "The Academic Author". Members who joined this year can also take advantage of this offer by renewing for another year anytime before December 31, 2008. Renew online
Update your Member Information with new online Member Update Form
Members can update their email, phone, mailing address, and/or university affiliation using a new Member Update Form accessible once they log into the members-only area of the TAA website. The Member Update Form can also accessed by clicking here.TAA re-posts results of 1991, 1999 Author-Publisher Relations Surveys
After a recent discussion on the TAA Listserv regarding royalty rates and the suggestion by one member to conduct a royalty survey, TAA decided to repost a July 1991, and a June 1999 article that announce the results of a TAA Author-Publisher Relations Survey.
View the 1991
article here: Click here
View the 1999 article here: Click here
Call for nominations to TAA Council
Two officer positions and two Council positions will be opening up on the TAA Council July 1, 2008. Any member of TAA is eligible to serve on the TAA Council. Self-nominations are encouraged. The officer positions include Vice President/President-elect, and Treasurer. Officers serve two-year terms. Council members serve three year terms.
TAA Council members are required to attend two meetings per year, one in January in St. Petersburg, Florida, and one the day prior to the association's annual conference (held traditionally in late June or early July). Travel and lodging expenses related to attending these meetings is reimbursed. Officers also attend monthly teleconferences.
To nominate yourself or a colleague for the TAA Council, email your nominations to TEXT@tampabay.rr.com or mail to TAA, P.O. Box 56359, St. Petersburg, FL 33732-6359. Contact TAA if you have any questions: (727) 563-0020 or TEXT@tampabay.rr.com
Nominees must send a 100-150 word bio, and a 100-150 word position statement with their nominations, describing why they would be a good candidate for the TAA Council. Deadline for completed nominations is March 1, 2008. Ballots are mailed to the membership March 15, 2008. The deadline for the receipt of ballots from members is April 15, 2008. Terms begin July 1, 2007.
Duties
and Responsibilities of TAA President (PDF)
Duties and Responsibilities of TAA Vice-President/President-Elect (PDF)
Duties and Responsibilities
of TAA Treasurer (PDF)
Duties and Responsibilities
of TAA Council Members (PDF)
More information: TAA Council Call for Nominations document (PDF)
TAA welcomes new members
Mohan Aggarwal, Ali Ahmady, Ikram Ahmed, Tammy Alexander, George Ashley, Ramazan Asmatulu, Rajiv Bagai,Mehmet Bayram Yildirim, Derek Bowe, Barbara Cady, Audley Chambers, Lucy Cort, Cecily Daly, Brian Driessen, Lynne Edmondson, Ingrid Enniss, Flora Flood, Karen Foster, Edith Fraser, Trevor Fraser, Linda Gardner, Kimberly Glenn, Symmetris Gohanna, LaDonna Hale, Kay Hamilton, Andrea Hawkins, Kyna Hinson, Jerolyn Hughes Golightly, Ramona Hyman, Jody Jones, Michael Jorgenson, Suresh Keshavanarayana, Linda Kliment, Sha Li, Tarsee Li, Arlene Luvalle Johnson, Don Malzahn, Mukesha Mbuguje, Scott Miller, Roland Mueller, Roy Myose, Kamesh Namuduri, Bernard Noble, Onesimus Otieno, Havovi Patel, Darayar Patil, Susan Phelan, Esther Phillips- Embden, Nancy Price, Tiruvadi Ravigururajan, Mahdi Saket Kashani, Rondora Scott, Trisha Self, Geethalakshmi Shivanapura Lakshmikanth, Steven Skinner, Barbara Smith, Bin Tang, Janet Twomey, William Vanderburgh, Jennifer Vinson, Katina Walton, John Watkins, Rehana Whatley, Lawrence Whitman, Rachel Williams, Jim Wolff, Deril Wood, Patricia Young, Xiang Zhao.
TAA members donate funds to provide gift memberships
Donations made to the TAA Foundation by Richard Hull, Frederick Lutgens, Roger Bennitt, and Helen Gordon, will allow TAA to offer 109 gift memberships this year to authors on TAAF's prospective member list.
The donations were part of a mailing made to select TAA members in mid-December, asking them to play "Santa" to the Foundation's prospective members.
TAA thanks Sustaining and Contributing Members
TAA thanks Sustaining Member ($150) Hannah Rubenstein, and Contributing Member ($100) Walter Savitch. The Sustaining and Contributing member categories are voluntary and the additional funds allow TAA to provide more benefits to its members.
Center for Inquiry raises concerns over errors in civics textbook
The Center for Inquiry (CFI), an international think tank promoting science and secularism, released a 25-page report today detailing what it calls "egregious errors" sufficient enough to warrant "immediate correction," in a widely used civics textbook found in many secondary schools around the country, including advanced placement courses.
CFI believes that the textbook American Government: Institutions and Policies, 10th edition, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006) contains inaccurate and misleading statements, in particular in its analysis of global warming and certain constitutional law issues. In response, CFI's legal experts have analyzed the textbook and prepared a critique that sets forth recommended changes.
Derek Araujo, a lawyer and executive director for CFI's New York office, spearheaded the textbook review project. Araujo stated that he was "surprised and dismayed that a textbook used in advanced placement courses would contain clearly erroneous statements about significant issues, such as global warming and school prayer." Araujo recruited leading scientists, including Stuart D. Jordan from NASA, to provide their assessment of the book's treatment of global warming.
CFI's critique focuses on six areas: the science of global warming; the legality of school prayer; the significance of the Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas; the alleged influence of the religious concept of "original sin" on the structure of the Constitution; the meaning of the Establishment Clause; and the significance of the Supreme Court's decision not to hear a case (what lawyers refer to as the denial of a writ of certiorari).
Ronald A. Lindsay, CFI's general counsel, characterized the errors as "significant and inexcusable. For a civics textbook to state—as this book does—that the Supreme Court will not allow students to pray in schools betrays either a serious misunderstanding of the law or a willingness to have the textbook serve as a propaganda vehicle for the Religious Right."
CFI maintains that it is very important for civics students to obtain accurate information about our Constitution, our legal system and public policy issues, and that instructional material should be objective and free of ideological bias.
The textbook critique was researched and written by Araujo, Lindsay, and Jordan. A downloadable PDF copy of the full report is available online: Click here
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