RMMLA - Special Topic Sessions

Special Topic Sessions

How to Propose a Special Topic Session

Special Topic Sessions (STS), unlike Permanent Sessions, must be approved each year.
We appreciate your following these STS guidelines and procedures:

Proposals for STS must be received at the RMMLA Secretariat by November 1 (postmark date; email OK) to be listed in the print and online Call for Papers.
NEW: Persons requesting either type of STS (see below) must be current in their RMMLA dues for the convention year when making the request.
Presenters in regular and STS sessions must be current in dues by April 1 of the convention year.
NEW: All alternate chairs must be current in dues by April 1 of the convention year to be listed in the program and to retain claim to chair the session the following year.
STS chairs may read a paper in their own session, although this is not encouraged. No one, however, may read more than one paper at the convention.
No session may have more than two presenters from the same institution, unless the focus of the session is the institution itself and/or if it is organized by the local host institution, and at the discretion of the Executive Director.
STS involving undergraduate students have a separate review and are limited to one per year.
If an STS is held three consecutive years, organizers may address a written request for permanent status to the Executive Board, signed by twenty RMMLA members.

There are two ways to propose an STS for the RMMLA convention.

RMMLA members may send an STS title and explanatory subtitle to RMMLA by November 1 (postmark date; email OK). The RMMLA Executive Board selects the STS to include in the print and online Call for Papers on a topic-appropriate / space available basis. Any STS that are approved after November 1 are posted only to the online CFP, so members are encouraged to check the WWW version from time to time.

RMMLA members may recruit presenters and send the STS title and explanatory subtitle PLUS the names, paper titles and short abstracts of the presenters, to RMMLA by March 1 (postmark date; email OK). The RMMLA Executive Board selects the STS to include in the print and online Call for Papers on a topic-appropriate / space available basis.

Presenters in ALL sessions, regular and special topic, must be current in RMMLA dues by April 1.

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