Rocky Mountain Regional Welcome Letter - Fall 2011
Dear Psi Chi Chapter Advisor,
Welcome to the new academic year! I hope your semester has started well. I have a great deal of news to share with you. I am honored to be able to serve as your Rocky Mountain Regional Vice-President for the next 2 years. I want to thank Eric Landrum (Boise State University), our outgoing Regional VP for all his kind assistance—he is going to be a tough act to follow!I hope to keep up the lines of communication with you that Eric started.
I would also like to acknowledge and thank Eric’s steering committee members, Leslie Cramblet Alvarez (Adams State College) and Steve Barney (Southern Utah University), who helped bring some excellent programming to our Rocky Mountain regional meeting last spring. I am pleased to tell you Leslie has agreed to continue her work on the steering committee. I am also very pleased to let you know about our new steering committee members. Gideon Caplovitz (University of Nevada-Reno) will be serving as our other faculty steering committee member, in addition to his duties helping manage the April 2012 RMPA meeting. Kris Trimble (Colorado Mesa University) is our student steering committee member and is looking forward to networking with students in your chapters.
There are some exciting changes to Psi Chi International I would like to tell you about. The remainder of this email contains 4 invitations to you, which I hope you will take the time to consider.
INVITATIONS
1. Join the Rocky Mountain Psi Chi Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/149411341813850/. One of my goals is to improve the ability of chapters in our region (advisors and students) to network and communicate with each other, and with me! Please consider signing up for Facebook (very easy to do) and “Asking to Join the Group.” I will be posting information regularly to the Facebook page and this will be an easy tool for you to communicate with me and with each other. Our first activity on the Facebook page will be to share feedback about possible student sessions at RMPA next spring.I would love to hear what you and your students think about possible sessions. Also please see the note on the Facebook page about avoiding spam from Facebook on your work email. Please ask your chapter officers and members to sign up also!
2. Email me with any questions that you may have at sbecker@coloradomesa.edu. Being a chapter advisor comes with a number of unique challenges. I would be happy to hear from you and help you with any questions that come up. If I don’t know the answer, I will find out or connect you to someone who can help. Also, check out ongoing improvements to the Psi Chi website (psichi.org). The Central Office will be adding staff and is working hard to make the website more user-friendly. We should be rolling out new regional web pages very soon.
3. Get involved in Psi Chi programming at RMPA. Many hands make light work and some of the most fun I have had at RMPA has been in collaborative sessions with colleagues from other institutions…please join in the fun!
4. Join us for the advisor appreciation luncheon at RMPA 2012 in Reno. As a way of saying ‘thank you’ to the chapter advisors in the Rocky Mountain region, the Psi Chi Central Office annually hosts an advisor luncheon at RMPA. We also invite the Psi Chi Distinguished Lecturer to join us at this luncheon. The 2012 Distinguished Lecturer is Dr. Richard Bootzin from University of Arizona. This will be an RSVP/invitation-only event, so I hope you’ll be able to join us in Reno.
I hope that you will accept all 4 invitations! The best way to contact me is via email (you’ll get the quickest response that way too) at sbecker@coloradomesa.edu. You can contact Leslie at lcramblet@adams.edu and Gideon at gcaplovitz@unr.edu . Please email me if you have any questions, concerns, or comments. I look forward to working with you over the next 2 years!
Take care,
Susan Becker,Psi Chi Rocky Mountain Region VP
Colorado Mesa University (formerly Mesa State College)
P.S. That exciting information about Psi Chi I talked about? You’ll have to check out our Facebook page to learn more!