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Annual Meeting
Regional Meetings
Managers Meetings
Week-in-Residence Program
AAUP Mentoring Program
Professional Development Workshops
Annual
Meeting
Offering a rich combination of educational sessions, networking
opportunities, and social and intellectual exchange, the AAUP Annual Meeting
gets consistently high marks as one of the association's most popular
programs. The conference, held every June, brings together staff of member
presses and other publishing professionals to share expertise and new
ideas, to meet with vendors, and to discuss trends in scholarly publishing.
Session topics are designed to interest staff in all areas and levels
of publishing. Panels are developed and organized by the Annual Meeting
Program Committee. Workshops on specific topics generally precede the
meeting.
2008 Annual Meeting
Le Centre Sheraton
June 26-29, 2008
Montréal, QC, Canada
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Regional Meetings
AAUP's regional meetings provide an opportunity for press staff
who might not be able to attend the annual meeting to meet and share information.
These meetings are made possible by the hard work of host presses and
meeting program committees. Meetings are held annually or biennially in
the Midwestern, Western, and Southern regions of the country.
2009 Southern University Presses
Host and Organizer: University of Georgia Press
February 18-20, 2009
Athens, Georgia
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Managers Meetings
Colleagues who work in the same professional areas (financial
officers, production managers, journals managers, etc.) often meet to
learn more about topics specific to their fields. Like the regional meetings,
managers meetings are generally organized and hosted by staff at member
presses.
Upcoming Managers Meetings
2008 Financial Managers' Meeting
March 6-8, 2008
Carolina Inn
Chapel Hill, NC
2008 Production Managers' Meeting
May 7-10. 2008
Chicago, IL
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Week-in-Residence Program
Funded by the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation, the Week-in-Residence program is designed to give middle- and upper-level staff at AAUP member presses the opportunity to refine or learn new skills from colleagues who are expert in a particular area. Offering an intensive, hands-on program of up to one week (although shorter visits will be allowed), the program seeks to foster a professional exchange that will contribute intellectual stimulation and problem-solving ideas to both the host and the home press. Any person who has a full-time appointment at an AAUP member press and at least two years of university press experience may apply.
Transportation and room/board for the participants in the 2008 Week-in-Residence Program will be funded by AAUP. Each participant’s home press is expected to provide salaried time off for the staff member. The host press should incur no direct costs, and will receive two free annual meeting registrations from AAUP in recognition of the effort involved in hosting a Resident for a week.
In evaluating applications, the Professional Development Committee will consider several criteria:
1. Whether the proposed program is feasible within the framework of a week in residence.
2. Whether the proposed host press is particularly suitable for the applicant’s purposes.
3. Whether the proposed program is easily achievable in some other way (e.g., by attending an AAUP-sponsored workshop).
4. Whether the proposed program moves the applicant to a new phase in
his or her professional development.
In addition, the committee will strive for departmental, geographic and diversity.
The following individuals receive the 2008 Whiting Week-in-Residence Grants
Ricky Huard, Ohio University Press
Jennifer Fandel, Southern Illinois University Press
Chris Egan, University of North Carolina Press
Courtney Denney, University of Georgia Press
Kathleen Duffy, Harvard University Press
Applications for the 2009 program will be available by April.
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2007 AAUP Mentors
Introduced at the Annual Meeting, the 2007 AAUP Mentors have offered to provide occasional and confidential professional advice to our membership. Mentors are senior members of the AAUP community willing to discuss their careers, answer questions related to academic publishing, or provide advice on professional situations. A list of mentors, including their contact information, has been posted on AAUP's website.
This list is only available to AAUP members. To request your member login, visit us here.
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Professional Development Workshops
Each year, AAUP organizes several workshops, each focusing on
a particular area, such as electronic publishing, financial management,
book design, journals marketing, Web marketing, and electronic manuscript
editing. These workshops are usually hands-on, last one or two days (often
preceding the annual meeting), and are taught by experts from the staffs
of member presses and other publishing professionals.
2008 AAUP Text Design Workshop
Wednesday - Friday, July 16-18
Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Workshop sessions Thursday and Friday, 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
There will be informal evening activities.
Registration fee: $175
Participants will prepare a design, appropriate for format use, for a monograph provided by the instructors in advance of the workshop. A $700 fee will be paid for the design that is selected for use.
The workshop will consist of critiques; participants will receive a complete set of submitted designs.
Instructors: Rich Hendel, Amy Ruth Buchanan, Cope Cumpston
Location:
The Carolina Inn
211 Pittsboro Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
A limited number of rooms are being held for Wednesday - Friday nights; make hotel reservations directly at 1-800-962-85M19 (1-919-933-2001). Specify “Association of American University Presses Group” for discounted rooms ($159 single, $174 double).
Register by May 9 with:
Cope Cumpston
University of Illinois Press
1325 South Oak Street
Champaign, IL 61820-6903
217-333-9227
cumpston@uiuc.edu
$175 fee can be paid by credit card or check.
Make checks out to University of Illinois.
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