ASA Is Seattle Bound!
M.Cadigan, E. Carll, C. Gilroy,
T. Marques, T. Thomas, and J. Herting, University of Washington, and
J. McKinney, Seattle Pacific University,
If you simply attempt to enjoy Seattle by staying in or around the Sheraton Hotel and the Washington State Convention Center you will miss a key feature of Seattle: its neighborhoods. The topography of Seattle lends itself to the creation of unique spaces defined by a variety of hills, valleys, and waterfronts. The long-standing patterns of ethnic and racial segregation, migrations, and new economic dynamics uniquely define a variety of historically distinct, well-established, and also emerging features of the social and built landscape of the city. The Sheraton and Convention Center are located in the downtown shopping core. Restaurants, theaters, and iconic landmarks such as the Pike Place Market, the Seattle waterfront, Seattle Center, and the Space Needle are all within walking distance (stop by the Market to visit the world’s first Starbucks and pick up a fresh bouquet of flowers). Radiating from this downtown core are a variety of must-visit neighborhoods.
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Report of the ASA Secretary on ASA Dues: A Comparative Perspective
Mary Romero, ASA Secretary,
Arizona State University
In last month’s Footnotes, I provided the membership with data on the finances of our Association. As Secretary, part of my responsibility is to keep members informed about the Association’s business matters, especially when they directly impact members. As I reported in January Footnotes, “Member Revenues” are the second largest source of the Association’s annual revenues and constitute a third of the total. (Member revenues are mostly membership and section dues but also include what members pay for additional print journals.)
Candidates for the 2016 ASA Election
In accordance with election policies established by the ASA Council, biographical sketches of the candidates for ASA leadership (President and Vice-President) positions are published in Footnotes (see below). The candidates appear in alphabetical order by office. Biographical sketches for all candidates will be available online when ballots are sent to current voting members in mid-April.
Teaching Around the World: Sociology on the Semester at Sea Ship
Michelle M. Camacho, Fellow, American Council on Education
Michelle Camacho on the Semester at Sea ship near coast of Cochin, India
In January of 2015, I boarded the MV Explorer ship as a faculty member of the Institute for Shipboard Education and Semester at Sea (SAS) program, then operating under the academic sponsorship of the University of Virginia (UVA). From the port of San Diego we crossed the Pacific with 700 students, 35 faculty, 50 administrative staff and 150 crew members on board. In 112 days, we circumnavigated the globe visiting Japan, China, Vietnam, Myanmar (Burma), India, South Africa, Namibia, Morocco (for about 5-6 days each), and disembarked in England. True to the mission of the program, the experience reshaped my understanding of the world and my own sense of self within it; however, not in ways I had predicted. I am often asked, “Would you do it again?”
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