E Komo Mai, 2010-2014 board members! December 15, 2010
Posted by admin in : Uncategorized , add a commentWe begin Tuesday, January 4 and continue for two days of meetings on the 5th and 6th.
 Robert Blake, University of California, Davis |
 Mary Hammond, East-West Center |
 Madeline Spring, Arizona State University |
 Carol Chapelle, Iowa State University (outside evaluator) |
Since NFLRC was refunded this past August and we are now in the first year of a new grant cycle covering the years 2010–2014, there’s lots to tell you about our plans for the next few years and your input and feedback is really important to us at this time. Put more formally, the object of this meeting is for the External Evaluator (Carol Chapelle) and the Advisory Board (Bob Blake, Mary Hammond, and Madeline Spring) to meet with us and collect data for a formative evaluation of NFLRC projects, which will become part of the public record. Of course we also hope that you will have a good time while you are here.
Please browse the material on this site at your leisure, and have a safe and comfortable journey here. We’ll see you soon!
Dick, David, Jim, Deborah, Stephen, and the rest of the crew
E Komo Mai, 2006-2010 board members! April 20, 2010
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Dear Board Members,
We are eagerly looking forward to meeting you in the evening of the 19th for dinner and to two days of meetings on the 20th and 21st. As you know, this is an important meeting – the first meeting of the NFLRC Advisory Board since January 2008 and the last before our grant expires in August, the purpose of which is for the Board to conduct a summative evaluation of NFLRC activities for the period 2006-2010. Your evaluation will be part of the annual report submitted at the end of the grant and will become a public document.
To this end, we have posted a lot of source material on this site (a few reports are still being worked on and will be posted in a few days), starting with the grant proposal we submitted in 2005 and the somewhat scaled-down version of that submitted when grant budgets were announced, the annual reports that we have submitted to the U.S. Department of Education each year, your previous recommendations, and materials (overviews, updates, websites, and evaluation reports) for each project we have conducted and each activity we’ve carried out. We will have a folder with hard copies of these documents for you to consult during the meeting, and of course much of the material will also be discussed in your meetings with project personel.
One innovation this time is that we are scheduling a session for you to meet with the directors of our sister-centers, the national resource centers (NRCs) in the School of Pacific and Asian Studies, together with the deans of both Languages, Linguistics & Literature and SPAS. In the past, these folks have been invited to our social events, but given the extent to our collaboration with them on virtually every project during the past four years, we thought it would also be good for you to meet with them as a group.
Have a safe and comfortable journey – we look forward to seeing you soon!
Aloha,
Dick, David, Jim, Deborah, Stephen, and the rest of the crew
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