Happy New Year!

Happy Belated New Year! And welcome back to Ann Arbor for the Winter 2010 semester!


The beginning of a new year and a new semester always seems invigorating. In honor of the new year, I’d like to offer a few M-PAW New Year’s resolutions. These are goals and ways of engaging with our work that will give renewed direction to our efforts!


This semester:


1) We will put ideas into action in all areas of conference planning
a)We will seek confirmation for all potential speakers and performers
b)We will finalize all major space reservations
c)We will launch 2011 conference outreach at the MBLGTACC 2010
d)We will launch our MBLGTACC 2011 development initiative



2) We will expand our impact on campus
a)We will double our membership
b)New leadership will lead on specific elements of the MBLGTACC 2011
c)We will engage new university units in collaboration



3) We will keep pushing the envelope 
a)We will pursue creative and fresh ideas and approaches  
b)Our work will be thorough and professional  
c)We will meet obstacles with determination and innovation




Please join me in these resolutions. This semester promises to be a critical phase in conference planning as our ideas begin to come to fruition. In addition to these broad resolutions, we each have our own resolutions. Here are what a few M-PAW members have said about their resolutions for the group.


Gabe   "My resolution is to make a solid to-do list for the entire conference."


Loren   "I am going to focus on getting smaller, local grants."


Colin   "Starting with this post, I want to announce my resolution of at least one post every two weeks. Sometimes there are more exciting things we want to post as we go, but there will be at least two a month!"


Mical   "This year, I want to get as many people as I can to be involved in all aspects of M-PAW ad the conference planning."


Comment below with your own resolutions!


Thanks for your continued efforts and best of luck with new classes!