INCASE
NEWSLETTER October 2,
2011
INCASE ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP
MEETING
HELD SEPTEMBER 19,
2011
SAN DIEGO,
CALIFORNIA
After
the dinner reception for members, President Ed Reading opened the meeting by
having the INCASE Board Members introduce themselves. Then representatives of schools which have
already been awarded Accreditation were asked to introduce themselves.
Topics
reviewed were:
INCASE
no longer will be Accrediting Addiction Studies Programs, since NASAC will now
begin taking over that responsibility.
This means that INCASE is once again primarily a membership organization
of college and university faculty who teach addiction studies. INCASE will now focus more on membership
services.
The
Board will be surveying INCASE members to help assess the current arrangement
we have by sharing the printed JOURNAL OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE with AMERSA. This will help the Board determine our
affiliation with that Journal, since it is so different from our former JOURNAL
OF TEACHING THE ADDICTIONS. The Board
will also investigate the possibility of an online journal which will better
suite the needs of the organization, with or without a paper hard-copy journal.
Members
are asked to continue to submit articles for the JOURNAL OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE to
Dan Yalisov for review to be published.
The
INCASE Annual Meeting, held in conjunction with NCAD will be evaluated by
INCASE members via an on-line survey.
Several issues have been raised by members concerning the value of
participation, including the time of the conference being too early in the
semester, the lack of a specific academic identity, costs, etc. The Board will re-evaluate this issue and
make a determination about next year prior to the end of this semester.
An
open discussion was held among those present about topics noted above, as well
as any other topics that the members wanted the board to consider.
The
membership will be sent a list of committees with responsibilities and Chair
contacts. Non Board members are asked to
review them and contact the chairs to become more involved in INCASE.
The
meeting was closed and Joe Rosenfeld conducted an entertaining auction of T-shirts,
books by INCASE members, sweatshirts, and other items from colleges represented
at INCASE. The proceeds from the auction
will be used for a registration scholarship to next year’s conference.
Thanks
were given to John Korkow for coordinating this year’s meeting with NCAD…and
this dinner/meeting. (Special note was
made of his 50th birthday yesterday! LOL) Tonight’s meeting will be followed by
optional “entertainment” at a nearby theater, The Lion King in 3D. Tomorrow’s optional dinner will be held at a
nearby restaurant, and Wednesday’s Board Meeting will be held at 7 AM at the
Terrace Deli for breakfast, prior to the workshop presentations.
Ed Reading