NIU Chapter of ACA

Reminder! Meeting this Thursday! (October 3rd) in Dusable 418 at 5:00pm! We will be announcing something awesome, so come and check it out! See you then!

Congrats on surviving your first week back to school, NIU! The NIU-Chapter of ACA is ready for a great semester!! Our first meeting will be held this upcoming Thursday, September 5th at 5:00 pm in DuSable 418! We hope to see you all there!!

NIU-ACA members-

Please take a moment out of your time to click the link elect our new e-board members for the 2013-2014 school year. The election will close this Tuesday, May 7th at 10:00pm.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2YS8Y26

Thank you!

Potluck on Thursday will be in Watson 110! Don't forget to click the survey link that I posted a couple days ago and answer what food your bringing to the event. See you all then!

Interested in running for a NIU-ACA E-Board position?
The following positions are open for elections: President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer. It's a ton of fun and looks great on a resume!

If you are interested in a position, please email Samantha at [email protected] by Tuesday, April 23rd at 9:00pm. After names are received, a ballot will be put together. All new e-board members will meet with Samantha before the semester ends to learn more about position responsibilities and to update paperwork.

Here is a description of responsibilities for each position:

President:
-Conducting and planning all monthly general NIU-ACA member meetings.
-Organizing meetings with E-board members.
-Emailing NIU-ACA members about upcoming events.
-Planning upcoming events and speakers.
-Maintaining the page.
-Keeping paperwork with the organization up to date with the student association.
-Submit any official membership paperwork to faculty advisors and money to NIU-ACA account.
-Advertise NIU-ACA events.
-Communicating often with faculty advisors Jack King and Jim Thomas in person and by email.
-Elect mini positions and communicate often with them.



Vice President:
-If the president is unable to conduct a monthly NIU-ACA general member meeting due to an emergency or illness, the vice president will take over the role of the president and conduct that meeting.
-Communicate often with the president to make sure up to date on news.
-Help president plan out events if needed.
-Attend all e-board meetings when planned.
-Attend all monthly NIU-ACA members meetings.



Secretary:
-Taking detailed minutes of each meeting and event. This is important because if someone misses a meeting, they can refer to the minutes to find out details of what was missed.
-Attendance to all monthly NIU-ACA meetings is required for this position (If your not there, who will take the minutes?)
-Attend all e-board meetings when planned.
-Submitting the minutes to president and faculty advisors so they can submit it to the NIU-ACA webpage.
-Organizing any paperwork given to them and have it on file in case the president needs to refer back to it.



Treasurer:
-Handle all funds for the organization.
-Submit any official membership paperwork to faculty advisors and/or president.
-Update president monthly of the account balance and funds available to use for events.
-Attend all e-board meetings when planned.
-Attend all monthly NIU-ACA members meetings.

Hello everyone! Our Potluck and final meeting of the semester will be THIS Thursday, April 25th from 6:00-8:30pm. The location will be announced by this Tuesday. Please take a moment to click on this survey link and select Yes or No if you are planning to attend and what food item that you plan to bring! We need everyone to do this so we have an idea of how many people are coming to Thursday's Potluck. Thank you!!

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Z3LH2TS

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Thank you to all who came tonight to the Second Annual Life After Incarceration Panel Event. I am so proud of not only how this event turned out, but of this organization as a whole. I have the best e-board and NIU-ACA members that I could ever ask for. Deciding to run for president of this organization and take on this responsibility was by far the best decision I have made in my undergraduate career. It is moments like tonight that make me so proud to be an NIU-ACA member. Thank you everyone who put in the work to make tonight's event possible!

Just a reminder!

The NIU Chapter of the American Correctional Association sociology student organization is sponsoring a panel on Life After Incarceration on Thursday, April 4 at 5 PM in the Sky Room at the Holmes Student Center.

The panelists include James Kluppelberg who was recently exonerated for the crime of arson and murder after serving 24 years in prison, Michael Brown who was released from prison after serving 37 years for murder, Dr. Jody Dewey a former NIU Sociology grad and now a professor at Concordia College who will be discussing the findings of her recent research which followed a group of ex-offenders who are now trying to remain out of prison, and Andre Joachim, a former NIU-ACA vice president.

The session is free and open to the public.

Tell your friends!!

Reminder! Meeting tomorrow (March 7th) in Dusable 212 at 5:00pm! See you then!

Couple Reminders:

-Our February meeting is this Thursday, February 7th in Dusable 212! Bring friends! We really need more members :)

-CHECK YOUR EMAILS! Jim has began to send out emails with sign ups for prison tours for official members! First come, first serve!

-Samantha

Hello everyone! Hope you all have been having a wonderful winter break! Just a reminder that we have our first meeting the first week of classes on Thursday, January 17th at 5:00pm in Dusable 212! It should be a rather quick meeting with just a preview of all that we have planned this semester. See you all in a few weeks!

-Samantha

Merry Christmas everyone!!