President's Corner
N4A Members,
I want to announce that Teresa Evans-Hunter, our N4A Executive Director, has formally resigned from her position effective November 30, 2011. On behalf of our Board of Directors, and our members as a whole, I would like to sincerely thank Teresa for her years of service to our organization. Teresa took over as Executive Director and hit the ground running. She educated our board on the realities and principles of a strong non-profit organization. She was also instrumental in helping us grow membership, promote N4A nationally, and solidify our national office operations in Raleigh, NC.
Jessica Delaney was hired in July, 2011 at the National Office as an intern and will assume the majority of Teresa's duties during our transition to NACDA. She will work in Raleigh until June, 2013 as we finalize all transitional activities with NACDA. Jessica along with Kim Dittman will continue to manage our National Office. Jessica's email address is jessica_delaney@nfoura.org.
In addition, we have two other individuals who are assisting our organization in our transition to NACDA. We have Lauren DeLay who was hired as an intern on the campus of Baylor University to assist the N4A and the President Elect, Bart Byrd. The last individual involved in our transition is Jamie Bouyer, who is employed by NACDA and assigned to work with N4A. She recently visited our National Office in November and will also spend time with our Board of Directors at our January mid-year meeting.
I want to thank all four of those individuals as they help N4A make a seamless transition to NACDA. As a part of our transition, Jessica is working with Jamie to create a new website that will be a part of the NACDA website. Our website is one of the most important items for communication of information for our membership. We have asked our Board to submit suggestions but we will continue to take thoughts by email to Jessica Delaney.
Other reminders for members:
- Renew your membership for 2011 - 2012 now
- Submit concurrent workshop proposals for the Buffalo National Convention based on our tracks
- Review the legislative affairs committee link on the website for proposed NCAA legislation
- For those interested, submit your application for the PDI (Professional Development Institute) in Buffalo
- Check the N4A website for all N4A award programs with posted upcoming deadlines
- Members who have previously elected to earn their certification through obtaining 10 CEU's (Continuing Education Unit's) need to have all of their information submitted to the National Office no later than December 31, 2011
Our N4A Board of Directors will be meeting at the end of January. If you feel there are pressing issues that our organization should be addressing, please feel free to email me.
Good luck to everyone as the fall semester/quarter finalizes for each of you and your students.
Joe
Joseph P. Luckey, Ed.D.
N4A President (www.nfoura.org)
Director- Athletic Academic Services
University of Memphis
600 Wilder Tower
Memphis, TN 38152-3520
(901) 678-2714
(901) 678-4695 (fax)
jluckey@memphis.edu