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Dear WACRA Member,
Your membership expires at the end of December, 2004. We invite you to
participate in the exciting activities planned for 2005 and to renew your ACT-WACRA®
membership for 2005 by completing and returning the
membership renewal form with
payment to:
WACRA®
23 Mackintosh Avenue
Needham (Boston) MA 02492-1218 U.S.A
Please fax to +781-444-1548 your up-dated renewal form (current address,
position, affiliation and email) and include a Visa or MC credit card number and
the expiration date, or send your check issued to WACRA, drawn on an American
Bank (with the magnetic bank number imprint on the bottom of the check). If you
are missing a back copy of ACT - WACRA publications, let us know and we will
send you one copy of your choice with your membership renewal.
Preview Year 2005 and Important Dates
(take a moment and mark your calendar)
We have planned a variety of exciting and intellectually stimulating activities
for the coming year:
The ‘WACRA Case Standard Setting Committee’, established to develop standards
for evaluating cases and identify the impact of case writing and teaching in the
rank and tenure decision, has published the results of the international survey
it conducted. For details visit www.wacra.org.
Responding to the survey, in 2005 WACRA will launch the refereed ‘International
Journal of Case Method Research & Application’. To keep pace with the time,
WACRA will publish the Journal electronically. New issues will be posted on the
WACRA website as they become available. Journal issues will be accessible to
members and others who have paid the annual member dues of $75 (for advanced
graduate students $65 and retired faculty $35) via password. After one year the
Journal issues will be placed in the public domain and will become available to
the general public.
January 2-6, 2005, ACT 8, Eighth Creative Teaching conference in San
Juan, Puerto Rico, USA (ACT- Academy for Creative Teaching and WACRA).
January 15, 2005, For WACRA 2005 at Mendel University, Brno, Czech
Republic, July 3-6, 2005, submit your paper, abstract, workshop, panel proposal
etc. to:
WACRA® Conference Office -
Denise Smith
111 Britt Road
East Hartford, CT 06118 U.S.A.
Telephone: +860-895-1930
Fax: +860-569-0663
email:
smithdmwacra@comcast.net
Send a Microsoft Word or a WordPerfect attachment by way of email (or mail a
hard copy and diskette).
March 1, 2005, Registration for the 2005 WACRA Educational/Cultural
Post-conference Tour through Moravia and Bohemia ending in Prague. Sites include
Moravsky kras (Maoravian Karst), Asterlitz (battle field of the 1805 Three
Emperors battle: Napoleon, the Russian Czar and the Emperor of Austria), Hluboka
Chateau, Cesky Krumlov, Karlstejn Castle (near Prague). Tour includes:
transportation in modern tour bus, 3 nights hotel including breakfast, 2
lunches, 3 dinners, entrance fees, guides. Early registration is required,
seating is limited.
March 1, 2005, WACRA suggests that you make airline reservations early to
secure a reasonably priced ticket. Fly into Vienna, take a train to Brno,
participate in the post conference tour and fly out of Prague.
March 25, 2005, Register for the International WACRA 2005 Conference and
reserve your hotel room!!!
The reservation for blocks of rooms for WACRA expires on April 15, 2005. After
this date, cooperating hotels will accept reservations at the special conference
rates only on a space available basis. Further details will be posted on the
WACRA web site www.wacra.org.
April 22, 2005, Case Writing in ACTION workshop in New Hall Conference
Room at Utica College, Utica, New York, U.S.A. Visit www.wacra.org for details.
July 3 - 6, 2005, 22nd WACRA Conference at Mendel University, Brno, Czech
Republic
July 7 - 10, 2005, WACRA Educational/Cultural Post-conference Tour. Day
One - Excursion to Austerlitz (Three Emperors' battle in 1805) and Moravsky kras
(Moravian Karst) includes tour of the caves by boat, hiking, traveling by small
roadtrain and cable car. Includes open air dinner. Overnight stay in conference
hotel in Brno. Day Two - Travel through beautiful Moravian country side to visit
Namest nad Oslavou, Telc. Overnight stay in Trebon. Day Three - visit Cesky
Krumlov, undoubtedly one fo the most beautiful towns in the Czech Republic,
Ceske Budejovice, Hluboka Chateau and Karlstejn Castle (near Prague). Overnight
stay. Day Four - After breakfast travel to Prague. Short introductory city tour.
Educational/cultural post conference tour ends. Seating is limited. Early
registration required March 1, 2005 For additional details and photos, visit
www.wacra.org under Upcoming Events
October 7, 2005, Annual Case Writing in ACTION workshop at Babson
College, Wellesley, MA, U.S.A. Visit www.wacra.org for details.
November 8, 2005, Submit papers/proposals/abstracts for ACT 9 - Creative
Teaching Conference (sites under consideration Italy, Switzerland, Caribbean
Island. Le us know which site your prefer!)
November 15, 2005, Register for ACT 9 - Creative Teaching Conference.
Best wishes for the Holiday Season and for a
Healthy, Happy, Prosperous, and Peaceful New Year!
- Hans Klein, Denise Smith, Stan Stanczewski, Marsha
Richmond
- WACRA Executive and Advisory Boards
- International Journal of Case Method Research & Application Editorial
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