2003 SACC Annual Report

Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (SACC)
2003 Annual Report to the American Anthropological Association

Submitted by Bob Muckle, Immediate Past-President of SACC

1. Membership. The number of members consistently hovered around 260, including about 200 regular, 55 student, and five associate members. This is not a significant change from the previous year. Effective May, 2003 'Sustaining Member' was added to the membership category for SACC.

2. Finances. Net assets at the beginning of the year were $8,678.11. Net assets as of September 30, 2003 were $16,146.31. There is not expected to be a significant change before the end of 2003.

3. AAA Meeting Activities. SACC was involved in three invited sessions at the AAA meetings. This included the annual SACC-Invited 'Five Fields Update' organized by Omara Abe. Under the coordination of SACC program representative Rebecca Stein-Frankle, SACC also co-sponsored two invited sessions with the National Association of Student Anthropologists (NASA) - 'The Spirit of Anthropology' and 'Teaching Peace.'

4. Spring Meetings. The annual Spring meetings were held in Vancouver, Canada with the principal themes of Teaching Anthropology, the Indigenous Peoples of the Northwest Coast, and Contemporary West Coast Canadian Culture.

Average daily registrations were about 70 and in addition to presentations, the meetings included walking tours of Vancouver, and field trips to the UBC Museum of Anthropology, Granville Island, a prehistoric archaeological site and First Nations' cultural education center, and a historic fur trade fort.

5. Communications. SACC continues to offer four primary avenues of communication - section news in Anthropology News, a web site (www.anthro.cc), a listserve (SACC-L), and the serial publication Teaching Anthropology/SACC Notes. The web site primarily provides information on SACC conferences, board and business meeting minutes, teaching resources, and links to other sites. The listserve tends to focus on matters related to teaching. Threads during 2003 included suggestions for videos for classroom teaching. Teaching Anthropology continues to publish twice each year. As usual, most articles appearing in the 2003 issues were based on presentations given at the SACC-Invited 'Five Field Update' at the AAA meetings and presentations at the Spring SACC meetings. Both the section news in Anthropology News and Teaching Anthropology continued to come under the editorship of Lloyd Miller.

The web site and listserv were handled by Ann Popplestone.

6. Outreach Efforts. SACC continues to promote outreach. Ann Kaupp, SACC Officer responsible for K-12 and Outreach, continues to solicit teaching resources which could be of use to K-12 and public educators (and ultimately be placed on the SACC web site) and chair a recently-formed committee to discuss ways of giving SACC more visibility as an important resource for educators. Vice-President Mark Lewine continues to work on a survey of non-AAA members who are teaching anthropology in community colleges. The ultimate goal is to encourage those educators to join SACC for networking and professional support. SACC continues it support for community outreach projects and centers for community research, such as those based in historic archaeology at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland and Capilano College in North Vancouver. SACC offered support for the continuation of archaeology technology programs being offered by a consortium of California colleges that were being considered for discontinuation by college administrators. SACC also continues to outreach to other sections, such as the co-sponsoring of invited sessions at the AAA meetings.

7. Academic Relations. SACC, particularly through treasurer Mel Johnson and Vice-President Mark Lewine, has continued working closely with the AAA's Academic Relations department on matters relating to institutional memberships. This includes the proposal by Academic Relations' Kathleen Terry-Sharp, endorsed by the SACC executive board, that a community college division be established within the AAA Office of Academic Relations, resulting in something akin to an 'institutional membership' for a fee of $100 (and for which an institution will receive five copies of Teaching Anthropology.

8. Future Plans (3-5 Year Time Frame). SACC will continue to promote communication and cooperation among anthropologists and other teachers of anthropology. SACC will also continue to promote ways of easing the process for community college students to access resources that can enable them to pursue and achieve careers in anthropology. To these ends, SACC (primarily through a recently-formed SACC Endowment Committee, chaired by Mel Johnson) is currently working on the creation of an endowment fund. Possible candidates for endowments may include community college students going into a bachelor's program, adjunct instructors in community colleges, and students who want to teach in a community college.

9. Section Officers (November 24, 2002 - November 23, 2003) President: Bob Muckle (bmuckle@capcollege.bc.ca); President-Elect: Phil Naftaly (naftalyp@acc.sunyacc.edu); Immediate Past-President: Charles Ellenbaum (ellenbau@cdnet.cod.edu); Vice-President for Membership and Development: Mark Lewine (mark.lewine@tri-c.edu); Treasurer: Mel Johnson (majohns@hotmail.com); Secretary: Tony Balzano (abalzano@sussex.cc.nj.us); AAA Program Committee Representative: Rebecca Stein-Frankle (steinrl@lavc.edu); 'Anthropology News' and 'Teaching Anthropology' Editor: Lloyd Miller (Lloyd.miller@mchsi.com); 'Teaching Anthropology' Assistant Editor: Diane Wilhelm (dwhilhelmdian@aol.com); Web/Listserv Guru: Ann Popplestone (popplestone@tri-c.edu); and K-12 and Outreach Chair: Ann Kaupp (kaupp.ann@nmnh.si.edu).

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