Submitted by Dr. Phillip Naftaly, Immediate Past-President

1. ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING THE PERIOD COVERED

Membership: Membership in the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges has remained stable during the past year with a total of 263 members and four subscribers as of November 2004. Of the total number of memberships, 202 are regular memberships. The new category of "sustaining member" was begun in May of 2003 and according to the November 2004 statistics there are two sustaining members.

Financial Balances: Through November 2004, SACC activities generated revenues of $20,579 and incurred expenses of $15,464. Due to the lateness in the year of the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association and the related expenses that SACC has incurred, we have no final fund balance numbers but estimate that our 2004 ending fund balance will be approximately $17,500. This figure represents a $3,000 increase from the 2003 fund balance.

At the present time the cost to publish Teaching Anthropology/ SACC Notes is less than $1000. Future concerns revolve around the expenses associated with AnthroSource which could increase our publication budget by 300 percent. Such increases may necessitate raises in membership dues and conference registration fees. Issues related to publication cost and possible revenue sources will be discussed at our board and business meetings during our Annual Meeting this spring in Savannah, Georgia.

AAA Meeting Activities: SACC once again sponsored the "Current Issues in Anthropology: Five Fields Update," at this year's AAA Annual Meeting. A second planned session regarding student learning outcomes was cancelled due to the turmoil surrounding the venue and date changes connected with this year's AAA Annual Meeting. The SACC Board was represented at the AAA Annual meeting by our President elect, Past President, Treasurer, and Publication Editor.

SACC Meeting Activities: This year SACC held a Fall Meeting as well as our customary Annual Meeting which occurs each spring. Our Annual Meeting was located in Montreal and attended by approximately 60 members. The theme of the conference was "The Indigenous Peoples of North America in Contemporary Times." Dr. Joe Edward Watkins delivered the keynote address titled, "Contemporary Relationships Between Indigenous Peoples and Anthropologists." Paper sessions were followed by group excursions to the McCord Museum, The Montreal Museum of Archaeology and History, the Canadian Guild of Crafts, and the greater Montreal area via a multicultural city tour. After much discussion during our board meeting, a committee was formed to evaluate and possibly change our current mission statement. The discussion of our mission statement is scheduled to continue during our 2005 Annual Meeting.

The SACC Fall Meeting was held in the San Francisco Bay Area at Ohlone College. Seventeen SACC members attended the meeting which included trips to a reconstructed Ohlone Village, Mission San Jose, and Muir Woods in addition to paper sessions. The Keynote speaker was Dr. Susan Sperling who presented a paper titled: "Tribal Secrets and Pollution Anxieties: Ashley Montagu, McCarthyism, and Postwar Anthropology."

Website Development: SACC has acquired a new URL designation and is in the process of creating an improved website to better meet the needs of our members as well as the general public. An Electronic Information Committee has been formed to help oversee the redevelopment of our website.

Outreach Efforts: SACC has broadened efforts to identify leadership for regional networks that will connect community college faculty with K-12 and university anthropology faculty. In conjunction with the AAA and AACC, SACC has distributed a survey that solicits information about full and part-time faculty teaching anthropology to 840 community college members of the AACC. To date, there have been more than three hundred responses. Further ties were created during our SACC Fall Meeting when initial contact occurred between SACC Vice President Mark Lewine and the leadership of Tribal Colleges.

Vice President Lewine has participated in two teleconferences as a member of the anthropology Education Committee and facilitated a commitment from the AEC to add community colleges to all programs and plans related to anthropology education.

SACC has been represented in an NSF strategic planning session which has resulted in the publication of an action plan for the NSF Social, Behavioral and Economic Science Directorate which includes community colleges in future efforts to develop inclusion of community college educational research programs in NSF-supported grants.

Changes in Bylaws or Governance Structure: There have been no changes in the SACC bylaws or governance structure.

2. FUTURE PLANS OR ACTIVITIES (3-5) YEAR TIME FRAME

Projects Underway: Our long-range plans are to continue our major perennial activities which are to hold an annual meeting, publish a biannual publication, participate in the AAA governance structure, sponsor the Five Field Update session at the AAA Annual Meeting, and maintain a web site and a listserv.

In keeping with the theme of promoting communication and cooperation between anthropologists and other teachers of anthropology, SACC intends to broaden and complete a number of the projects that have recently been initiated. These initiatives include the construction of an enhanced SACC web site and creation of a publication protocol that will address the opportunities presented by AnthroSource.

Our effort to collect data about how anthropology is taught at community colleges will continue with a follow-up mailing of surveys to community colleges that have not responded to our original SACC/AAA survey distribution, a distribution of surveys to community colleges that are not members of the AACC, and a follow-up mailing encouraging membership and participation in our organizations to those colleges that have responded to the original survey but have not become affiliated.

Collaboration With Others: We plan to continue our work with AAA and AACC in our effort to gather data about how anthropology is taught at community colleges with an aim toward creating a better framework that will ultimately facilitate collaboration between anthropology instructors who teach anthropology at various educational levels and in a wide number of institutional settings. SACC will continue to co-sponsor invited sessions at the Annual Meeting of the AAA with other sections and we also intend to continue to coordinate with AAA regarding the minority scholarship program.

3) OTHER ITEMS

Issues and Recommendation: SACC has been particularly concerned with two recent issues. The first is the cost, impact on membership, and implementation of AnthroSource. Second, we are concerned about amendments which have the effect of severely restricting conference meeting locations and hotels. While each of these is an extremely complicated issue, we fell that our situation as a relatively small section with an unusual hybrid publication is not always fully understood and that the position of SACC does not always receive proper consideration when more global types of solutions are sought and implemented.

Section Officers, 2004:
President: Phillip Naftaly (naftalyp@sunyacc.edu)
President elect: Dianne Chidester (dianneky@hotmail.com) Immediate Past-President: Bob Muckle (bmuckle@capcollege.bc.ca)
Vice-President for Membership and Development: Mark Lewine (Mark.lewine@tri-c.edu)
Treasurer: Mel Johnson (majhons1@hotmail.com)
Secretary: Tony Balzano (abalzano@sussex.edu)
Program Chairperson: Rebecca Stein-Frankle (rsl@linkline.com)
'Teaching Anthropology' Editor: Lloyd Miller (Lloyd.miller@mchsi.com)
Anthropology' Assistant Editor: Diane Wilhelm (dwilhelmdian@aol.com)
K-12 Outreach Chair: Ann Kaupp (kaupp.ann@nmnh.si.edu)