A I P
C O M M U N I C AT O R AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PARLIAMENTARIANS
SPRING
2024
Presidents Message:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
West Coast Practicum • January 18 – 20, 2024
President’s Message
1
Education Department
3
AIP Board of Directors
4
Calendar of Events
4
A Message from the Accrediting Department
5
Newly Credentialed
6
Membership Department Update
7
Virtual Practicum
8
AIP Membership Committee
9
Save the Date
9
Book to Highlight
10
This past January, the American Institute of Parliamentarians (AIP) held its annual West Coast Practicum (WCP) at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. The Practicum was subtitled “In the Tradition of Sturgis…” and served as a deep dive into the recently released American Institute of Parliamentarians Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure 2nd Edition (AIPSC2). What made the Practicum such an overwhelming success was the fact that 62 registrants attended including eight faculty (clearly one of the most widely-attended and successful practicums in recent memory)! Everyone who participated was treated to an outstanding review of what hopefully will become the go-to parliamentary authority. Robert M. Peskin DDS, CP In addition to all of the exceptional President presentations, we were indeed fortunate to have on hand Project Manager Kay Allison Crews, CPP-T, PRP (who served as General Coordinator for the Practicum) and the entire authorship team including Lucy Hicks Anderson, JD, CP-T, PRP; C.J. Cavin, JD, CPP-T, PRP; Al Gage, CPP-T, PRP (WCP Curriculum Director); Barry Glazer, MD, CPP-T; Glen Hall, DDS, CP-T; Atul Kapur, MD, CPP-T, PRP; the Honorable Michael Malamut, JD, CPP-T, PRP; and Shannon Sun, JD, CPP-T, PRP. Many of the presentations were based on Alice Sturgis’s foundational 7 Basic Principles including Completeness, Simplicity and Clarity, Conciseness, Usability, Common Procedures, Conformance to Court Decisions, and Up-to-Dateness. Although the book was released in September, its effective date was January 1, 2024 which gave all organizations who cite the “current edition” of the American Institute of Parliamentarians Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure ample time to familiarize themselves with the differences between the first and second editions. Indeed, for Continued on following page
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