A I P
C O M M U N I C AT O R AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PARLIAMENTARIANS
SUMMER
Presidents Message:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
2022
Getting Back to Normal
President’s Letter
1
Educational Musings – Updates from the Educational Department
2
AIP Officers
4
Calendar of Events
4
Deadline Dates – Communicator
4
AIP 2022 Hybrid Annual Session
4
Notice of Proposed Amendments to the Bylaws 2022 Annual Session
5
2022 Annual Session Proposed Standing Rules for Hybrid Meeting
8
AIP Board Candidates
9
2022 Virtual East Coast Practicum Recap
14
The AIP Oral Examination for the Certified Professional Parliamentarian Credential 15 AIP Youth Corner
16
New AIP Dental Chapter Chartered
17
Why Aren’t You Attending BSGC Meetings?
18
Amazon Smile
19
Welcome New Members of AIP
19
As I sat there on the tarmac waiting for my 24th take-off in the last seven weeks – and which would’ve been the 26th had one convention not been local – it was nice to reflect not only on the body of work but also on the changing situation in our professional world. Some of the aspects are good and some are bad. At some point sitting in a center airline seat for a 4-hour flight did not seem preferable to the endless drone of zoom meetings. At this point in May, the mask requirement having just been lifted and airports seeing record numbers of flyers, it seemed that the pandemic was over – or at the least at a tolerable endemic level which will likely be with us for the rest of time. During those seven weeks, I did 4 conventions, a house of delegates meeting, one regular 3-day meeting and 2 annual meetings, a three-day AIP function, as well as 2 prep meetings for future conventions. All but one of these were in-person events. The one virtual event was held virtually due to the cost savings benefit of delegate travel, which is the responsibility of the parent entity. Clearly, the parliamentary world is back in full tilt. And note that I’m not bragging about my level of business – bragging would be to mention that I fit two successful turkey hunts in the middle of all of this. The world is back to full function but is not free from change. The fact that one of those
conventions was done virtually, mostly for cost savings, is clear evidence of the impact of the last two years. I might add that, after consultation and explanation of the inefficacies and inequities of various types of virtual meetings, the leaders of the virtual convention CHOSE to use virtually the same format that AIP used to hold their entirely virtual Annual Session in 2020 and the hybrid in 2021. The recently held East Coast Practicum was a success and was held entirely virtually and our upcoming Annual Session will be hybrid. We are doing this for a couple of reasons. The primary reason is that our membership demands, at least in part, some form of virtual delivery for some of our functions. Do we think this is the BEST way to deliver educational content? Absolutely not! It is the best way to deliver educational content to members and non-members who for various reasons related to money, health, or timing, could not otherwise attend and who still wish to have some part of the value of an AIP educational session. We understand that the quality of educational delivery at an in-person event is richer than the coldness of cyberspace. I am no educational theory expert, but I believe that you simply learn and retain more from an in-person experience. There are fewer distractions during the class time itself. It is far too easy when you are on a Zoom or Teams call to open your email on a second screen or drift your phone over to your unanticipated struggle with your Wordle of the day. That is not to say you cannot do that at an in-person event as well, but it just Continued on following page
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