Establish additional sessions through co-sponsorship with other sections. Encourage each member to bring in 10 new members. Obtain the ASA list of student interests and cold call the students for membership. Membership chair needs to delegate tasks to other committee members. Mady opened a discussion about the role of book reviews in the newsletter.
Additional pages increase the costs.
Woehrle offered to be the book review editor. She will create guidelines for reviewing the books and distribute them to Council for approval. She noted that the journal Contemporary Sociology was encouraging section members to recommend special issues. Mady will have the call included in section newsletter. The committee made some progress but needs to get Council input before putting the recommendations on the ballot.