Adults Learning Mathematics - a Research Forum

Membership Report ALM-22 AGM 2015

Current Membership Profile
Fully paid membership 2015 / 29
Freshers in 2014, current members for 2015 / 24
Freshers in 2015 / 16
Total Membership / 69
Completed Application but no payment (1 of whom will attend the conference) / 7
Registered for conference (10 July 2015)
Freshers 2015 (membership fee paid) / 4
Freshers 2015 (membership fee outstanding) / 31
Existing member (membership fee paid 2015) / 11
Lapsed member (membership fee for 2015 outstanding) / 10
Completed GoogleDocs application , membership unpaid / 1
Total / 57

Over the last 5 years, ALM has attracted more than 350 people to attend conferences and become members. These current statistics would seem to suggest a steep decline in ALM’s ability to retain members that may warrant further investigation. Whether current membership is determined by the payment or otherwise of a membership may not be a true reflection of a person’s enthusiasm for ALM, is for future trustees to decide. However, I would like to propose the following changes:

·  In future the conference fee should be sufficient to include the membership fee for that year

·  People who wish to retain their membership, but do not or cannot attend the conference should pay the membership fee for that year

·  Those attending conferences for the first time (i.e. Freshers) should not retain membership for the following year, unless they pay the membership fee for that year

International Representatives :

AUSTRALIA: Gail FitzSimons, University of Melbourne

AUSTRIA and GERMANY: Prof. Dr. Juergen Maasz, University of Linz

DENMARK: Lene Oesttergaard Johansen, Aalborg University

NETHERLANDS and BELGIUM: Kees Hoogland, APS- National Center for School Improvement, the Netherlands.

NEW ZEALAND: Janet Hogan, Papakura, South Auckland
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND: Prof. John O’Donoghue, University of Limerick

SWEDEN: Lisbeth Lindberg, Göteborgs Universitet

UNITED KINGDOM: David Kaye, London

USA: Dr. Katherine Safford, Saint Peter’s College

John J.Keogh, ALM Membership Secretary

July, 2015.

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