[Reading-hall-of-fame] Re: Open Letter to RHF Membership on Move to LRA from ILA

[Jack Cassidy]

Didn't we already have a survey about with the majority favoring the move
to LRA?

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 12:10 PM Douglas Ray Reutzel <Ray.Reutzel at uwyo.edu>
wrote:

> July 17, 2017
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> Dear *Reading Hall of Fame* Colleagues:
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>
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> I am writing to give you further information about the continuing
> discussion around moving the *Reading Hall of Fame* Breakfast, Induction
> Ceremony, and Inductee Inaugural Presentations from the long standing
> relationship and association with ILA/IRA to LRA in the future.  Members of
> the *Reading Hall of Fame* who attended the ILA conference discussed this
> matter further on Sunday morning, July 16th, 2017 at their annual RHF
> Business Meeting.   We were encouraged by those present to advance and
> continue this discussion but wait to make a decision until more information
> from both LRA and ILA is made available.  In what follows, I share with you
> the essence of the discussions we had at that meeting for your
> information.  Vicki Risko, RHF Secretary, will also post the RHF Sunday
> morning meeting minutes to the RHF website.
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>
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> LRA President, Gay Ivey, and an RHF member, informed the group that as
> President of LRA she is repurposing the Saturday morning of LRA for
> alternative format, organization cosponsored sessions, etc., to facilitate
> more time and space during the regular LRA program for inclusion of vetted
> sessions and papers.   Most of us already know that LRA has grown to a size
> that it is now constrained by space limitations for accepting papers and
> sessions on the program.  Gay’s idea was to give RHF a space and block of
> time, roughly from 8-10:30AM on Saturday, the last day of the LRA
> conference for the breakfast, induction ceremony and for inaugural
> addresses by the previous year’s inductees.  RHF members present at the ILA
> breakfast raised questions about whether RHF members would indeed stay to
> attend the RHF functions if these were placed on the last day of the LRA
> conference.  If last day on the program status was what LRA could offer to
> the RHF for their future events, it was thought that the move to LRA may
> prove to be less attractive to majority of RHF membership.
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>
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> RHF member, Diane Lapp, indicated that ILA was hearing that the RHF was
> considering an exit from ILA.  Upper ILA leadership had expressed to her,
> Diane, that they wanted to have us wait out announcements about some
> upcoming changes before making a final decision.  Many RHF members,
> especially those traveling internationally, expressed problems with
> attending ILA meetings in summers when travel prices are much higher.
> Diane indicated that a “time of year” change was being negotiated for ILA
> in 2019 because the summer dates just weren’t working out.  Furthermore in
> a follow up meeting with current ILA President, Doug Fisher, I learned that
> this is indeed the case.  Doug was most eager to retain the RFH at ILA
> meetings and asked what it would take to have us reconsider our decision to
> move to LRA since the purpose of having the RHF meeting at ILA was to
> accomplish our stated mission of conveying the findings of research to
> practitioners to close the research-practice gap.  Doug asked that we go
> slowly on this decision so that they, ILA, could hear what changes we would
> ask them to make to retain RHF at ILA in the future.
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> In consequence, I plan to send out an anonymous survey to RHF members with
> a series of open ended questions to gather more information to inform the
> discussion about a potential move to LRA.
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>
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> At the same time, I propose we continue to work with LRA and LRA President
> Gay Ivey to frame a proposal for RHF to pursue a potential move to LRA.
> This proposal would need to address the constraints and conditions that
> would be a part of the decision to make a move or not make a move from ILA
> to LRA.  In any case, I believe the mere discussion of an RHF move has
> heightened awareness of the *Reading Hall of Fame* and its intrinsic
> historic and intellectual value added to any conference or organization.
> It is indeed nice to be “wanted.”
>
>
>
> Please respond when the survey comes out in subsequent weeks so that we
> can capture information in a summary fashion to share with the membership
> of RHF and with ILA and LRA to inform our decision making process.  If
> there are other concerns you’d like me to address as we proceed with this
> process, please do not hesitate to contact me.
>
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> Best,
>
>
> D. Ray Reutzel
>
> President
>
> Reading Hall of Fame 2017-2019
>
> ray.reutzel at uwyo.edu
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*Jack Cassidy, Ph.D.*
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