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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear ASA Members,</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a call to members of the ASA for nominations to serve on the Education and Public Outreach Chapter (EPOC) Steering Committee. Nominations are open for the following
positions:</span></p>
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<i><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ordinary Members</span></i></p>
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<i><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Student Representative</span></i></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Membership positions for ordinary members on the Steering Committee are for two years in a staggered rotation. </span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Student Representative position is for one year and is open to any current student member of the ASA. </span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If we receive more nominations than positions available, we will organise an online election which would be held in late August.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New members will take their positions in early September.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Details about EPOC and committee responsibilities and structure may be found at: </span><span style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wzTGC1WLPxcM5nA9nTL2hMJ?domain=asaepoc.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; color: blue; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://asaepoc.org/</span></a></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please consider nominating and serving on the EPOC Steering Committee. Self-nominations are fine. If you wish to nominate another EPOC member please ensure you have the
nominee’s permission. We are committed to diversity and encourage nominations that reflect the diversity of the ASA community.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To nominate please send an email to jbondell@swin.edu.au with your name, affiliation, together with a one or two paragraph outline of your interest in the position (this
will be included in an election form if needed). Please contact me if you require any further information.</span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">if you are an ASA member but not yet an EPOC member, you may join EPOC at any time. Please update your chapter memberships via the ASA Member page and also send an email
to jbondell@swin.edu.au with name, affiliation and status (student, ECR, etc) notifying the chapter.</span></p>
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<b><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nominations are due by 23:59 AEST Sunday 15 August 2021.</span></b></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cheers-</span></font></p>
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<font face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jackie Bondell</span></font></p>
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