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Annual Meeting Planning Process Checklist

Program Planning

Total number of sessions planned by your unit:

Cosponsored Sessions

Are you planning to cosponsor a session? Yes No

Is the cosponsored session your additional session? Yes No

Will your unit be cosponsoring more than one session? Yes No   If yes, please contact the Executive Office at annualmeeting@aarweb.org.

Have you secured copies of cosponsored materials to submit with your session(s)? (participant forms, participant names, session theme, abstracts, etc…) Yes No

NB: Only one of the cosponsoring unit should submit these materials to the executive office. Hard copies are not necessary for people who submitted via OP3.

Membership requirements for participants.

Are all of your participants members? Yes No

Have you secured permission for your non-member participants from the executive director? Yes No

Submitting Your Session Information

For each session planned, online submission forms must be submitted which include: theme of session; participants, abstracts, and AV requests.

Have you transferred all pertinent information from the participant forms? Yes No

Participant Forms

Have your participants completed their participant forms? (not necessary with OP3) Yes No

Requests for Scheduling

Do you have special requests for accommodation (persons with disabilities and/or ritual observance? Yes No

Audiovisual Requests

Do you have AV requests? Yes No Have they been transferred to the session form? Yes No

Abstracts

Please submit copy for abstracts in the appropriate box in the online forms. For panel presentations, are you submitting a single abstract for the session? Yes No

Multiple Themes

Do any of your sessions have two themes? Yes No

Have you contacted the Executive Office at annualmeeting@aarweb.org to inform them? Yes No

Combined Paper & Panel Sessions

Do any of your sessions have both papers and panel segments? Yes No

Have you contacted the Executive Office at annualmeeting@aarweb.org to inform them? Yes No

 

Contact the Annual Meeting Program Director if you have any questions.

 

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