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Welcome
from VASTA's president Beth McGee
VASTA's Statements of Mission & Principles

NEWS

VASTA is converting its listserv over to a Yahoo Group. The anticipated date to finish the move is September 1, 2008. We are encouraging all people interested in discussing voice & speech to enroll in the new service. We are excited about the possibilities this group will give our membership and all the users of the Vox, and hope to see you there. More information about this move is available via a letter from the Director of Technology; information on how to sign up for VASTAvox 2.0 Yahoo Group is available on VASTA's VASTAvox page.

VASTA's Clyde Vinson Memorial Scholarship Announced

The VASTA Endowment Grants and Awards Committee is pleased to announce the first of two awards that VASTA will be making in 2008. After a hiatus to grow the VASTA Endowment, we're please to reintroduce  VASTA's Clyde Vinson Memorial Scholarship.  

VASTA's Clyde Vinson Memorial Scholarship includes: 

• one year free membership, 
• up to $500 for travel to the VASTA Conference,
• waiver of conference fee, 
• a $500 award.  

The deadline for nominations is February 28, 2008. See the Clyde Vinson Scholarship page for complete details on how to nominate someone for this important scholarship, funded by the VASTA Endowment.

Institutions are Invited to apply to host a Fellow

VASTA is excited about its new Fellows Program, which connects qualified VASTA representatives with institutions in need of workshops, master classes and symposia. The purpose is to provide expertise in specific areas that may not be available in a given institution.

As a part of the VASTA Vision 2014 outreach advocacy goals, VASTA seeks to raise the profile of what we do as an organization, raise standards for practice within the profession and increase public awareness of effective, healthy and creative vocal usage.

VASTA Members: Know someone who could use a VASTA Fellow? Why not forward this announcement (pdf) to your friends, and encourage your colleagues to apply!

More information and the Application

Membership Enrichment Grants (MEG)

VASTA is now offering a Membership Enrichment Grants to those VASTA members who wish to host either a regional networking meeting or voice and speech trainers workshop. The application process is simple, follow the instructions posted on the website, http://www.vasta.org/resources/meg.html, and contact the Past President, who will get back to you. VASTA can can assist you with expenses up to $500. Special consideration will be given to proposals that promote the exchange of ideas, techniques, and pedagogy to enhance our work as trainers and coaches. Applicant must be a member of VASTA for two years. Workshop participants need not be VASTA members. As a follow up, we ask that any recipient of a ROW submit a paragraph or two about your event for the VASTA Voice, the on-line news letter.

VASTA Store!

Show your pride in our organization! VASTA now has a number of apparal, accessories, and houseware with the VASTA logo. A portion of all sales go directly to VASTA and its operating costs. Check it out!!!

Voice and Speech Review

The latest issue of the VASTA's Journal, the Voice and Speech Review, Voice and Gender is available for purchase online.
Voice and Gender explores the relationship between vocal expression and gender identity and the norms associated with gendered roles.

VASTA Medical Advisor
Yolanda Heman-Ackah, M.D. has been VASTA's Voice of medical reason for the past two years. She is available via email to answer any questions about medical voice problems, anatomy & physiology, voice care. You may email Dr. Heman-Ackah at vastamd@hotmail.com. Also, you can access the VASTA MD page via the navigation at the left of every page: it's listed under Resources.

VASTA Vision Available Online
A ten-year VASTA goal-setting retreat was held in Las Vegas on November 12 and 13, 2004. A group of twenty-four current and past VASTA board members met to chart the organization's next decade. The culmination of this experience was the development of the VASTA Vision document, which is now available for your perusal . This document is available under "publications" in the navigation scheme on the left side of every page of the website. (Please note that this was a part of the VASTA Voice Newsletter published in February 2005.)

Member Contact Info Update Form Now Available
Have you moved recently? You can now update your information in the VASTA Database through our online form. Use the navigation on the left of any page to select Membership, and then clik on "Update Your Contact Info." This will take you swifty to the update form. The form sends an email to Krista Scott who will update your entry in the VASTA Database, which we use for all our contact information (like when we email the VASTA Voice). If you would like to update your Professional Index form, you will need to go to the Update form for that separately: the VASTA Database and the Professional Index are separate entities, and are not connected at all.

IPA Fonts

An update has been made to the IPA font set for Windows. It is downloadable as a single zip file and gives instructions to be set up as simply as possible for usage.

International Events New!
Prepared by Kara Tsiaparas, this resource lists events world-wide for Voice and Speech Trainers.

VASTA Bibliography
Brad Gibson, VASTA's Bibliographer maintains an online version of the VASTA Bibliography. Thanks in part to a grant from ATHE, records from the old paper version of the bibliography have been loaded into the new electronic format. The transfer from paper to the electronic format shall be completed shortly. The new, searchable resource is a far more useful version and offers full boolean searching. The bibliography is located on Librarycom.com's website. To log in, follow this link, and enter the words "vasta bibliography" (note: there is a space between "vasta" and "bibliography"). Leave all the remaining fields blank, and check the "login as guest" button; click the login button to enter the site. (Click here to see what this should look like.) Once you've logged in, there will be further instructions on the welcome page. To submit books and resources to the bibliography, please use this online form to forward the information to Brad Gibson.

Though VASTA is an independent, incorporated identity, it is also
a Focus Group of ATHE - The Association for Theatre in Higher Education

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This site is maintained by VASTA Director of Technology, Michael J. Barnes, with assistance from Chris Neher.
Original site design is by Eric Armstrong.

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