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Welcome to the NACAS West Website!

 

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NACAS-West Presidential Welcome


Thank you for providing me the honor to serve as your regional president.  I’m looking forward to serving the West membership as well as working with the new slate of NACAS-West Board officers.  I believe I will be the first president in quite some time to have the pleasure of working with a full Board.  I hope to soon fill our newly created Secretary position.  I will also be working to fill the Area I Director position that Neil Markley of Sonoma State University recently vacated to become NACAS-West President-Elect. 


I am pleased that I have inherited the Board leadership position of an association that is doing well financially.  One of my goals is for it to continue to stays healthy.  Another one of my major goals will be to work on retaining current membership levels, as well as recruiting new Western members into NACAS.  Increasing attendance at the regional conference will also be of utmost importance and I want to focus on finding ways of increasing our Business Partner involvement in the educational component of what we do.  I also want to do more to attract young professionals into this association.  Many of us in the auxiliary services profession tend to be an aging group of folks and I want the young professionals in the field to begin filling some of our vacant leadership positions.  There are plenty of opportunities to serve on regional and national task forces.  In order to do this, we have to do more to make sure that our younger members feel welcome here and find value in our educational and developmental programs.  We will need to do more outreach to them as well as seek out their interests.  Involving more students in our association is also something I want the board to tackle this year.  Our year will be challenging, but I feel we have the right people at the leadership table to get the job done well.

 

Two important things I’d like to highlight are our next regional conference and our NACAS-West Conference Scholarship.   Our 2011 regional conference will take place in Vancouver, BC, Canada, from June 5 through 7, 2011.  I really hope you take advantage of the wonderful educational opportunities the conference will offer in the beautiful setting of Vancouver, British Colombia.  Also, I want to encourage you to apply for the NACAS-West Conference Scholarship which can help defray the cost of the conference.  Please be on the look out for details and deadlines regarding both the regional conference and the scholarships process.

 

Another thing to note is that NACAS West is on Facebook.  I encourage you to join the NACAS-West Facebook group.  In addition to Facebook, the NACAS Community website is a place for you to keep up with what is happening within our association in general.  Lastly, I encourage you to read the NACAS-West Newsletter found on the NACAS-West website to stay informed of what is taking place in our region.  All of this is provided for you so that you can continue making the Connections That Count.

 

Again, I thank you for this great opportunity, and I plan to stay in regular contact with the membership.

 

Carlos García
President of NACAS-West
Director of the University Memorial Center
University of Colorado at Boulder