Criteria for this position (see Standing Rule 8: Nominations and Elections) include the following:
Candidates for FFAL Trustee are expected to have undertaken some prior service to AAAL and/or the field and its constituencies. Candidates for FFAL Trustee should ideally have experience with budgeting, investments or fundraising. The term for FFAL Trustee is 3 years (Year 1: Associate Chair; Year 2: Chair; Year 3: Past Chair). Candidates should be willing to commit to attend the AAAL conference for at least the year they are FFAL Trustee Chair, and ideally for the three years of service (at their expense). Trustees might, but are not are not required to, be prior donors to FFAL.
About the Fund for the Future of Applied Linguistics Board of Trustees
The Fund for the Future of Applied Linguistics (FFAL) was established in 2000 as an endowment fund for the purpose of funding approximately six to eight Graduate Student Awards designed to offset the costs of traveling to and presenting at the annual conference for students whose conference proposals are accepted and deemed of the highest quality during the blind review process.
The FFAL Board monitors the status of investments, donations, and economic trends that may affect future endowment returns and submits yearly recommendations to the Executive Committee regarding the number of travel awards and the specific dollar amounts that will be made available to the Graduate Student Award Committee.