American Taxation Association

Charges
1.         Ensure that membership information is available for display and distribution at the AAA Annual Meeting and Regional Meetings. Coordinate this activity with the AAA Annual Program Committee and the Regional Programs Committee. The Regional Programs Committee will distribute brochures at the Regional Meetings.
2.         Identify through the AAA, ATA members whose memberships have lapsed and invite them to rejoin the ATA.
3.         Contact last year’s membership chair for a document of the procedures that the Membership Committee performs annually so that it may be updated and passed on to successive Membership Committees.
4.         Work with the New Faculty Concerns Committee to target prospective members of the ATA.
5.         Use the Ph.D. Directors database that is on the ATA website and contact the directors for the names of tax doctoral students. Coordinate with Doctoral consortium committee to obtain names of doctoral students that you might not have received from the Ph.D. directors.
6.         Consider ways to increase both academic and practitioner interest in joining the ATA.
7.         Consider whether an increase in the public persona of the ATA would increase the membership of the ATA and what types of activities this committee thinks would help increase that persona.