Membership

• Initiates proposals to expand and retain membership within TAA.
• Develops plans for membership growth and outlines methods for implementation.

Publisher Relations

• Maintains contact with publishers in order to strengthen communications between TAA and publisher organizations.
• Works on establishing positive relationships between TAA and publishers and outlines methods for implementing positive TAA-publisher relations.

Ethics

• Maintains and publicizes TAA's Code of Ethics.
• Examines and alerts membership to issues of ethics within the publishing industry.
• Monitors ethical conduct in publishing, including the educational environment wherein writers create intellectual property.

Diversity

• Purpose: To diversify the membership of TAA and to expand the range of viewpoints represented in the writing of textbooks and academic papers.

Author Relations

• Develops and maintains services provided by TAA to authors.
• Aids and assists authors in meeting their needs as authors.
• Creates experience files for authors with special emphasis on contracts and model contract language.
• Develops strategies for dealing with the used book problem.

Convention

• Develops the program for TAA's annual convention in conjunction with the program chair.
• Recruits and nominates to the TAA President the selection of the program chair for the annual convention.
• Recommends site locations for the annual convention.

Chair: Chris Harris