This is the last call for Contributed Papers at the SRA Annual Meeting in
Philadelphia on October 17-21, 1998.  The response has been excellent, a few
more papers and it will be outstanding.  A few time slots still remain for
the
Contributed Papers Session.  Consider joining over 20 other research
administrators as they present their thoughts at this Contributed Paper
Session.  Please follow the instructions that follow:

You !!  are invited to join your colleagues in presenting your initiatives,
research, successes, failures, and ideas at the 1998 SRA Contributed Paper
Session.  This session will be held at the SRA Annual Meeting in
Philadelphia, PA on October 17 - 21, 1998.  The Program Committee invites
you, as an important part of the professional society, to prepare a paper on
ERA, office procedures, faculty workshops, policies to facilitate faculty
research, and a thousand other topics involving the wonderful field of
research administration.  The Contributed Paper Session will showcase your
initiatives in a 15 minute presentation followed by discussion with your
audience.  Your paper will be part of a published Proceedings, distributed
at your session.  Selected papers may be published in the SRA Journal.
Selected papers will be specially recognized at the Annual Meeting.

Your paper may be a presentation on any research administration related
topic, which makes for endless possibilities.  Sign up now and start
writing.  You are invited !!

For more information on the 1998 SRA Contributed Paper Session,  please
contact John McKee at xxxxxx@engr.psu.edu.  To register your contributed
paper please return the below information to John McKee at
xxxxxx@engr.psu.edu.
_____________________________________________________________

Name: _____________________________________
Email:  _____________________________________

Tentative Title of Contributed Paper: __________________________________

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity"
________________________________________________
John R. Mc Kee - Coord, Research and Administrative Services
Office of the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research
College of Engineering/Penn State
101 Hammond Building; University Park, PA 16802
email: xxxxxx@engr.psu.edu
phone: (814) 865-1804; fax: (814) 863-0497