Honoraria for PAEA Meeting Presentations Will Be Discontinued

Charles Brakhage
Chair, Finance Committee

The Association has decided to discontinue the practice of paying honoraria to PAEA members who present educational sessions at its fall Annual Education Forum and during the PAEA educational sessions at the AAPA’s annual conference in May. This will take effect beginning with the 2007 Education Forum in October.

The Finance Committee made this recommendation after considering the issue at length during its spring meeting, and the board approved the recommendation. The committee’s reasons were threefold:

1. Faculty members make presentations and submit scholarly work primarily to further their own careers and build their portfolios for promotion and tenure.
2. Most comparable organizations that the Association uses to benchmark its practices do not pay honoraria for meeting presentations.
3. The individual honoraria were fairly minimal but collectively the money can be put to use providing additional services that will benefit all members.

The committee hopes that this decision will not affect the number of proposals submitted for this year’s Education Forum. As you should have been notified by now, the call for proposals has been posted — you have until June 22 to submit.

This decision does not affect the fees paid to faculty of the longer one- and two-day add-on workshops presented by the Faculty Development and Research Institutes. These workshops require a significant investment of preparation and teaching time, and faculty will continue to be compensated for them.