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Abila will hold a webinar on “Next Generation Credentialing” at 2 p.m. ET March 17 featuring Greg Melia, CAE, ASAE chief member relations and strategy development officer, and Tracy Petrillo, EdD, CAE, chief learning officer, EDUCAUSE. Register here.
Event Service Professionals Association (ESPA) has named its top convention service managers for the year: hotel – Richie D. Acosta, Walt Disney World’s Yacht & Beach Club Resorts; CVB – Ethelene Hardy-Stover, Greenville-Pitt County (N.C.) CVB; Convention Center – Jamie Huckleberry, David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh. For a complete list of awardees, click here.
Jerome P. Grisko Jr., from COO to CEO, CBIZ, following the retirement of Steven L. Gerard. Gerard, will continue to serve as board chairman.
Brooklyn Bar Association, American Association of University Professors, Association of Fundraising Professionals, American Bar Association, National Music Publishers' Association, Cardinal Newman Society, National Rifle Association, Virginia Society of Association Executives, American Association of Occupational Health Nurses, SmithBucklin, Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association, Senior Executives Association, New Hampshire Public Radio, Federation of the Phonographic Industry, SoundExchange, Rifle and Pistol Association. Diana Aviv and more, including Supplier News
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Latest recipients of the Certificate in Meetings Management include Virginia Williams Fountain, North Carolina Association of Electric Cooperatives; Jessica M. Lamb, Young Presidents' Organization; and Jessie States, Meeting Professionals International. The CMM is supported by MPI and Global Business Travel Association. For a complete list, click here.
Diana Aviv, CEO of Feeding America since October and former CEO of Independent Sector, will serve as Distinguished Visiting Practitioner and Visiting Fellow at the Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy through mid-2018. Aviv served for 12 years at the helm of Independent Sector, and was executive director of the Panel on the Nonprofit Sector, which prepared recommendations on nonprofit governance, ethics and accountability for Congress.
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A nonlawyer who offered his services as an immigration attorney and met with clients in the Brooklyn Bar Association’s law library, which he called his office, has been sentenced to a two-to-four year prison term, ABA Journal reports. The 70-year-old man pleaded guilty last month to grand larceny and immigrant services fraud in the Brooklyn Supreme Court case, becoming the first person to be convicted of the felony under a new state law.
A day after the American Association of University Professors said it will send three members to the University of Missouri, Columbia, to investigate the process leading to Melissa Click’s firing, the former Mizzou media professor said she will fight her dismissal. Click says she is being scapegoated by the university, "to distract fro larger campus issues." AAUP will investigate whether the university violated her right to due process and “whether conditions for academic freedom and tenure at the institution are sound.” Click was famously caught on video asking for "muscle" to remove a student journalist from a protest area. She apologized and resigned a position with the school's journalism department but remained a media professor at the campus.
Association of Fundraising Professionals applauded presidential candidate Hilary Clinton’s plan to exempt the charitable deduction from a 28 percent deduction limit on the highest tax brackets, 33 percent and above. AFP CEO Andrew Watt, FInstF, said: "Hillary Clinton’s tax plan recognizes the unique value of the charitable deduction by expressly exempting the deduction that would cap itemized deductions at 28 percent for certain families and individuals….A calculation of the charitable deduction indicates that for every tax dollar invested through the deduction through American philanthropy, nonprofits and the people they serve receive approximately $2.50 in charitable services in local communities."
Former student Anna Alaburda is suing the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, alleging the school inflated the number of its students who found jobs nine months after graduating. In allowing the suit to proceed, a rarity for such a suit, a California Superior Court judge found that employment figures that include "any and all" jobs, and not just those that are legal-related, are "meaningless in the context of a legal education." The school contends it reported postgraduate employment correctly - by the method required by the magazine U.S. News and the American Bar Association. Law school rankings are partly dependent on the nine-month employment statistic.
Billboard magazine reports that the National Music Publishers' Association's settlement with Spotify will include the streaming service paying $5 million in damages on top of the $16 million to $25 million that the service owes music publishers and songwriters. (A source tells Billboard that the deal has yet to be signed.) Now publishers and songwriters that own their publishing will have to decide between opting in to the settlement or joining one of the class-action lawsuits filed against the service. Spotify declined comment to Billboard, and the NMPA did not respond at press time.
Cardinal Newman Society has started an online petition to stop Planned Parenthood chief Cecile Richards from appearing at an event at Georgetown University, the country's oldest Catholic university. CNS says it is against the university "allowing a person responsible for the deaths of over 2.8 million babies to have free reign in spouting anti-Catholic, anti-life propaganda on Georgetown’s campus." The student-run Lecture Fund invited Richards to speak on campus in April. Georgetown’s administration defended the invitation, citing the “free exchange of ideas.”
National Rifle Association praised presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders response to a question in a debate this week that asked him to defend his position against holding gun manufacturers responsible for crimes committed with their products. Sanders believes individuals should be held accountable for how they use the guns they purchase. According to the presidential hopeful, the gun manufacturer should be liable only if they knowingly sell a firearm to a criminal. NRA tweeted its support of Sanders' statements, but the senator was quick to point out that he gets a D-listing from NRA.
Deadline is June 10 to nominate for International Association of Exhibitions and Events' annual awards program to recognize exceptional professionals in the exhibitions and events industry. Recipients will be honored at IAEE’s annual meeting, Dec. 6-8 in Anaheim, Calif. Details, click here.
Virginia Society of Association Executives April monthly luncheon and seminar will be on “Find Your Fan Factor: 10 Slam Dunk Secrets to Pack the House at Your Next Event,” 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. April 1 at the Richmond Marriott Short Pump. The luncheon presentation will be on “#NoFilter: 3 Communication Secrets to Build High-Trust Relationships With Your Fans.” Details, www.vsae.org.
American Association of Occupational Health Nurses has selected SmithBucklin for full-service management. The organization's headquarters will move from Pensacola, Fla., to Chicago, effective July 1.
Healthcare Convention & Exhibitors Association rebranded its annual conference the HCEAConnect, this year Aug. 14-17 in Savannah, Ga. Details, click here.
Senior Executives Association is soliciting feedback from the Veterans Affairs Department’s senior executives about a proposal to move its roughly 350 career senior executives from Title 5 to Title 38. Moving the SES corps into Title 38 will give VA Secretary Bob McDonald and his top deputies more authority to expedite hiring and offer higher pay. But if senior executives are taken out of Title 5 and moved into Title 38, they would lose their rights to appeal disciplinary actions against them, such as removal, to the independent Merit Systems Protection Board. Instead, their appeals would be handled internally at the VA. So far, “we’re not really seeing a lot of folks interested in what’s being offered here,” SEA interim executive director Jason Briefel said. SEA will release the finding of its survey next week.
New Hampshire Public Radio reports that Jerry Little's 22 years as president of the New Hampshire Banking Association might actually hurt his chance to become the state's new banking commissioner. His experience as the head of NHBA has spurred an online petition demanding he withdraw his name. And at least two Democrats who sit on the council that approves the gubernatorial nomination have questioned his ability to regulate an industry that he once lobbied for as NHBA president. His supporters point to a homeowners law Little helped to get passed that was opposed by NHBA. Little acknowledged to NHPR the concerns about his background, but says he’s prepared to address questions about any potential conflict of interest.
London-based International Federation of the Phonographic Industry and D.C.-based SoundExchange have created a new platform, the ISRC Search Site, to provide access to the largest database of identifiers of sound recordings. IFPI globally manages the ISRC identification system - the standard code number allocated to every single sound recording - under an appointment from the International Organization for Standardization, and has selected SoundExchange to power the global repertoire database on ISRC identifiers. For the first time, ISRC codes - supplied directly from record companies across the globe - will be publicly accessible and searchable. Details, click here.
Rifle and Pistol Association. of New York state, halted its lawsuit to strike down Gov. Cuomo's 2013 gun control law because of the recent death of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia. Th association decided against filing a petition asking the Supreme Court to hear the case fearing the conservative Scalia’s death will make winning the case virtually impossible. "It's just the wrong time," said RPA president and NRA member Tom King said.