ARC: Community: SIGs: Activities
Academic SIGs provide opportunities for continuous interaction among colleagues. They facilitate opportunities for networking, sharing ideas, discussing problems and keeping up with new findings from the literature, and new techniques for the classroom. In summary, they provide members with unique opportunities for professional advancement and for contributing to the field.
Some SIGs have special meetings or conferences, some produce directories, proceedings and newsletters. Others have organized discussions on the Internet, listservs and conference calls. There are SIG sponsored doctoral consortia, and awards. Many of the SIGs have extensive Web sites with large archives of teaching and research material germane to the organizing topic of the SIG. Even SIGs that do not have their own conferences frequently sponsor special sessions and roundtable discussions at the AMA Winter and Summer Educators' conferences. These groups also organize social events at the conferences.