An Invitation to Join ARC's Speakers Bureau
As part of its mandate “to facilitate and encourage retirees’ involvement and contribution to the larger community beyond the University,” the Academic Retiree Centre is forming a Speakers Bureau to commence service in the fall of 2010. The Bureau will list retired faculty, librarians and senior administrators who are willing to give talks or lead discussions and the subjects on which they have expertise. The list will be sent to schools, seniors’ homes, service clubs and other organizations in the GTA community.When ARC receives requests for speakers, the ARC Administrator will contact the person requested or an appropriate member of the Bureau, if the request indicates a topic but not a speaker. Members of the Bureau who are invited to speak will decide whether they wish to accept the invitation. The Bureau’s policy will be not to charge a speaker’s fee. However, Bureau speakers may accept any honoraria that are offered and contributions to their travel expenses.
If you are willing to be a member of the ARC Speakers Bureau, please reply to academic.retiree@utoronto.ca indicating
1) Your name and phone number(s)
2) A brief description of your fields of interest, indicating some of the topics on which you are willing to speak
3) Any restrictions on your availability – such as days of the week, times during the year
We hope that you will be willing to contribute to this program of sharing the wealth of knowledge and experience in our retiree community at the University of Toronto with the larger community in which we live. We look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Peter H. Russell,
Principal, Senior College and co-Chair, ARC Board of Management
and
Jack Stevenson,
President, RALUT and Member, ARC Board of Management