Part One: Academic Leadership Council Meeting, October 2017

This is Part One of a multi-part report about the Academic Leadership Council meeting that was held in Dallas Texas on Thursday October 26, 2017.+++Yesterday I participated in the Academic Leadership Council meeting in Dallas. I have not participated in this meeting previously, except for perhaps a presentation I assisted with for NBCOT some years ago. It was definitely my first participation associated with being in a program director role.One of my persistent concerns about these meetings is that they are not generally open for public scrutiny, and there is little reporting to everyday practitioners out of these meetings. In bygone days some OT-oriented periodicals might ' cover ' some events but that generally doesn ' t happen any longer. As a result, important information that is disseminated and discussed is only known by a privileged few. That is problematic in my opinion because I have a longstanding opinion that many occupational therapists are separated from the decision making process. The reasons for this separation are complex; my objective in sharing information is to help promote engagement.In a conversation on Twitter one person commented to me that AOTA/ACOTE should livestream these meetings. I don ' t think they would do that because there is little reason for them to charge money to attend if people can just watch on the Internet. However, a part of this meeting was theoretically " open " to the public: the ACOTE prese...
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