Important information for JALTCALL members concerning election for president of JALTCALL
The SIG is currently holding an election for the position of SIG President for the 2025-26 term.
All JALTCALL members are eligible to vote by email. If you received an email, congratulations, you get to vote! Please make sure it is not in your SPAM folder. If you are a member and have not received an email, please contact Jennie Roloff Rothman.
Statements from each of the candidates are below:
Candidate 1: Brian Gallagher
Dear JALTCALLSIG Members, I know that your time is precious and so is your opinion, so I shall keep my statement short. My name is Brian Gallagher, and my record with JALTCALL is long and productive:
11 years JALTCALL Member and contributor (since 2014)
JALTCALL Conference site chair twice. 2018 & 2024
JALTCALL PanSIG Liaison 7 times 2016/2017/2018/2022/2023/2024/2025 (+2017 Journal Editor)
JALTCALL Podcast Producer & Team member since 2024 (14 episodes so far)
JALTCALL Conference Treasurer twice 2016/2017
As a triple-postgraduate in Education (specialising in Online and Distance Education) I feel that I am qualified to represent the SIG and our members and to talk to other academics and teachers in the field. As a professional teacher licenced to teach Biology in secondary education, and as a science graduate (Physiology and Sports Science), I hope that I can represent you well and understand your situations as varied as they may be.
I trust you may know me well enough and how I get things done. So, I ask kindly for you to entrust me with your vote and your confidence that I shall strive to hear your opinions and to try to bring to fruition your ideas and preferences as to how we shape not only our conference but our professional offerings to you including our publications (JALTCALL Journal, JALTCALL Trends, JALTCALL Podcasts, and our Forums and Symposiums).
Candidate 2: Robert Swier
Dear friends, over the past two years, it has been my honor to serve as President of JALTCALL. In that time, I’ve worked tirelessly to strengthen our organization by deepening our ties to the greater JALT community and improving our professional partnerships with CALL organizations around the world. Together, we’ve made real progress. Since returning to in-person events in 2023, our annual conference has grown each year, and our 2025 conference last weekend was one of the largest and most international in our history. We’ve started new programs, launched a new journal, and strengthened our leadership team. But our work isn’t finished. With your support, I’m ready to keep moving forward. Let’s continue this journey together.
How to cast your vote:
- Reply to to the email sent to you.
- Write the name of your candidate of choice at the top of the email message.
- Hit send. The email will only be sent to sigrep@jalt.org.
Please cast your vote no later than 12pm on Sunday, July 27, 2025.
Ballots will be counted by election monitors Jennie Roloff Rothman, JALT SIG Representative Liaison and Sammy Woldeab JALTCALL Membership Chair. Election results and ballot information will remain confidential and only be shared between the election monitors.
The results will be announced in the JALTCALL AGM that will reconvene at 1pm on July 27th on Zoom at this election link.
JALTCALL AGM Zoom Link
Thank you for your participation.
Sincerely,
Jennie Roloff Rothman
JALT SIG Representative Liaison
JALTCALL 2025 Election Monitor
2025 JALTCALL annual General meeting (AGM)
This year, the AGM will be held from 1:00 PM on Sunday, July 20 at the conference venue. Attendance at the AGM is free for everyone, and does not require participation in the conference or even being a JALT member. However, only current members of JALTCALL will be permitted to cast votes. The meeting will also allow online participation via Zoom:
Sunday, July 20, 2025. 1:00 PM (exact room location to be announced soon)
2025 JALTCALL AGM Agenda
Item 1. Call to Order
Item 2. Determination of Voting Eligibility
Item 3. Reports of Officers
*Program Chair’s Report
*Membership Chair’s Report
*Publicity Chair’s Report
*Publication Chair’s Report
*Treasurer’s Report
*President’s Report
Item 4. New Business
* Amendments to the JALTCALL Constitution
* Member Q&A (Open Forum)
Item 5. Announcements
Item 6. Elections
* Call for Nominations
* Voting and Results Announcement
Item 7. Adjournment
The AGM will include nominations and elections for the six “core officers” of JALTCALL.
The current nominations are as follows as of June 28th:
- President: Robert Swier (Incumbent, seeking 3rd term) & Brian Gallagher (Seeking 1st term)
- Treasurer: Michael Phillips (Incumbent, seeking 4th term)
- Membership Chair: Kevin Wrobetz (Seeking 1st term)
- Sammy Woldeab (incumbent) will step down after two successful terms.
- Program Chair: Geoff Carr (Incumbent, seeking 2nd term)
- Publications Chair: Michael Hofmeyr (Incumbent, seeking 2nd term)
- Publicity Chair: Bradley Irwin (Incumbent, seeking 5th term)
All positions above are self-nominated. Additionally, any current JALTCALL member may nominate themselves or any other CALL member for any of the above positions. Nominations will be open until the start of the election at the AGM. If you would like to nominate yourself or another person, please get in touch with Robert Swier (president@jaltcall.org) or contact any of the other core officers. Please note that if you nominate someone other than yourself, you may need to provide contact information so that we can confirm that the named individual will accept the nomination.