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List of Changes for the National Economic Association:

  • Add a "History/Timeline" section and include the following:
    • Creation of Caucus of Black Economists (1969 - 1975)
    • National Economic Association (1975 - present)
    • Changes to Registration Locations
  • Add a "Purpose" section and include the following:
    • Primary Purposes
    • Membership
    • By-laws
  • Add a "Projects" section and include the following:
    • Economic development of ethnic communities
    • Inter-campus research and faculty development
    • Black economists’ professional development and research
  • Add a Grants, Fellowship, and Internships section
  • Expand the "Association Presidents" section
  • Expand the "Westerfield Award Recipients" section
  • Links to be added
    • link to the NEA from the AES
    • links in pages such as “American Institute for Economic Research” and “National Association for Business Economics”
    • links to important people
    • links to any organizations the NEA interacts with


List of Sources for the Changes to be made for the National Economic Association:

  • History
    • Simms, Margarett C. “Statement of Change of Registered Office or Registered Agent or Both By A Nonprofit Corporation.” Washington, D.C.: Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs, May 30, 2001.
      • source for Registration Location
    • Osborne Jr., Alfred E. 1981. Review of Articles of Amendment to the Articles of Incorporation of the National Economic Association.
      • source for timeline of creation of the NEA
  • Purpose
    • “Bylaws of National Economic Association.” Washington, D.C.: National Economic Association, 2012.
      • source for NEA by-laws
    • Simms, Margaret, and Barbara Jones. 1979. Review of Articles of Incorporation for the National Economic Association. Washington, D.C.: Internal Revenue Service.
      • source for NEA Articles of Incorporation
  • Projects
    • Wilson, Charles Z. n.d. Review of Economic Development of Ethnic Communities: A Proposal for Research Related and Conference Activities. In , edited by Thaddeus H. Spratlen. Washington, D.C.: National Economic Association. Accessed September 23, 2020.
      • source for conferences interconnected with the NEA
    • n.d. Review of Inter-Campus Research and Faculty Development for Black Colleges and Universities. In . National Economic Association. Accessed September 23, 2020.
      • source for NEA's involvement with HBCUs.
    • Jefferson, Phillip. Letter to NEA members. 2005. Review of RE: National Economic Association. Email, January 2005.
      • source for their economic development and ethnic communities
    • Spratlen, Thaddeus H. 1970. Review of Project for Black Economists’ Professional Development and Research, November.
      • source for specific project developing black economists and their research
    • Grants, Fellowships, & Internships


Potential Difficulties when working with the National Economic Association:

The article that we are working on is about an association that is not the most well known so we are required to use a lot of the sources that are provided by the association itself rather than collecting information from other scholarly sources. This can be a decent amount of work because we have to extract and organize our information from a lot of bits and pieces. Referencing the material can also be a little difficult because they are obscure primary resources, and may be tough for other Wikipedians to find and verify the truth in our statements. Trying to paint a larger picture of the NEA is a difficult task but that is what we are aiming to do to make their organization more visible and be known for the great work that it does. We also will have to collaborate with the editor of the article to make sure they are fine with the changes we make and try to avoid the creep of bias in our writing.