AIR Member Recollection Survey Reminder – Please Participate!

The AIR Board has endorsed a project to compile our association’s 50-year history before it is irretrievably lost. During the coming year, we will collect data from multiple sources about AIR activities, governance and policy decisions, and member recollections to produce a Gestalt of AIR history. Our goal is to digitize this history and produce an analysis of findings for presentation to AIR at the 2010 anniversary Forum in Chicago next May.

Obviously, an undertaking of this magnitude can only succeed with the support of all of AIR’s members. Each contribution you provide to the construction of this history will be part of a legacy we members offer back to our Association. Therefore, whether you joined AIR just this year or in its earliest days, we are asking you to take a few minutes to share your knowledge.

We have designed an AIR Member Recollection Survey, hoping to hear about your memories—both the highlights of your tenure as an IR professional and as a member of the Association for Institutional Research. We would appreciate your completing this survey as candidly and completely as your time allows. Since the survey may take a little while to complete, it is designed to allow you to stop and start without losing your data. Please take a few minutes of your time to complete this survey: http://www.survey.nasfaa.org/se.ashx?s=0D4B47FE58FC520D

We would also appreciate your sharing the survey URL with as many colleagues as you know, including those who might have retired or those who do not receive e-AIR. Thank you for helping us compile our Association’s history.

Sincerely yours,

Gary Rice
Associate Vice Provost, IR
University of Alaska Anchorage
angar@uaa.alaska.edu

Dawn Geronimo Terkla
Associate Provost, Institutional Research, Assessment & Evaluation
Tufts University

Margaret (Peggye) Cohen
Assistant Vice President for Institutional Research Emerita
George Washington University

Meihua Zhai
Director of Research & Analysis
National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators