The National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina, in association with the Association of Institutional Research, is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the AIR Fellowships. These individuals are knowledgeable about, and interested in, the first year of college and have presented plans to use information gained at the Institute to improve current first-year assessment on their campuses. This year’s recipients were formally recognized on October 10, 2009 at the Institute on First-Year Assessment.

Pictured from left to right:

Kriesta Watson, Shenandoah University
Erika Rose Thompson, Lipscomb University
Jon William Laird, Illinois State University
Liz Fitzgerald, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jennifer R. Keup, National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
Beth M. Lingren Clark, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (not pictured)