The festive season is upon us – already! And we are planning the next few Board
meetings, including our face-to-face meeting in February. One agenda item for this
meeting is to discuss what the Board will be doing at the Forum this year. We will
be sharing with all members an annual report on the Association and its activities
and fiscal health. If you have any ideas about how we might best do that, besides
a very early morning meeting, please get in touch with me with those ideas.
We also plan to use the opportunity to talk to those of you able to attend the Forum
in New Orleans, June 2-June 6 2012. What are the best ways we can do that from your
perspective? And for those unable to attend the Forum, what else would work for
you?
Last month we raised some questions about why you belong to AIR and what benefits
you find most useful, and/or engaging? These are ongoing questions for the Board.
We also want to hear from you about the future of the profession of IR. What do
you think you will be doing five years from now? What will the current focus on
quality educational data that links K-20 information mean for us in the future?
How might the focus from such sources as the Data Quality Campaign on the dissemination
and use of such education data help us in our work?
These questions and activities, the continuing development of our Board policies,
the nomination and election activities, the work of the committee to review the
Association Awards, and the work of the committee taking a look at the Code of Ethics,
are keeping us engaged.
The Board is also grateful for all the work so many of you are doing with the AIR
office to review proposals for the New Orleans Forum and to look ahead in Forum
Planning.
We all wish you a great time over the holidays as our campuses get a bit quieter
for a while. And during your respite, please feel free to contact us with answers
to any of the questions posed above by visiting the AIR web site’s Board of Directors
page where you will find our email addresses.
Jennifer Brown
AIR President