Announcing Fellowships for National Resource Center Institute on First-Year Assessment
AIR Office (air@airweb.org)

Each year, the http://www.sc.edu/fye/National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina, in association with AIR, awards up to five fellowships for the National Resource Center's Institute on First-Year Assessment. The fellowship pays for a participant's conference registration fee, excluding travel and lodging expenses.

The National Resource Center's Institute on First-Year Assessment is designed to provide faculty, first-year program directors, student affairs professionals, institutional researchers, and/or assessment practitioners in the field of first-year assessment with the tools to improve higher education through assessment.

Congratulations to the 2009 Fellowship winners who will attend the conference October 10-12, in Charlotte, North Carolina:

• Beth M. Lingren Clark, Director of Orientation & First-Year Programs
  University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
  
• Liz F. Fitzgerald, Director of First Year Programs and Student Support
  University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  
• Jon William Laird, Coordinator, University Assessment Office
  Illinois State University
  
• Erika Rose Thompson, Director of Institutional Research
  Lipscomb University
  
• Kriesta Watson, Director of Institutional Research
  Shenandoah University

AIR applauds the National Resource Center for engaging institutional researchers and educational practitioners in improving the success and learning of first-year students.

For more information about the National Resource Center's Institute on First-Year Assessment, visit http://www.sc.edu/fye/events/assessment/.