Through a collaborative effort, the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition and the Association for Institutional Research will award up to 5 fellowships for the National Conference on First-Year Assessment. The fellowships pay the participant conference registration fee, but not travel or lodging expenses.
Who Should Submit an Application?
The AIR/First-Year Assessment Conference Fellowship Program is open to all higher education professionals involved with first-year program assessment: first-year program administrators, institutional researchers, assessment coordinators, faculty, student affairs professionals, self-study coordinators, accreditation staff, or academic and student affairs coordinators with first-year assessment responsibilities. If more than one applicant from the same institution submit a proposal, only one applicant is eligible to receive a fellowship.
Veteran and newly appointed institutional research and assessment professionals, as well as graduate students who anticipate employment in an assessment-related field, are also encouraged to apply. While applications are accepted from higher education professionals, current AIR members or members of an AIR affiliated group are strongly encouraged to apply.
Deadline for Submitting Applications
The deadline for submitting an application is September 1, 2008. Fellowship awards for the conference will be announced in mid September.
Instructions for Application Submission
Applications may be submitted via mail, fax (803-777-9358), or electronically as an E-mail attachment in Word or Word Perfect format to Shana Harrison at scharri2@mailbox..sc.edu. On the subject line of your E-mail attachment please type: AIR/First-Year Assessment Conference Fellowship Program.
Mail applications to:
National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition
Attention: Shana Harrison
University of South Carolina
1728 College Street
Columbia, SC 29208
For more information, please contact Shana Harrison at (803)576-6328.
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The application should present a brief overview of the applicant's experience in higher education assessment, how this experience could be enhanced by attending the conference, and how participation in the conference could lead to improvements in future assessment endeavors. If you are a newly appointed assessment professional, or a graduate student anticipating working in assessment, please indicate how participation in the conference could benefit your current and/or future work in assessment.
AIR Application Review Process
All applications will be reviewed by a review panel for compliance with guidelines. Applications are then assigned for review by an advisory panel composed of experts on assessment-related issues in higher education. Recommendations for fellowship awards will be made by the panel, and approved by AIR. Fellowship awards for the National Conference will be announced in late September.
APPENDIX A
APPLICATION FOR AIR/FIRST-YEAR ASSESSMENT
CONFERENCE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM
October 12-14, 2008
San Antonio, Texas
NOTE: A complete application will include Section A (Background Information), Section B (Questions), and Section C (Letter of Support).
Section B. QUESTIONS ON FIRST-YEAR ASSESSMENT Please address the following questions in a maximum of three (3) pages. Proposals that do not address the following questions or exceed the 3 page limit will not be considered by AIR.
- How does your current (or future) work relate to assessment of the first year of college?
- In what ways do you hope to benefit from participation in the National Conference on First-Year Assessment?
- In what way do you hope your current institution (or the institution in which you anticipate working) will benefit from your participation in the National Conference on First-Year Assessment?
- How would you describe your level of expertise and background in assessment of the first year of college?
- What one assessment issue do you hope to learn about at the National Conference on First-Year Assessment?
SECTION C. LETTER OF SUPPORT As an attachment/enclosure, please submit a Letter of Support from an appropriate official at your institution (i.e. president, vice president, provost, division chair, dean, department chair, program director, provost, etc.) who will support and encourage your attendance at the National Conference on First-Year Assessment. (Please submit one letter only.)
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