Other Events

AIR welcomes event announcements for conferences, meetings, institutes, symposiums, and other events of interest to the IR, IE, and assessment community. Send your announcements to eAIR@airweb.org include the date and location of the event, a link to the event website, and a contact name and email address (event announcements should be less than 75 words) .
 
Affiliated Organization Events
 
World Research Festival, Philippines Association for Institutional Research (PAIR)
August 22-25, 2012

The conference will be held in in Cebu City, Philippines. Please see the website for more information.

 
 
Canadian Institutional Research and Planning Association (CIRPA) 21st Annual Conference 
Call for proposals: deadline May 31, 2012, Registration opens: July 15 (early-bird deadline September 1), Conference: October 21-23, 2012

CIRPA convenes annually as a community of professionals dedicated to institutional research and planning in the postsecondary education sector. The 2012 conference will be held in Montréal, Québec, and is themed "Assessment and Accountability: Back to the Future." For more on the conference or proposal submission, contact CIRPA President Cameron Tilson. The website will open soon.

 
 
The 2012 SEAAIR Conference
November 6-8, 2012

This conference will be held in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia. Contact Hamzah Md. Omar for questions about the conference.

 
 
Other Events of Interest
 
The Association for the Assessment of Learning in Higher Education (AALHE) 2nd Annual Conference
June 3-5, 2012

The conference will be held at the Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town, in Albuquerque, N.M. Details can be found at the AALHE website.

 
 
2012 Summer Evaluation Institute
June 3-6, 2012

Sponsored by the American Evaluation Association and the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, this institute is for evaluators, applied researchers, grantmakers, foundation program officers, nonprofit administrators, and social science students. The institute will be held in Atlanta, Ga. Sessions are filled on a first-come, first-served basis. For more information, visit the institute website.

 
 
ACPA Student Affairs Assessment Institute
June 13 - 15, 2012

The ACPA Student Affairs Assessment Institute, to be held at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., is a curriculum-based learning experience designed to ensure attendees leave with the assessment skills and knowledge necessary to begin crafting quality assessment programs on their home campuses. The Institute schedule reflects this curriculum-based philosophy on assessment education: Sessions build off one another and attendees learn assessment techniques within the context of actual assessment questions and issues that can be generalized to their home institutions.  Additional information can be found at the ACPA Institute website.

 
 
 
The Higher Education Research Institute’s (HERI) CIRP Summer Institute
June 27-29, 2012

At the CSI, you’ll learn how to get the most out of your data with in-depth training on the conceptual framework of the CIRP surveys and guidance on how to interpret, analyze, and use your institution’s data on campus.

 
The Higher Education Research Institute’s (HERI) Diversity Research Institute
July 10-11, 2012

The DRI will give you the tools to assess campus diversity and its impact on student outcomes. Led by Dr. Sylvia Hurtado, the Institute provides you with new strategies on how to put your institution on a path toward supporting and enhancing diversity and civic engagement initiatives on campus.

 
The Higher Education Research Institute’s (HERI) Retention and Persistence Institute
July 25-26, 2012

The RPI covers the latest retention research, campus practices that promote student graduation and success and how to use our new graduation rate calculator to predict your institution’s expected graduation rate.

Register for any of the three institutes at the website.

 
 
The 5th Annual Institute on Best Practices in Institutional Effectiveness
July 15-18, 2012

The institute will be held at the Double Tree Hotel (Historic District) in Charleston, SC. This institute is for those working, or planning to work, in institutional effectiveness or who play an important IE role at their institution. Participants will take home an indexed notebook of tools, strategies, templates, and plans to use at their institution. Visit the website for more information or contact Terri Manning or call 704-330-6592.

 
 
The 2012 Assessment in the Arts Conference, Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design
July 20-22, 2012

This conference will be held in Denver, Colo. For more information, please visit the conference website or contact Allison Ostrowski.

 
 
The 26th Annual Conference of the American Evaluation Association
October 22-28, 2012

This conference will be held in Minneapolis, Minn. Visit the conference website for more information or contact Gwen Newman, Associate Director.

 
 
IUPUI 2012 Assessment Institute
October 28 - 30, 2012

This conference will be held in Indianapolis, Ind. For more information, please visit the conference website or contact Trudy Banta or call (317) 274-4111.

 
 
Interdisciplinary Conference on Race, Monmouth University
November 8-10, 2012

Visit the conference website for more information or contact Hettie Williams, Lecturer, African American History, Monmouth University.  

 

International Higher Education Teaching and Learning (HETL) Association Conference
January 13-15, 2013

The HETL conference will be held in Orlando, Fla., in cooperation with the Karen L. Smith Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Central Florida. The theme of the conference, Exploring Spaces for Learning, will accommodate a wide range of faculty development concerns, including engagement with students in informal learning sites, virtual learning spaces, global classrooms, and sites for experiential learning. For additional conference information, including call for proposal details, visit the HETL conference website.