Thank You

eAIR Editor: Thank you to Gayle Fink for serving as eAIR Editor for the past 18 months. Gayle served as Associate Editor with Marne Einarson, Editor, from 2007 to 2010. Gayle then became Editor of eAIR in June of 2010. Throughout her term, she produced many Tech Tips and other features, accomplishing all tasks on time and with a high degree of quality. Gayle helped produce two volumes and 19 issues as eAIR Editor, contributing to the professional development of hundreds of institutional researchers. In the immediate future, Gayle will continue as Tech Tips Feature Editor.

IR In The Know Contributors: Melodie Christal, Christine Keller, Ellen Peters, Patrick Rossol-Allison, Mary Sapp, Alice VanOmmeren, and Katie Zaback comb through announcements about new policies, research reports, web resources, and other points of interest to AIR members and organize them for each month’s eAIR. Thank you for your work month after month to keep AIR members in the know!

Forum Program Committee Members: Viktor Brenner, Katie DeBoer, Mary Harrington, Jim Lenio, Bill Sadler, and Kimberly Thompson spent three days in Tallahassee reviewing hundreds of Forum session proposals and reviews. Their work shaped the program that Forum participants will experience in New Orleans. They took on a huge task and mastered it beautifully.

Proposal Reviewers: While we can’t name them all in this space, over 270 AIR members reviewed Forum session proposals to make selections for the New Orleans Forum. Their feedback and ratings will shape the learning experiences that participants will share at the Forum. Thank you!

AIR Best Paper Committee: Lou Attinasi, Michael Barber, Alli Bell, Sarah Carrigan, Stephen Chambers, Gloria Crisp, Ty Cruce, Leonard Goldfine, J. E. Gonzales, Patricia Haeuser, Daniel Jones-White, Rick Kroc, Brian Lashley, Tom Nelson Laird, Mark Salisbury, Nick Valcik, Melissa Welborn, and Chun-Mei Zhao read and reviewed all of the best paper submissions from last year’s Forum and selected the best of the best for an award from AIR that will be presented at the New Orleans Forum.

Reviewers for book proposals: Actually, we can’t name them because our peer review process is conducted anonymously. Thank you to the eight members who gave advice about three proposed books. The AIR staff knows who you are, and we thank you for your service.

Contributors to Resource Reviews: Thank you Patricia Windham and Julia McAdams for producing the first two Resource Reviews for the new eAIR. Reviews by members will be a standard feature going forward, with the bar set by Pat and Julia as the founding contributors. We also thank Gerry Dizinno who is coordinating and leading this new activity.