Latest Charles F. Elton Best Papers Award Recipients Announced

Congratulations to the latest recipients of the Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award: Qingmin Shi, John R. Crooker, Christina Drum, and Brent M. Drake, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Their paper, “Investigation of the Effect of First Year Seminars on Student Success,” was accepted for publication in the Journal of the First-Year Experience & Students in Transition, volume 33, issue 2.

The AIR Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award celebrates the scholarly papers that best exemplify the standards of excellence established by the award's namesake and that make significant contributions to the fields of IR, IE, or Assessment. The purpose of the award is to promote scholarship and to acknowledge that AIR members make a wide variety of scholarly contributions to the field, ranging from theory to practice.