AIR Awards Process
Each year, AIR recognizes and celebrates individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the success of the Association and the profession through their leadership, service, and scholarship. The three available awards are outlined below.
Outstanding Service Award
Recognizes a member for professional leadership and exemplary service to AIR, and may be bestowed posthumously.
John Stecklein Distinguished Member
Award Recognizes a member whose professional career has significantly advanced the field of institutional research through extraordinary scholarship, leadership, and service.
Sidney Suslow Scholar Award
Recognizes an individual who, through scholarly work, has made significant contributions to the field of institutional research and advanced understanding of the profession in a meaningful way.
Glenn W. James
Outstanding Service Award
Lydia Snover
John Stecklein Distinguished Member Award
Richard Voorhees
Sidney Suslow Scholar Award
Publication Awards
Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award celebrates the scholarly papers presented at the AIR annual conference (Forum) that are subsequently accepted for publishing in a peer reviewed journal. These papers best exemplify the standards of excellence established by the award's namesake and make significant contributions to the field of IR. 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.
Have an idea for a new award?
Review the procedures PDF. Proposals must be received by July 1 of a given year to be considered for implementation at the following Forum.
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