Call for Proposals for NEAIR 2009 Conference

Proposals are now being accepted for the 36th Annual North East Association for Institutional Research (NEAIR) Conference to be held November 7 to 10 at the Inner Harbor Sheraton, Baltimore, Maryland. The conference theme "Harbor in a Storm: Institutional Research in the Age of Accountability" should stimulate research, scholarship, and best practices on many topics relating to institutional research, planning, institutional effectiveness and student learning outcomes assessment.

Please consider sharing your knowledge and experience by submitting a proposal for a Contributed Paper, Poster, Workshare or Techshare session. We are also accepting proposals for a half- or full-day Pre-Conference Workshop.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is June 17, 2009. For more information about presentation formats or to submit your proposal visit:

http://www.neair.org/proposals/?page=1606 .

Steve Thorpe
2009 NEAIR Conference Program Chair
swthorpe@widener.edu

Gayle Fink
2009 NEAIR Associate Program Chair
gfink@usmd.edu

Call for Peer Reviewers

The 2009 NEAIR Conference Program Committee will use a peer-review system to evaluate the proposals submitted for the 2009 Fall Conference.

With the help of a rubric, each contributed paper, workshare or techshare proposal will go through a blind review process and be evaluated by a minimum of two independent reviewers. None of the reviewers will know the identity of the proposal's author(s). Each volunteer will be expected to read and evaluate 4 to 6 proposals sometime between June 18 and July 18.

Of course, to make this work we need some volunteers to act as reviewers! If you are willing to serve as a reviewer for this year's conference, please contact Jim Trainer, 2009 Peer Review Coordinator, at james.trainer@villanova.edu by April 30th.

Thanks!

Steve Thorpe
Program Chair, 2009 NEAIR Conference
swthorpe@widener.edu

Jim Trainer
2009 Peer Review Coordinator
james.trainer@villanova.edu