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Table of Contents Welcome and Introduction .......................................................................................3 Forum Highlights......................................................................................................4 2008 Program Tracks...............................................................................................5 General Information Onsite Registration, General Information......................................................6 Forum Services ............................................................................................6 AIR Best Visual Presentation Award.............................................................7 Charles F. Elton Best Paper Award ..............................................................8 2007-08 Board of Directors......................................................................................9 2008 Forum Committees .........................................................................................9 2008 Participating Exhibitors ...................................................................................13 AIR Forum Daily Events: Saturday, May 24, 2008 ................................................................................23 Sunday, May 25, 2008...................................................................................26 Monday, May 26, 2008..................................................................................42 Tuesday, May 27, 2008 .................................................................................79 Wednesday, May 28, 2008............................................................................117 Participant Index ......................................................................................................145 Meeting/Track Index.................................................................................................153 Day Matrices............................................................................................................167 Floor Plans...............................................................................................................172 2 • 48th Annual AIR Forum 48th Annual AIR Forum • 3 Welcome and Introduction Welcome! If this is your first AIR Forum, welcome! You exhibitor booths and presentations. Please will be amazed at the variety of programming explore the advantages of each format as and how narrowing down the presentations you plan which sessions to attend. When that are pertinent to your interests can be a planning your schedule, keep in mind that real challenge. presentations are subject to change so consider having backups. We recommend The six Forum tracks are: 1) Enhancing the reading Morning AIR, printed each day, for Student Experience; 2) Assessing Student news and session updates. Learning and Outcomes; 3) Developing Academic Programs, Curriculum and Pre-Forum Workshops are half-day and full- Faculty Issues; 4) Informing Institutional day sessions that provide professionals in Management and Planning; 5) Building Higher student learning assessment, higher education Education Collaborations, Policy Issues and research, planning or policy analysis the Accountability; and 6) Practicing Institutional opportunity to acquire new skills or develop new Research: Theory, Techniques, Technologies, areas of interest. Please note that Pre-Forum Tools and Ethics. Workshops do require advance registration. There are additional fees to participate in these The Forum is structured to maximize the sessions. opportunity to exchange ideas and participate in a dialogue involving subjects related to On the social side, be sure to take note of each of the tracks. Meeting sessions are in the Early Arrivers Reception on Saturday, the several formats: papers, demonstrations, Sunday evening Forum Reception, the Forum panels, posters, informal table discussions Awards Luncheon on Wednesday, and the (table topics), keynote plenary sessions, and Wind-Up Party Wednesday evening. 2 • 48th Annual AIR Forum 48th Annual AIR Forum • 3 Forum Highlights The Online Personalized effectiveness of our Institutional Research Offices. Scheduling Tool Panelists will be asked to discuss: What makes an effective Institutional Research Office, What does The Online Personalized Scheduling Tool can be it take to lead an effective Institutional Research found at the AIR Web site http://airweb.org. The Office, and What can AIR do to improve the quality Scheduler allows you to view Forum sessions by of Institutional Research Offices? Track, Presenter, Day and Time, Location, Presenter Institution/Organization or by Date. In addition to 101 — 2008 AIR Poster Sessions viewing the session title and summary information, Posters will be displayed from 5:00 p.m. on the full abstract can be viewed by clicking on the Sunday through 6:00 pm on Monday. Authors will session number. Attendees do not need an ID or be in attendance from 5:00 - 6:00 pm on Sunday password to use the Personalized Scheduler. afternoon and again from 5:10 - 6:00 pm on Monday afternoon. A “click” will place any selected session on your personalized schedule, which can be reviewed, AIR Anniversary sessions: AIR and IR from the updated, or printed with the sessions you have 1960s to the 2000s selected, listed with the title and summary In preparation for the AIR golden anniversary information. The Online Personalized Scheduling celebration, the AIR 50th committee is compiling Tool builds a Forum schedule for your personal use, an IR history, and we need YOUR help. Please join but does not commit you or reserve space for you. these sessions and dump your memories! Special Sessions 718 — Implementing New Race/Ethnicity Standards in IPEDS Current and emerging issues (Special Event, Monday, 10:40-12:20 am, 609, Level of particular interest to the Six, Convention Center) institutional research community The U.S. Department of Education recently are the focus of special sessions issued guidance on maintaining, collecting and designed specifically for this Forum reporting data on race and ethnicity. Panelists will conference. The Forum logo Chair’s Pick discuss the department’s guidance, suggestions (at right) appears beside these made by the TRP, the NCES plan for implementing programs that include the following: the change among the different IPEDS components, and the impact for data collection on postsecondary 527 — Accreditation, Assessment, and AIR: campuses. Improved Student Learning, Institutional and Educational Effectiveness, External 002 — The Upcoming Race/Ethnicity Changes: Accountability, or All of the Above? What to Do?? Panel (100 minutes) Monday, 10:40-12:20 pm, 204, (Monday, 3:10-4:50 pm, 608, Level Six, Convention Level Two, Convention Center) Center) Institutional researchers are frequently This session will provide an opportunity called upon to provide clarifying perspectives on for conversation and discussion on the Race/ pressing national issues affecting higher education. Ethnicity regulations and how they may impact IR The session will provide perspectives to assist professionals and other institution officials. institutional researchers and assessment officers in explaining and building support among faculty Other invited sessions showcase activities of AIR’s and administrators for meeting the challenges External Relations Committee and AIR affiliated of determining when student learning equals or groups. Look for Best Papers presented at state exceeds expectations. and regional AIR affiliated group meetings; formal presentations of research sponsored through the 006 — Presidential Symposium - Effective IR AIR Grant Program; and programs by international Offices: A View from the Trenches! colleagues. These sessions demonstrate the vitality (Track 0, Special Event, Sunday, 2:00-4:00 pm, 303, and depth of state and regional conferences and Level Three, Convention Center) the quality of institutional research conducted world In today’s era of public accountability wide. and assessment, we all need to establish the 4 • 48th Annual AIR Forum 48th Annual AIR Forum • 5 2008 Program Tracks The session number corresponds to the respective track. For example, session 101 represents a presentation for Track 1, session 205 is a presentation for Track 2, etc. Track 1 – Enhancing the Student Track 5 – Building Higher Experience Education Collaborations, Policy This track covers research and practice related Issues and Accountability to student development and the impact of the This track covers research and practice emphasizing student experience outside the classroom, such as issues that go beyond the campus and recognize quantitative and qualitative measures of personal, that national and international dimensions of higher social and life skill development; campus/community education including accountability of individual engagement; program improvements based institutions to external publics; multi-institutional on assessments of student needs, as well as collaborations (e.g., data exchanges, learning demographic and economic issues; student mobility consortia, and articulation agreements) and and flow; and student satisfaction with the higher associations; state and system-level issues, evolving education experience. public policy; workforce and economics development initiatives integral to the higher education mission. Track 2 – Assessing Student Learning and Outcomes Track 6 – Practicing Institutional This track covers research and practice related Research: Theory, Techniques,