[Air-L] Voting Open & A Question for Candidates

Jeremy hunsinger jhunsinger at wlu.ca
Thu May 23 16:37:32 PDT 2013


I think that it is time to institute a formalized graduate student
mentoring program, where we associate graduate students with mentors that
will help them prepare materials for the conference, and in other ways.


On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 7:25 PM, Alexander Halavais <halavais at gmail.com>wrote:

> Dear AoIR Members (and members of the broader community),
>
> Just a reminder that AoIR elections are now open, and will be until the end
> of the month. I want to encourage all members to vote. There are lots of
> ways to help contribute to and shape the future of an organization like
> ours, and electing an executive committee that represents your interests is
> one of these.
>
> I have not yet voted and I'm hoping the candidates can answer a question
> for me. (And I hope others will ask questions as well, despite the looming
> deadline!)
>
> I've looked over your candidate statements (linked here:
>
> http://aoir.org/2013-executive-committee-election-candidate-statements-voting-information/
> )
> and I recognize and agree with the need to increase connections among
> members outside of the conference setting--something that several of you
> noted. That said, I wonder what single, concrete change you would most like
> to see in the conferences themselves, and how you might suggest bringing
> that about. What would you like to see in, say, Bangkok for 2014 that we
> haven't seen in previous conferences? (If anything!) And what can you do to
> help make that happen?
>
> Thank you all for running, and I look forward to your responses.
>
> Best,
>
> Alex
>
>
>
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