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@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-votin... ) 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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