AIR grants program.

The Association for Institutional Research (AIR), with support from NCES and the National Science Foundation (NSF), has developed a grants program titled Improving Institutional Research in Postsecondary Educational Institutions. The goals of this program are to provide professional development opportunities to doctoral students, institutional researchers, educators, and administrators, and to foster the use of federal databases for institutional research in postsecondary education. The program has the following four major components:

* dissertation research fellowships for doctoral students;

* research grants for institutional researchers and faculty;

* a Summer Data Policy Institute in the Washington, DC, area to study the national databases of NSF and NCES; and

* a senior fellowship program.

For more information, contact Susan Broyles (susan.broyles@ed.gov) or visit the AIR website (www.airweb.org).