The Joe Saupe Award
Best First-Time Presenter

This award was created in honor of Joe Saupe, Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Joe was one of the founding members of both AIR and MidAIR and has been a role model for many institutional researchers. Among his many publications, he authored one of the seminal documents of the field, The Functions of Institutional Research. The Joe Saupe Award is an honorary award initially given to Joe in recognition of his years of participation in and contribution to MidAIR. Subsequently, it has been awarded to first-time presenters at MidAIR to acknowledge the quality of their presentation, and as an encouragement to other newcomers to present at future MidAIR conferences.

Recipients of this award:

2009  Patrick Rossol, Johnson County Community College

2008  Derek Wesley, Mount Marty College

2007  Hong Gao, Loras College

2006  Karen Cunningham, University of Northern Iowa
         Kristin Moster, University of Northern Iowa
         Anthony Smothers, University of Northern Iowa

2005   Mark Hamner, Texas Woman's University

2004   Larry Westermeyer, University of Missouri-St. Louis
          Jennifer Spielvogel, University of Missouri-Kansas City

2003   Ralph Juhnke, Johnson County Community College
          Larry Bunce, Johnson County Community College

2002   (Tie) Rosemary Hayes, University of Oklahoma
          Thulasi Kumar, University of Northern Iowa

2001   Cheryl Carpenter, Metropolitan Community College
          Maura McCool, Metropolitan Community College

2000   Cindy Wehmeyer, St. Louis University

1999   Debra McClure, Washburn University

1998   Alisha Rychnovsky, University of Missouri System

1997   Ron Pennington, Webster University

1996   Barbara Alpern, Walsh College

1995   Carla Reichard, Oklahoma State University

1994   Ryan Cherland, University of Kansas

1993   William McCully, Iowa State University

1992   Brian Nedwek, St. Louis University

1991   Joint Conference with SAIR/SCUP--no award given

1990   Larry Kelly, Johnson County Community College

1989   John Bush, Oklahoma State University

1988   Joe Saupe, University of Missouri-Columbia

MidAIR Joe Saupe Award Page
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