Long-term AAPOR member and DC-AAPOR President, Scott Spillane Fricker was killed on December 22, 2017. He was 48 years old. His life and that of his loving wife, Buckley, were cut short by an act of inexplicable violence. Read more about Scott.
As the federal government prepares to conduct the 2020 Census, critics of the Census Bureau are pushing to make fundamental changes to how it collects its data. This month, Ward Connerly and Mike Gonzalez argued in The Post that the agency should remove questions in the census used to monitor race and ethnicity in our country.
Read the full op-ed
PANJAAPOR had a productive fall/winter and we are planning for an eventful spring 2018.
In November we held our first ever meet and greet at the Dillinger Room in New Brunswick, NJ with the goal of attracting new members. The event was a success, as we had several new faces who were eager to join and connect with current members.
GAAPOR is a group of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered AAPOR members and their friends who get together on Friday night at the annual conference for a social outing.
Greetings from the Student & Early Career (SEC) Subcommittee of the Membership and Chapter Relations Committee! We’re eagerly preparing and looking forward to another great conference and welcoming all student, early career or new(er) AAPORites this May in Denver!
Don't miss these exciting short courses at the 73rd Annual Conference in Denver!
AAPOR – the journey to take Public Opinion and Survey Research to New Heights continues as we inch closer to the 2018 AAPOR Conference in Denver! As I mentioned last month we had a record number of submissions (770 to be exact) and we have sent out acceptance notices for 636 submissions grouped into 23 Methodological Brief Sessions, 24 Panel Sessions, 51 Paper Sessions and 3 Poster Sessions. We are also going to have 12 PORTAL track sessions where you can take advantage of introductory, accessible talks for new and emerging areas in our field.
On February 14, the newest slate of candidates for AAPOR’s Executive Council will be announced to the membership. Voting will begin in early March. To arrive at this point takes a lot of input, effort, and good judgement by our members, the Nominations Committee, and AAPOR Council.
Ever wonder how the nominees are selected? Here is how it works.
Colleagues, sharing with you an update on Executive Council activities. As way of background, our Council meets twelve months a year. Given the geographic dispersion of our elected Council members, seven of these meetings are conference calls, which typically run about two hours in length. The five other meetings are held in person, typically several times in Washington, once in Chicago, and the day immediately preceding our annual conference. As you might imagine, all of our Association’s business and planning activities are reviewed and approved during these meetings, which often makes for intensely packed agendas.