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Workshop Session and Individual Speaker Comments:
Need to repeat and have multiple presenters with different models.
Liked the presentation and the content. It was very interesting to hear the approach.
Would like to hear some of the challenges that they faced and how they over came them.
Deborah did a great job of presenting her institution’s incentive plan. It seemed a fair & equitable system. I
think it is successful also because of the institution.
Lunch and AIM Distinguished Lecture
Catherine G. Wood, Moderator
Dale W. Davenport
Presentation
Content
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Session and Individual Speaker Comments:
Dale was the best ever!! Please repeat next year!
WOW. I need a ten to give it. Dale brought me to tears. It was so sad that not everyone could of heard
that talk.
Dale was awesome, sorry people missed it because Dales address was GREAT and right on! kudos dale!
This lunch should have never been scheduled as the last thing of the conference, particularly since there
was a Distinguished lecture. It was embarrassing that only about 25% of all attendees stuck around
because of the Distinguished lecture. The low turnout should have been anticipated based on previous
years’ attendance on the last day.
Dale Davenport gave a very thoughtful speech. Top shelf person to pick. I wish it could have been better
attended, as I think he had a message each administrator could take home. Possibly in the future you may
be able to have people rsvp if they can attend last session. It seemed there were empty tables. I wish he
could give an encore presentation at the next AIM meeting.
Excellent talk-one of the best of the conference by someone who is clearly experienced in their profession.
Let’s not end with the Distinguished Lecture luncheon again. Too many people had left by then, it was a
very small turnout and I felt bad for Dale. He gave a great talk!
Please provide specific examples and suggestions to improve future AAIM meetings:
Consider a minimal handout, e.g., a page with session objectives and perhaps references, with sessions,
especially with workshops. They can be very helpful in keeping the learning focused.
great meeting, runs well
Encourage active involvement in workshops and arrange for room set-up that facilitates this.
I really like remediation lectures and how to identify students having academic problems earlly
Larger workshop rooms.....rooms were crowded
Find a facility with adequate space. The Philadelphia Downtown Marriott did not have adequate space for
plenaries or breakout sessions. Both were cramped and uncomfortable.
I thought the cdim organization was well done this year. good flow to the meeting. keep the joint
workshop time.
Ask people to rank that workshop sessions in their order of interest so that if there is high interest for one
particular section, that a larger room may be selected so that everyone is not standing in the back or sitting
on the floor. Please continue to make the handouts and presentations available ahead of time. It is
appreciated.
it seems that all the workshops I was interested in were given at the same time; could there be multiple
presentations of “the best” workshops so wouldn’t have to miss them
Starting the CDIM Meeting on Friday AM, rather than Thursday PM was a nice change. Rooms were
narrow and small. Lunch at pre-course was inadequate - there was none left by the time we got out of our
meeting. More network time.
I liked the breakouts that were more like workshops, more of how to with tools and how to use them
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