Best Paper Award

In 1993, AIR initiated the policy of providing a slot in the Forum program for short presentations by winners of the Best Paper award from each of its affiliate groups. This proved so successful that in 1995 a full-time slot was allotted for each of the regional best paper presentations. From 2010 on, the MidAIR Best Paper Award will also be available to first-time presenters.

Recipients

Year: Recipient

2023: Egon Heidendal, Missouri State University

2022: John Clayton, Connor Nyberg, Alex Wells, Johnson County Community College

2021: Matt Harris, Ozarks Technical Community College

2020: Chris Urban, Kansas State University

2019: Bobbie Augspurger, Missouri Southern State University

2018: Fiorella Penaloza, Cleveland University - Kansas City

2017: Dr. Lou Guthrie, National Higher Education Benchmarking Institute

2016: Mary Ann Penniston and Alex Cruz, Northwest Missouri State University

2015: Eric Chambers & Ryan Klotz, St. Louis Community College

2014: Abby Benz & Matt Simpson, Ozarks Technical Community College

2013: Sheri Barrett, Johnson County Community College

2012: John Clayton, Ozarks Technical Community College

2011: Rachel Dykstra Boon, Drake University

2010: Sarah M.Williams, Missouri State University

2009: Kathy Schmidtke-Felts, University of Missouri-Columbia

          Mark Ehlert, University of Missouri – Columbia

2008: Ron Pennington, St. Charles Community College

          Barbara Keim, St. Charles Community College

2007: Kathy Schmidtke-Felts, University of Missouri-Columbia

2006: Mark Hammer, Texas Women’s University

          Lindsay Renfro, Baylor University

2005: Mike Podgursky, University of Missouri – Columbia

          Mark Ehlert, University of Missouri – Columbia

2004: Charles Van Middlesworth, Metropolitan Community Colleges

2003: Thulasi Kumar, University of Northern Iowa

2002: Ming Wang, University of Missouri System

2001: Mardy Eimers, University of Missouri System

          Robert Mullen, University of Missouri System

2000: Karen Conklin, Johnson County Community College

1999: Ryan Cherland, University of Kansas

1998: Theresa Smith, University of Oklahoma

1997: Guihua Li, University of Missouri

          Shawna Long, University of Missouri

          Mary Ellen Simpson, University of Missouri

1996: Ryan Cherland, University of Kansas

1995: No award given

1994: Karen Conklin, Johnson County Community College

1993: Brian Nedwek, St. Louis University