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April 30th, 12-1 pm central time
MAPOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING AGENDA
March 22, 2021
12:30 – 2:00 CST/1:30 pm – 3:00pm EST
Zoom invite
MAPOR MOMENT of the MONTH: Lindsey taking on the Secretary/Treasurer role
Agenda:
Attendees: Dana, Kevin, David, Leah, Evgenia, John, Hillary, Patrick, Ned, Bob, Lindsey
Stephanie sent letter to the President resigning from her position on March 15th. Kevin put forward a motion for Lindsey to fill the position. Bob seconded. Membership voted and it was approved.
Minutes were approved from the February meeting
The hotel will be providing a quote on the use of their technology. In May, the committee will send communication out about the 2021 conference. The content of that communication language will be discussed in the April meeting. David reached out to a few potential speakers. They will also look at the member survey data to help determine the size of the room block needed.
One more email reminder will be sent. The survey currently has a 37% response rate. The survey will remain open until the end of March. The results will go in the next newsletter, but we do not know when that is. Hillary will clean the data. Evgenia offered to analyze the data.
Checking: $28,544
Savings: $46,968
No updates.
Dana will make the changes that Lindsey is the new Secretary/Treasurer. Patrick will change the secretary email to go to Lindsey in GoDaddy.
Patrick has the website page done. Lindsey will communicate with the speakers. Patrick will take on the tech responsibilities. Lindsey will send the emails to the MAPOR and AAPOR list serves.
[2021 webinar in October]
The committee continues to work on this. There was also discussion that there should be a continual conversation in relation to webinars and newsletters about sponsorship. Sponsorship is for the entire year and helps reduce webinar costs and such. Dana or John will draft something to send out to past sponsors.
The deadline was extended by two weeks. Three fellowships were given. Thank you to Dana, Kevin and Ned who reviewed everything! They are now connecting the students with their identified mentors who they will meet with once a month. They are going to get feedback in the summer and end of the year from students and mentors to know how it went.
People should give feedback in the next few weeks so Dana can incorporate it before the next month’s meeting
Evgenia wants to send an email to conference attendees and non-attendees (people who have left over the last few years). She has some college departments identified to email as well. The email will discuss the conference. Depending on how COVID continues, there may be an in person mixer in Chicago this summer.
Discussed with other business.
The meeting will take place through Zoom on a Friday from 1pm to 5pm CST.
Lindsey, Kevin, and Stephanie are coming off other committees. Please consider helping with other committees.
AAPOR is a great time to scout for future webinars and future MAPOR conference speakers.
The webinar committee should look at the webinar topic information from the member survey to help identify requested topics and then use this information to scout for future webinar speakers during AAPOR.
Evgenia suggested a session or panel on how to structure one’s work. David and Leah will see if there is room in the conference schedule.
Committee Composition
Council members
President – Dana Garbarski
Vice President – Kevin Ulrich
Past President – Ned English
Conference Chair – David Sterrett
Associate Conference Chair – Leah Dean
Secretary-Treasurer – Lindsey Witt-Swanson
Associate Secretary-Treasurer – Vacant
Members at Large – Bob Davis, Hillary Hanson, Ed Ledek, Sara Walsh
Sponsorship Coordinator – John Stevenson
Webinar and Website Coordinator – Patrick Hsieh
Communications Chair – Justine Bulgar-Medina
Student Liaison- Evgenia Kapousouz
GO MAPOR GO!
MAPOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING AGENDA
February 15, 2021
12:30 – 2:00 CST/1:30 pm – 3:00pm EST
Zoom invite
MAPOR MOMENT of the MONTH: Our MAPOR Moment of the Month goes to Lindsey, who helped with getting the survey drafted and scheduling the April webinar! Thank you Lindsey!
Agenda:
Attendees: Patrick, Dana, Kevin, David, Stephanie, Leah, Evgenia, Sara, John, Hillary, Lindsey, Ned
David met with hotel to discuss A/V options. Looks like a hybrid format wouldn’t require a software like Cadmium, we would instead have a Zoom link for each conference room (with computer and camera). We could pre-record the presentations through Zoom, and have facilitators for each link. The A/V vendor would provide several on-site support staff for troubleshooting. Still a question on whether we rent or buy computers for presentations. David will work with vendor to get more detailed costs.
Minutes approved from January meeting
Discussed feedback given on survey. Will incorporate! Plan to send survey by end of February.
Checking: $28,665 (includes ~$8000 final Cadmium payment)
Savings: $46,968
Justine needs text from both Dana and Stephanie. We will send those by end of this week, then newsletter can go out before the survey.
No update
Topic of our spring webinar will be how qualitative research has moved to virtual environment. Presenters are Andrew Stavisky (U.S. GAO) and Isaac Rogers (20/20 Research). April 21, 12:00p central. Materials are ready to go – advertising and registration will begin soon.
New sponsorship coordinator position is going to be filled by past president. This year, John, Bob, and Dana will build this out, then next year Dana will fill the role. John will be mindful this year of documenting all his steps/documents/templates/calendars/etc., and will be available to support Dana next year. The past president/coordinator can also pull in other resources strategically. Agreement from Council that this is a good plan.
We have 1 submission so far. Original deadline was 2/14/21 – should we extend? Yes, Evgenia will send notice to AAPOR and MAPOR to announce extension to 3/1/21. Council members in university environment can re-post internally to try to generate more interest.
Motion proposed and passed: after the original deadline passed, and only one student submitted an application, Council agreed that Evgenia could submit an application.
Committee met to discuss spending plan. Student support award and Colleague support award announced around the call for abstracts. Some other ideas include free or reduced registration, some travel awards, etc. Dana distributed a proposal for Student Support and Colleague Support awards, loosely modeled after Roper Support Award at AAPOR. We reviewed Dana’s draft proposal. Decision to keep open option to cover more than just conference registration – maybe state upper limit of $500 “depending on needs of MAPOR community”. Note to be mindful of amount of effort required to apply (and to evaluate applications). Dana will update proposal and send around for review.
Evgenia will draft email to professors, stating benefits for both faculty and students to be MAPOR members;
Discussed planning a virtual happy hour, maybe include a raffle prize of a book for students;
Kevin will cross-check AAPOR list for non-MAPOR members who live in MAPOR area, and will target them;
We will review data from survey on interest in virtual mixers.
No other business discussed
Committee Composition
Council members
President – Dana Garbarski
Vice President – Kevin Ulrich
Past President – Ned English
Conference Chair – David Sterrett
Associate Conference Chair – Leah Dean
Secretary-Treasurer – Stephanie Chardoul
Associate Secretary-Treasurer – Vacant
Members at Large – Bob Davis, Hillary Hanson, Ed Ledek, Sara Walsh, Lindsey Witt-Swanson
Sponsorship Coordinator – John Stevenson
Webinar and Website Coordinator – Patrick Hsieh
Communications Chair – Justine Bulgar-Medina
Student Liaison- Evgenia Kapousouz
GO MAPOR GO!
MAPOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING AGENDA
January 11, 2021
12:30 – 2:00 CST/1:30 pm – 3:00pm EST
Zoom invite
MAPOR MOMENT of the MONTH: Our MAPOR Moment of the Month is for our website committee for learning WordPress and making the necessary 2021 updates!
Attendees: Bob, Patrick, Stephanie, Kevin, Dana, Leah, Evgenia, David, Hillary, Lindsey, John, Justine, Ned, Sara
December meeting minutes approved.
Agenda:
David is in communication with Embassy Suites, they seem flexible. He will stay in touch with them. In March/April, we will talk with them again. We can cancel as late as August without losing money. Will get some data from member survey on willingness/plan to travel to Chicago for conference. Discussion on what we mean by “hybrid” – both presenters and attendees remote, or have presenters/facilitators in person? Keep in mind call for participation usually goes out in early May.
Discussion of whether we would use Cadmium again. Need to confirm hotel’s capability to “broadcast” live events. If hybrid format, we expect we will have fewer pre-recorded sessions and more live. Need to keep in mind if we can afford both hotel and Cadmium. If not Cadmium, there are other lower-threshold options (AAPOR is using Pathable)
Subcommittee is reviewing 2020 member survey and proposing updates. A draft will be sent to Council prior to February meeting for review and input.
Checking account: $36,449
Savings account: $46,967
Plan is to get newsletter out by early February – post-conference, welcome to 2021. Justine will send a new request for content.
Website committee standing by to support updates. Need to update current Council; Patrick will share link to spreadsheet to update our info.
(make sure headshot is not a .pdf, but a picture file)
Lindsey and Patrick need to discuss and come up with a plan. Lindsey did look at last year’s member survey to get some ideas for topics/presenters.
Dana sent thank you letters to all sponsors. John, Bob, and Dana will meet this week to develop sponsorship plan for this year. How might a hybrid or entirely remote conference affect sponsors?
Submissions are due February 14. Plan to send reminder next week, then one more reminder immediately before Feb 14.
May be too soon to make decisions on this before we know format/cost of 2021 conference.
Plan first virtual mixer so can include in February newsletter(?).
Nothing was raised. Meeting adjourned.
Committee Composition
Council members
President – Dana Garbarski
Vice President – Kevin Ulrich
Past President – Ned English
Conference Chair – David Sterrett
Associate Conference Chair – Leah Dean
Secretary-Treasurer – Stephanie Chardoul
Associate Secretary-Treasurer – Vacant
Members at Large – Bob Davis, Hillary Hanson, Ed Ledek, Sara Walsh, Lindsey Witt-Swanson
Sponsorship Coordinator – John Stevenson
Webinar and Website Coordinator – Patrick Hsieh
Communications Chair – Justine Bulgar-Medina
Student Liaison- Evgenia Kapousouz
GO MAPOR GO!
MAPOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING AGENDA
December 14, 2020
12:30 – 2:00 CST/1:30 pm – 3:00pm EST
Zoom invite
MAPOR MOMENT of the MONTH: Our MAPOR Moment of the Month is for our outgoing council for a successful MAPOR 2020, with special thanks to our Conference Chair Sara Walsh. MAPOR 2020 was an outstanding event characterized by professional execution and collaboration.
Agenda:
Attendees: Patrick, Stephanie, Lindsey, Dana, Bob, John, Leah, Hillary, Kevin, Evgenia, David, Justine, Sara
November meeting minutes approved.
Introductions of new and returning Council members
Proposal to keep 3rd Monday monthly Council meetings, 12:30-2:00p central.
Let Dana know if you have an alternative email you’d like to use for access to Google Drive. Also, if you need to be added to listserv.
Review of new subcommittee structure plan (see end of agenda).
50% of Cadmium payment still outstanding; technical consultant (Karen Allison) has been fully paid. No other outstanding expenses.
Notes have not been send to sponsors yet. Dana will follow up with Sara.
Goal is to have some sort of hybrid approach in 2021 that includes in-person component similar to past years, as well as some remote capabilities to accommodate people who can’t travel, don’t have funding support, etc.
David will reach out to Embassy Suites, to request a 90-day notice contract (instead of current 180-day window) – this would mean a decision needs to be made by end of August. We also may try to reduce the minimum room block number.
Conference committee will decide best approach on conference technology acquisitions (e.g. purchasing Chromebooks). Will make sure it’s compatible with new tech installed in conference hotel.
Idea of recruiting speakers who have ties to MAPOR (“MAPOR roots”); try to incorporate more “methodological” component, to integrate with substantive topics; call on MAPOR Fellows for keynote; for Pedagogy hour, focus on attitudinal/communications; for short course, will review recent topics, maybe something around questionnaire design. Send David/Leah any additional ideas/suggestions.
Will build on work Kevin did on 2020 survey to streamline content. Obviously update to reflect virtual conference. Plan to send ~late January/early February, and continue to use Qualtrics for administration. Stephanie will work on draft with subcommittee and Dana, share update at next month’s meeting.
Current balances:
Checking: $37,638
Savings: $46,967
Stephanie will update membership list by end of December, incorporating list of members who joined through AAPOR plus results of email membership push to past members.
Justine will send reminder this week to compile content for Winter newsletter, plan to circulate mid-January. Dana will review past-year content, and decide whether we will circulate 3 or 4 newsletters this year. Option to have 2 “big” ones and 2 “small” ones.
Idea to host a “game night” or other on-line mixer
Plan to link to presentations on Google Drive from website.
Some discussion around how to best manage the website, requests for posting content, etc. Adding Dana and Hillary as resources will help.
Cleaned up who will receive the general MAPOR emails (president@, secretary@, info@).
GoToWebinar is not as functional as Zoom, but might work well enough (to not incur Zoom license cost). We can subscribe to GoToWebinar just in the months that we need it. Plan to host two webinars in 2021. Open to ideas on topics/speakers. Will take a look at last year’s survey responses with suggestions for topics.
Question on status of Student Fellowship announcement – it is final, Evgenia will send this week.
Evgenia asked students for input on the conference. Results mostly positive, especially around networking opportunity. Is there a way to expand this?
Proposal of an outreach program to professors, not necessarily targeting students. Alternatively, could we think about how to maximize first-time attendee retention with MAPOR.
John is thinking about sponsorship/fundraising strategy. Stephanie will follow up with him to review current expense/revenue spreadsheet.
Discussion on how to better collaborate on outreach (esp. student) ideas across MAPOR, PAPOR, etc. Bob added to Outreach subcommittee.
Next meeting will be scheduled for Jan 11.
Committee Composition (updated with notes from Dana’s 12/15 email)
Council members
President – Dana Garbarski
Vice President – Kevin Ulrich
Past President – Ned English
Conference Chair – David Sterrett
Associate Conference Chair – Leah Dean
Secretary-Treasurer – Stephanie Chardoul
Associate Secretary-Treasurer – Vacant
Members at Large – Bob Davis, Hillary Hanson, Ed Ledek, Sara Walsh, Lindsey Witt-Swanson
Sponsorship Coordinator – John Stevenson
Webinar and Website Coordinator – Patrick Hsieh
Communications Chair – Justine Bulgar-Medina
Student Liaison- Evgenia Kapousouz
GO MAPOR GO!
MAPOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING AGENDA
November 16th, 2020
12:30 – 2:00 CST/1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Zoom invite
MAPOR MOMENT of the MONTH: Our MAPOR Moment of the Month recognizes the 2019-2020 Executive Council members. Thank you for all your hard work during a trying year- it has been my pleasure serving with you.
Agenda:
Ned moves to approve minutes.
Kevin seconds.
The motion is passed and the minutes are approved.
Ned will circulate template for business meeting slides. After they are completed, send them back to Ned to aggregate. He will move the slides forward during the meeting.
Checking: $38,351.33
Savings: $46,966.56
Current projections have the conference costing us $8,000.
MAPOR is now the proud owner of a 5’ x 4’ storage unit in Andersonville. All of the conference materials are there. If there are other things we would like to add such as the MAPOR archives (now in NORC) Kevin can get them to the storage unit.
Hosts of meetings should try to post and ask other to post in sessions.
#MAPOR20
Mary will present at the business meeting.
Dana will send out the new business meeting time. We will probably use the same time unless we hear that a new member is unable to attend at that time.
Next Meeting: Member meeting, Saturday November 21st
Committee Composition:
GO MAPOR GO!
MAPOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING AGENDA
October19th, 2020
12:30 – 2:00 CST/1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Zoom invite
MAPOR MOMENT of the MONTH: Our MAPOR Moment of the Month recognizes Sara and the conference committee for their diligent work as we draw near to the annual conference. In addition, I’d like to recognize Patrick and Lindsey in putting together such great webinars.
Attendees: Ned, Lindsey, Patrick, Stephanie, Kevin, Ipek, Mary, Evgenia, Justine, Sara, Allison, Dana, Leah
Agenda:
Minutes approved
Note that AAPOR members, as part of endorsement of AAPOR bylaws, are required to agree to the AAPOR DEI statement. Decision made to endorse official statement for MAPOR.
Election will open October 30. New election survey is ready to go. Kevin raised issue of potential conflict of interest given he is on the candidate slate. Ipek shared her similar situation in the past, and recused herself. So, Kevin and Stephanie will work toward Stephanie being the “outward facing” Exec Council member managing the election.
Ned asked for assistance with the “script” for the Conference (esp. Keynote, but also other “transitions”)
Newsletter content delivered to Justine. Program is formatted and draft format is ready to go. Thank you Kevin for programming Cvent registration, which should open soon, after a round of internal testing. Once registration is opened and the full program is finished, Sara will coordinate with Cadmium to establish login credentials for both presenters (to access platform and upload slides) and attendees (output list from Cvent). For all live events (short course, keynote, pedagogy, business meeting), we will use the Zoom platform, not pre-loaded into Cadmium. Evgenia offered to look into purchasing a Zoom subscription for MAPOR. Dana will start working on updating the 2020 Conference page on the MAPOR website, where the Cvent registration link will be added, and also the link to the draft program.
Student papers have been sent to Tom. Reviewers will give feedback by early next week.
Speed networking: Ned will draft email to sponsors to see who is interested in being a “networker”. Once get responses to that, will organize one session and communicate to registrants.
Student Fellowship program: Evgenia has 8 Fellows who have agreed to participate, and several more “maybe’s”. Next step is to figure out how we will announce/frame the program. For example, student is responsible for providing data for analysis. We should give guidelines for abstract format/length. Evgenia will draft text to announce at 2020 conference, then we will expect Fellows to present at 2021 conference.
Conference production: should live production happen on-site at NORC? Sara is still considering, knows request will need to go to D. Gaylin.
Checking: $32,603
Savings: $49,966
Set deadline for Business Meeting slides by Friday (11/20) afternoon.
Justine will circulate draft of October newsletter later today, send comments back to her by Wednesday. Also will put out both Twitter and Facebook posts regarding conference. Hope to have new communications 1-2x per week leading up to conference.
We should wait until everything is working/linked on MAPOR website before sending newsletter.
During conference, idea to engage students/early career volunteers in tweeting(?). Sara will share contact info for some participants who indicated an excitement/interest in participating.
$7250 in sponsorship funding in hand. Not bad, given the year.
When will free registration code that goes to upper-level sponsors be available (Kevin has the codes and will send to Allison and Mary)? Other than artwork, is there anything needed from sponsors for program?
We have 24 registrants so far for Wednesday’s webinar.
Evgenia would like to hold a happy hour session just with students on Thursday (11/19) evening. Some Council members will plan to attend.
Dana and Sara will adapt conference-related pages.
Ned should let AAPOR conference chairs (Kristen and Darby) know who won MAPOR student paper award
Next Meeting: November 16th 2020
Committee Composition:
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MAPOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ANNUAL MEETING
September 18, 2020
1:00 PM – 5:00pm (CST)/2:00 PM – 6:00pm (EST)
Zoom Invite
Attendees: Ned, Patrick, Kevin, Stephanie, David, Lindsey, Mary, Ipek, Justine, Leah, Allison, Sara, Evgenia, Dana
Agenda:
1:00 – 1:15 pm Welcome, Review of Agenda, and Meeting Goals (Ned)
Discussion of Student Fellowship: Idea is that one Fellow can provide guidance to one student on a specific project. Students will submit abstracts, and we’ll match with available/appropriate Fellows. The student will present at next year’s (2021) conference. Evgenia sent email to the Fellows. Some responses have already come in (both positive and hesitant). Evgenia will send a reminder next week to non-responders, but we have some Fellows we can start with and plan on running the program. Let’s keep it vague for now, we don’t know how many Fellowships we’ll accept. Proposal to have a January deadline for abstract submission, then make Fellowship decisions/matches by February. Evgenia can hold a live session during the conference to present to students.
1:15 – 1:30 pm Secretary-Treasurer Updates (Kevin)
[see slides]
Even with conservative estimates on revenue and expenses, we basically break even for 2020.
Guessing about conference attendance, and varying costs for registration, short course, etc. There is a trend to make these virtual events free for students (SAPOR, etc.). Idea of how to better reach out to professors/programs who don’t currently come to MAPOR but if they did their students may be more likely. Maybe other than “free”, assign a minimal fee so that it still conveys value to participants. Discussion about how to set fees for conference and short course. Proposal to eliminate difference between early bird and late registration fees. [see further discussion later in meeting]
1:30 – 1:45 pm Council and Fellow Nominations and Election Updates (Ned)
Council nominees:
Conference chair: Leah Dean/Hillary Hanson
Vice President: Kevin Ulrich/Bob Davis
Slate needs to be announced next week.
Fellows: we’re in process of ranking 4 potential Fellows.
Recommendation that we try to tighten up the criteria and process for Fellows after this year. Note that we need more representation of women and non-white nominees.
1:45 – 2:00 pm Sponsorship Updates (Allison/Mary)
Received $3200 of committed sponsorships. 2 previous sponsors who haven’t responded. At least a couple academic centers who aren’t able to sponsor this year. Projecting $8000 as high end of final sponsorship revenue.
How should we handle graphics received from sponsors? Sara will create (or identify an existing) a folder in the Google drive – put all graphics/logo’s there. Sara will also get specifications for size, image type, resolution, etc.
One observation from committee: we seem to be asking the same people every year. For next year, might be worth reviewing potential sponsors and expanding the ask.
2:00 – 2:15 pm Communication Updates (Justine)
Planning on October newsletter. Send content week of September 28 (Justine sent reminder to Council via email). This newsletter will include fall webinar and election info. Maybe introduce the Fellowship program. Also include some virtual conference info – “what to expect”. Will supplement the newsletter with Twitter and Facebook posts.
Twitter at the conference: Last year, tried to have someone in each session room to live tweet news. Should try to do something like this again? Maybe rather than “per session”, figure out a different format that keeps it interactive and keeps people connected. Maybe focus on “Break” periods.
2:15 – 2:30 pm Webinar Updates (Patrick/Lindsey)
Ana Gonzales from Pew will give fall webinar on new questions on Hispanic/Latinx ethnicity. October 21 is set date. Per email discussion, $20 non-members/$10 members/$0 students. Waiting to get details from Ana, then will update the website and send out to listserv. Have also asked Ana to join as a panel member for “Why Representation Matters”.
Special Note
U of Chicago Survey Lab technically closes Nov 4. (Perhaps/hopefully they will find a new home with Division of Biologic Sciences.) They are holding 4 crates (plus other stuff) of conference materials, and we need to identify a new home. Rather than relying on individuals, perhaps MAPOR should rent a climate-controlled storage unit (maybe $50/month). Council agreed that MAPOR will pursue renting a storage unit, preferably close to the Embassy Suites. Ned and Kevin will coordinate moving the material.
2:30 – 2:45 pm BREAK
2:45 – 5:00 pm 2020 Annual MAPOR Conference (Sara)
We received ~70 abstracts (3 posters/presentation; others no preference). So, everyone was accepted. Lots of election and Census topics, also interesting topics on “representation”.
Because there are only 4 posters, we can make them their own synchronous session.
Lots of excitement when authors were notified of their acceptance. Feels good!
With Cadmium, got an estimate for 75 12-minute presentations, and 20 posters. Since we have extra poster slots, maybe offer to high-value sponsors (5 minute pitch videos). (NORC)
[Sara reviewed her session plan]
Discussion of synchronous/live sessions and opportunities to interact and have Q&A, and the value of recorded presentations. When will recordings be available? What deadline do we need to give presenters regarding submission of their recorded videos (by Wednesday at the latest…)? Perhaps make videos available first during the actual scheduled session, then reserve the final 20-30 minutes for live video chat with presenters.
Maybe put more than half the presentations on Friday and make Saturday a little lighter.
Keynote/awards at lunch on Friday; Use 3:00p time for In Memorium, speed networking, social event, etc.
Saturday: start later (like 9:00a) with concurrent sessions (including posters); pedagogy hour over lunch; after lunch, Business Meeting – conference done by 2:30p
Ned will ask NORC to donate time to format the .pdf program (per usual)
Question on how exactly registration will work…Cvent or Cadmium? Could send to Cvent through website, but need to think about how to export registration list from Cvent to Cadmium. Target date for registration is around October 19 (once website is launched).
Sara will identify areas where she needs help and reach out.
Sara demonstrated a conference website with a format similar to what we’ll have. Sara will mock up tiles for main landing page and send around for feedback.
Sara will make first pass at assigning papers to sessions, then ask for feedback.
Peripheral events:
1) Evgenia will lead a student Zoom event
2) Speed networking: Need to start identifying “employers” by mid-October, then decide how much total time we need/how many slots to schedule. Some options on how to manage the “meetings”
3) In Memoriam: Reach out to Mansoor specifically about Ashley, but otherwise have space in the program and invite others to honor whom they want. Council members should plan to be in attendance.
4) Business Meeting: plan to hold it as a live session. Might be easier to put together slides because we won’t have same variability around revenue and expenses.
Revisiting conference fees: Agreement that we will have early bird rate: $50 early/$75 late. For students, will keep registration as free for early bird, but $25 late. Short course: question on whether to record (will check with Trent); $35/$10. Membership dues: $20/$5. Need to review earlier communications and make sure we’re being consistent, especially with students.
5:00pm Adjourn
MAPOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING AGENDA
August 17th, 2020
12:30 – 2:00 CST/1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Zoom invite
MAPOR MOMENT of the MONTH: Our MAPOR Moment of the Month recognizes Justine for getting the fabulous newsletter out, describing our conference and call for papers in more detail.
Attendees: Ned, Lindsey, Mary, David, Kevin, Ipek, Leah, Dana, Evgenia, Justine, Sara, Stephanie
Agenda:
July minutes approved
Input on nominations for fellows and executive council https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_qeEYjY2nqwVzMFohy7LCPU598xdnNhFL6DTbMrniXg/edit#gid=2
Proposal to endorse AAPOR’s statement, rather than creating our own statement for MAPOR. AAPOR’s statement is comprehensive and all-encompassing. Ned will circulate the AAPOR statement to Council and give an opportunity to endorse and perhaps add. We will discuss and finalize at next month’s meeting.
Please respond to scheduling poll by end of this week.
Major agenda items are conference planning and finance update. Ned and Ipek will put together a draft agenda.
We’ve received 17 abstracts, which is lower than previous years. Sara will extend the deadline 2 weeks (September 4) and will increase reach out to potential participants. Sara will confirm with Tom Smith whether a 1-week extension to student paper deadline is okay. Even though we’re behind where we were last year, a last-minute push is normal. And, if we have fewer papers/sessions, it’s fine – we have strong key presentations already lined up and we can have more of a focus on those.
Conference software: two final options are Cadmium (AAPOR used) and Prestige. Had a good meeting with Prestige, big advantage is the tech support that they provide during virtual conferences. Still waiting on cost estimate. Hope to have decision made by end of this week.
Conference speakers are confirmed and have a good sense of how they will engage with the virtual interface (without knowing yet final software).
Sara, Ned, Mary, and Allison meet to discuss sponsorship. With either software platform, there are some good options for how to integrate sponsors (“commercials”, sponsoring individual sessions, etc.). The cost of an “exhibit hall” is too much, but we could schedule a “session” for a vendor or sponsor if they prefer.
For “live” sessions, we will need to identify moderators, to manage questions and discussions. Whether we have “discussants” is still up in the air. If so, might be good idea to run a training or practice session for the moderators/discussants. For poster sessions, Sara is thinking about how to engage Fellows to provide support to poster presenters.
Checking: $35,598
Savings: $45,025
Kevin received a $440 check from AAPOR for people who became members through their website. He will deposit to savings this week. And, Kevin received new list of members from AAPOR to add to our database.
For next meeting, Kevin will prepare cost scenario tied to virtual conference. Mary reported that sponsorship commitments seem to be down from last year – too early to make final prediction.
Justine will amplify the call for submissions to social media, highlighting the extended deadline. Then will add additional touches as we get closer to September 4.
Notifications/requests went out to previous sponsors last week. Mary will give 2 weeks before she follows up with non-responders.
Lindsey reviewed AAPOR presentations and sent some ideas for follow up. Two topics are identified, but will take some work with presenters to make them effective topics for a MAPOR webinar. Patrick prioritizes “practical take-aways” for our attendees. 1) How to measure Hispanic ethnicity? (build on Census presentations) and Measuring perception of discrimination (Pew experimental questions); 2) [???]
Patrick will send out a description of topics for Council review and discussion. He is prepared to go ahead with the “ethnicity” topic for the fall webinar (mid-October) but he needs to work with Census/Pew to modify their AAPOR presentation to make it more relevant for our audience.
Evgenia attended the PAPOR event in Zoom (about 20 people attended). Introductions, 2 Truths and a Lie, then small break-out rooms to play another game. It went well, and MAPOR could do something similar. Evgenia will send around a proposal/recommendation. Target on timing will be early October. In addition, we’ll do some sort of “get togethers” tied to the Conference in November.
Link to the current newsletter is posted.
Evgenia is trying to find email addresses of the Fellows to contact them regarding mentorship program. Such a list exists – Sara will post it in MAPOR drive.
Next Meeting: Annual meeting in mid-September!
Committee Composition:
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MAPOR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MONTHLY MEETING AGENDA
July 20th, 2020
12:30 – 2:00 CST/1:30 pm – 3:00 pm EST
Zoom invite
MAPOR MOMENT of the MONTH: Our MAPOR Moment of the Month recognizes Sara and the conference committee for their diligent work on the upcoming MAPOR conference, and releasing the Call for Participation last week! I’d like to also thank Patrick for taking on extra responsibility with the website.
In attendance: Ned, Lindsey, Leah, Kevin, Evgenia, Patrick, Justine, Mary, Sara, Dana, Stephanie
Agenda:
June minutes approved
Should MAPOR craft our own statement of inclusion and diversity? It’s something we believe in, and our recent conferences have focused on that. Should we align on AAPOR’s statement? If any Council members are interested, reach out to Ned.
Last year Council met in mid-September to finalize plans for conference. We should do same thing virtually this year – think about how the rest of the group can help with conference planning. (FYI, AAPOR Council meeting is September 14 & 15)
Continue to think of potential names for Exec Council and Fellow nominations.
Call for participation was distributed. Confusion about how abstracts@MAPOR.org email address works… Team will trouble shoot ☺
The Cadmium quote MAPOR received is significantly higher than AAPOR quote, but it includes features we don’t need, will look for ways to cut. Meeting/demo scheduled for Friday (7/24). Sara will try to check in with Kristin O prior to the meeting, to get feedback on AAPOR experience. Leah had several groups respond to her, but two of them are not really what MAPOR needs. Prestige is the one group with whom we’ll move forward – Leah is setting a meeting with them next Wednesday. Several Council members will join both meetings.
Conference program: Burton Reist from Census giving pedagogy hour. Evgenia, Justine, and Sara are working on organizing a session on “representation”…recorded presentations, then all presenters will come together for discussion/live Q&A. Who publishes in our academic journals? What are demographics? Leah is talking with a sociologist working in area of health disparities; Sara talking with communications professor on representation in the media; also exploring connection with Barbara Riesman (UIC) on topic of LGBTQ+ representation. Sara is excited that the virtual format is allowing this flexibility and experimentation on content.
Evgenia started list of potential university departments – should we send the call for participation to these departments? Evgenia will send emails and copy Sara.
Later will discuss Speed Networking and In Memoriam sessions.
Idea to organize presentations by topic, rather than trying to fit them together by “session”.
Idea of pairing students with Fellows/mentors to work on specific projects. We’ll work to identify mentors, will announce program at Conference, and teams have ~10 months to complete projects and present at 2021 Conference. Evgenia will draft descriptive email, and Ned will send to all Fellows to gauge interest.
Justine has content, is working on newsletter. Also working on FB and Twitter updates.
Once we have a selected conference platform and understand how it works, we can define how the different levels of sponsorship will look. Then will reach out to existing sponsors, and think about who we can add. Idea to frame sponsorships as not just supporting the conference but also supporting students/the future of social science research/etc.
How to handle vendors and a virtual “exhibit hall”?
Checking: $35,765
Savings: $45,025
Not much change in our accounts. Need to make some sort of announcement about Doris Graber contribution – wait until conference, put a note in program, and also at business meeting?
MAPOR is PCI compliant for the year.
Lindsey offered to finish reviewing the AAPOR presentations, and see if she finds anyone to recommend. The last webinar had a very technical focus; maybe use COVID as a topic?
Maybe connect with PAPOR and get input on how their Happy Hour worked. Evgenia will follow up with Bob Davis.
No other business.
Next Meeting: August 17th 2020 at 12:30 CST
Committee Composition:
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