E-AIR, the Oldest Email Newsletter in Cyberspace

The "Electronic AIR" is the single oldest, still-publishing email newsletter on the Internet. It's not just the oldest in higher education or among associations, it is the oldest period. It's been publishing regularly since October of 1987. SCUP's own "SCUP Email News" is the second oldest email newsletter on the Internet, having begun publishing one month later in November of 1987. It's no coincidence that the two began at about the same time, because the Association for Institutional Research (AIR) and SCUP share a lot of interests, and also a lot of interesting people. E-AIR is monthly, so it won't add tremendously to your inbox if you subscribe to it, which we recommend. Among items in the current issue are a Practitioner Profile of Gordon Mills, director of institutional research at the University of South Alabama; Technical Tips From the Field, this about some of the more sophisticated ways you can Google search; and the ever-amusing annual E-AIR Limerick Contest.