April Award Travelship Application

        The Visitor Studies Association April Award
        Travelship will be presented for the third time at the
        annual Conference in Chicago in 1999. The
        travelship was established to assist junior VSA
        members to attend to their first Visitor Studies
        Conference. The 1999 Award will be a waiver of the
        registration fee for the 1999 VSA conference.

        Because student members have their own VSA
        travel fund, they are not eligible to apply for the April
        Award. Preference will be given to applicants who
        live outside the conference area and who provide
        evidence of financial need in order to attend the
        Conference.

        Selection of the recipient will be based on
        information submitted to the April Award
        Committee on this form. To apply, please complete
        this form (or a copy aslo availible at www.museum.msu.edu/vsa/),
         attach a succinct descriptive letter and your support letter,
         and mail to Marilyn G. Hood, 3310 Somerford Rd. , Columbus OH
        43221-1418, by April 1, 1999. The committee will
        evaluate responses to each question on the basis
        of the applicants professional potential to contribute
        to the field of museum audience
        research/evaluation. The recipient will be notified by
        May 3, 1999.

        Name:
        Title:
        Institution:
        Telphone:
        FAX:
        Email address:
        VSA Member (current dued paid): _ Yes _ No
        Number of years in research/evaluation field:
        Have you attended previous VSA Conferences?
        Years:

        Please write a one to two page letter providing the
        following information:

     1.Identify the areas of the audience
        research/evaluation field that you would like to
        explore at the Visitor Studies Conference, and tell
        how attending the Conference could develop your
        personal and professional career goals and enrich
        the perspectives you bring to your work in audience
        research or evaluation.
     2.Select an issue or trend in the museum field and
        explain how audience research or evaluation could
        be applied to it.
     3.Describe an issue or trend in audience research or
        evaluation and tell where you would like to see it go
        in the future.
     4.Identify anything you have already accomplished in
        the audience research/evaluation field.

        Please include a support letter from someone who
        knows your work (museum director, immediate
        supervisor, VSA member).

        Questions? Telephone Dr. Hood at 614/451-5958

                  Deadline is April 1, 1999

*For more information about the Visitor Studies Association, the 1999 VSA
conference or the April Award Travelship visit www.museum.msu.edu/vsa/

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