Submitted April 28, 2008, 10:28 AM
What is your status with the AHA?
member for 11 to 15 years
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To how many scholarly associations do you pay membership dues?
What is your blogging status?
Have you interviewed (either as interviewer or interviewee) at the AHA convention?
What is your experience with job search committees?
What is your age?
What is your gender?
What is your race or ethnicity?
What is the highest degree you have obtained?
If applicable, how many years have you spent teaching history?
If applicable, how many years did you spend on the job market trying to obtain full-time employment?
If applicable, how many years ago did you receive your PhD?
If applicable, how many years have you spent working in public history?
For whom or what do you work?
What is your field/subject/discipline?
What is your geographical area of historical specialization?
What is your annual income?
The AHA leads the historical profession.
The AHA does more advocacy for the historical profession than any other organization.
The AHA does a good job of defining ethical and professional standards.
The AHA does a good job of disseminating information about best practices in the field of history.
The AHA does enough to preserve primary sources for historical research.
The AHA does a good job of publicizing historical research.
The AHA does a good job of revising its Constitution and Bylaws.
The AHA Council is doing a good job.
The AHA's Professional Division is doing a good job.
The AHA's Teaching Division is doing a good job.
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The AHA staff are doing a good job.
The American Historical Review is the best journal in the field of history.
The Perspectives magazine provides excellent news about the historical profession.
The AHA runs an excellent convention each year.
The AHA does a good job of providing information about the various careers available to historians.
The AHA does a lot of work with other historical organizations to advocate for the rights of historians.
The AHA awards plenty of prizes, fellowships, and awards.
The AHA publishes useful materials for history teachers.
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The AHA superbly supports the National History Day program.
The AHA has become too big.
The AHA will never succeed in serving all types of historians.
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Most historians take the AHA for granted.
The AHA is essentially a provider of information.
Membership in the AHA is a waste of money for most historians.
Joining the AHA will help your career.
The AHA does little more than run an annual conference and publish a magazine and journal.
The AHA has the power to reform the Job Market.
The AHA has little to no power.
The AHA should spend more time lobbying Congress.
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The AHA cannot change our profession.
The AHA cannot change how the historical profession is treated by the government.
AHA membership has increased over the last decade.
The AHA will never succeed at recruiting large numbers of new members as long as it has no official membership committee.
The AHA should make the recruitment of "high school and community college teachers, public historians, and members of state and local history societies" its highest priority.
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The AHA should recruit and strengthen its relationship with affiliated societies.
As the OAH and AHA compete for new members, they will find it harder to work together.
Historians with tenure should pay the most for AHA membership and conference registration.
The AHA convention should be fully wireless.
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Research will always be the emphasis of at least 90 percent of the sessions at the annual AHA convention.
The AHA should help create an academic jobs wiki that cannot be deleted or vandalized.
Shaming departments that fail to follow AHA guidelines in the hiring and interview process is a much better idea than having the AHA punish or sanction these departments.
The AHA should gather daily updates about the progress of job search committees and broadcast this information through mass e-mails to job applicants.
The AHA cannot prevent departments from booking a hotel room at the AHA convention and holding interviews that are not reported to the Job Register.
The AHA should serve as the "gatekeeper and authority" for digital media in history.
The AHA could never attract history bloggers to its web site like the History News Network has done.
The AHA should create "gated discussion forums for members on specialized subjects."
The AHA web site should become an archive, portal, and search engine for history blogs.
The AHA should ask history doctoral programs to provide full disclosure of their attrition rate, placement rate, years to degree, and information about where their students end up working after graduation on their departmental web site.
If history doctoral programs won't reveal their attrition, graduation, and placement rates to the AHA, then the AHA should use the Freedom of Information Act to obtain this information.
The AHA should tell history doctoral programs how many many students they should admit annually, in order to eliminate the oversupply problem in the job market.
The AHA should fight harder against elitism in the history profession.
The AHA is doing enough to fight against discrimination in the historical profession.
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The leadership of the AHA will become more representative of history teachers and public historians as the AHA recruits more members in these areas.
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The AHA should make the pursuit of social justice part of its mission statement.
The Teaching Division of the AHA should do more to promote the scholarship of teaching and learning.
The AHA cannot hope to win over high school history teachers who participate in the OAH.
The AHA should sponsor regional conferences for teachers.
The AHA should do more to lobby for required history courses in K-12 and college curriculum.
The work of the AHA's Teaching Division will always be a lower priority than the work of the AHA's Professional and Research Divisions.
AP history teachers will never buy the argument that they should come to the AHA convention to learn how to teach.
The AHA should spend its money on a new headquarters.
The AHA should create a major endowment that will secure its financial future.
The AHA could do much more to bring the profession's production of history and the nation's consumption of history into closer alignment.
Now that we have entered the digital age, where e-mails have replaced letters and are easily deleted by government officials, the AHA should work more closely with archivists to meet the new challenges of preserving the historical record.
The AHA should partner with public historians and offer a summer institute for academically-trained historians who want to retool and receive training on how to apply their skills outside academia.
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