The iAffiliates Program

The iAffiliates Program: Benefit from iSchool Expertise

The iSchool iAffiliates Program is a strategic initiative designed to connect industry partners with iSchool faculty, research and students. iAffiliates enjoy a mutually beneficial relationship with the iSchool, engaging with the iSchool in a meaningful way, while fostering a long term relationship that will lead to information exchange and collaboration with faculty, students, alumni and other iAffiliate members. It is our goal to create a rich, multidimensional network of interaction. Working with the iAffiliates relationship manager, Andy Willmer, you will be able to develop an individualized relationship plan for your organization built around your needs. We encourage you to explore a partnership with the iSchool.

The iSchool’s iAffiliates Program has two levels; iAffiliates and Premium iAffiliates. An iAffiliate is any external organization who has sponsored one or more iSchool internships, Capstone projetcs, Ph.D. students or faculty research demonstration projects, or displays a table at the Employer Connections Fair. Membership of the iSchool Premium iAffiliates Program requires a qualifying contribution to the iSchool, or membership on one of the iSchool’s Boards. Contributions are used to further the iSchool’s teaching and research efforts.

Current Premium iAffiliates Partners

Click here for a list of our iAffiliate Partners

iSchool Research Focus

Currently the iSchool conducts research in areas such as Cyber security and Information Assurance, Information in Everyday Life, Human-Computer Interaction, Information and Literacy Access, Information Management and Knowledge Organization. The iSchool also has several centers, institutes and laboratories, including the Center for Information Assurance and Cybersecurity, Technology and Social Change and the AIM Research Group, which focuses on creating effective and useful interactive technologies that improve people’s access to and interaction with computers and information.

In 2011/12 iAffiliates benefit from:

• Attending the iSchool annual iAffiliates Day, held on the UW Campus in April each year. This event includes research presentations and the opportunity to engage in breakout discussions with faculty and students.
• Discussions with faculty about research or for advice
• Networking with other external iSchool partners
• Having access to student recruitment events
• Invitations to the iSchool’s Research Fair and Capstone Event to meet faculty and student presenters

About iAffiliates Director Mike Crandall

Mike Crandall is a Senior Lecturer in the iSchool, and current chair of the Masters of Science in Information Management program.  Prior to coming to the University of Washington, he was technology manager for the US Library program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to More...the foundation, Mike worked on search technology and knowledge organization for the intranet at Microsoft (MSWeb) and on information architecture and online library services at Boeing. He has served on the Dublin Core Metadata Board of Trustees since its inception in 2001, and is active in ASIS&T. He is interested in public access computing, ICT in developing countries, metadata and knowledge organization, social dimensions of knowledge transfer and large scale information systems.

For more information about the iAffiliates Program, please contact:

Andy Willmer
Assistant Director, Corporate & Foundation Relations
Willmer@uw.edu
(206) 543-2971