PROMOTING IAP ACTIVITIES

Encouraging Your Colleagues to Offer IAP Activities

Getting Ideas for New Activities

Activity Suggestions

Encouraging Your Colleagues to Offer IAP Activities

• Get the Word Out! Take the initiative in asking others to lead an activity -- don't wait to be approached.
  
  
• Make announcements at meetings.
  
  
• Create posters and flyers.
  
  
• Send memos and email messages to encourage people (especially students!) to organize activities.

Getting Ideas for New Activities

• Talk to students -- not just majors, but freshmen and upperclass students from other departments as well.
  
  
• Look at the IAP 2002 Guide, available on-line:
  • IAP ‘02 For-Credit Subjects
  • IAP ‘02 Non-Credit Activities by Sponsor
  • IAP Non-Credit Activities by Category
    
    
• Meet with last year's Department Coordinator to find out what activities were most popular.
  
  
• Ask people who haven't participated in IAP recently what offerings they would like to see.

Activity Suggestions

• Suggest activities that give the MIT community an opportunity to learn more about the work of your department and to meet the people behind the scenes. Activities like these can take place in one or more informal sessions.
  
  
• Suggest offerings related to hobbies, outside interests, musical talents, travelogues.
  
  
• Ask your departmental student group or honorary society to sponsor an activity.
  
  
• Have a faculty member devise an independent project to be listed in the Guide as a department activity for students.