• 2017 Annual Meeting Sessions
• 2017 Annual Meeting Session Participants
• Other 2017 (and prior) Annual Meeting Details
• Trends for Previous Annual Meetings
• General Facts about AERA
• For Fun

2017 Annual Meeting Sessions:

• A total of 2,562 sessions are scheduled to take place during the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting.
• The 2017 Annual Meeting includes 522 paper sessions.
• The 2017 Annual Meeting includes 433 symposia.
• The 2017 Annual Meeting includes 692 roundtable sessions.
• The 2017 Annual Meeting includes 158 poster sessions, with a total of 804 posters.
• The 2017 Annual Meeting includes 219 invited speaker sessions.
• More than 75 receptions are being held as part of the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting.
• 162 business meetings are being held as part of the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting.
• More than 50 Presidential sessions are part of the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting program.
• The AERA Annual Meeting program in 2017 includes 22 sessions in Research and Science Policy Forum strand.
• The 2017 AERA Annual Meeting program includes 12 “Worldwide Emphasis Sessions” organized by associations and organizations involved in the September 2016 meeting of the Americas Education Research Associations. In addition, there are an additional 24 sessions sponsored by the World Education Research Association, the AERA International Relations Committee, and by international-aligned organizations.
• There will be 1,080 Division sessions at the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting.
• Among the Divisions, Division K has the most sessions, with 230.
• There will be 1,090 SIG sessions at the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting.
• The International Studies SIG has more sessions than any other SIG, with 25 scheduled to take place at the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting.
• 12 fireside chats are scheduled to take place during the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting. A fireside chat offers participants an open forum to discuss ideas on topics of interest to a group of professionals. The majority of fireside chats are geared toward topics of interest to graduate students.
• Excluding the words “and,” “in,” “of,” and “the,” the word that appears most often in session titles is “education,” appearing 555 times. The second most common word is “research,” appearing 381 times.

2017 Annual Meeting Session Participants:

• Over 15,200 unique individuals played a role in the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting as session organizers, chairs, discussants, presenting authors, non-presenting authors, or other session participants.
• A total of 1,701 unique individuals will be serving as session chairs at the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting.
• Over 10,900 unique individuals are serving as presenting authors at the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting.
• Nearly 875 unique individuals are serving as discussants at the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting.

Other 2017 (and prior) Annual Meeting Details:

• AERA is using a total of 31 different hotels for the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting.
• Annual Meeting sessions are taking place in the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center, the Grand Hyatt San Antonio, the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter, and the San Antonio Marriott Riverwalk in 2017.
• The exhibit hall at the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting includes 108 exhibit booths (with 72 unique organizations participating as exhibitors).
• 3,816 unique individuals served as reviewers for the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting.
• The 2017 AERA Annual Meeting will include more than 2,000 international speakers, attendees, and international affiliates, from nearly 80 non-U.S. countries.
• The AERA Online Paper Repository (http://www.aera.net/Publications/Online-Paper-Repository) is an open access clearinghouse of all scientific presentations given at AERA annual meetings since 2010. More than half include full-text papers voluntarily contributed to the repository by annual meeting presenters.
• 31 sessions at the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting will be live-streamed; the first time AERA live-streamed meeting sessions was at the 2013 AERA Annual Meeting.
• Webcasts of Presidential Addresses and Distinguished Lectures from the 2006 to 2016 Annual Meetings are available here.
• The AERA Awards Luncheon was first held at the AERA Annual Meeting in San Francisco in 2013.
• The Henry B. González Convention Center where many of the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting sessions are being held was originally built as part of HemisFair in 1968 (http://www.sahbgcc.com/About-Us/History).
• The Henry B. González Convention Center where many of the 2017 AERA Annual Meeting sessions are being held has 514,000 square feet of contiguous exhibit space with 86,500 square feet of column-free multipurpose space, over 70 meeting rooms, and 2 ballrooms which includes the largest ballroom in Texas (http://www.sahbgcc.com/About-Us/History).

Trends for Previous Annual Meetings:

• AERA’s Annual Meeting has taken place in Chicago 14 times and in Atlantic City 14 times – more times in these cities than any others.
• AERA’s Annual Meeting has taken place outside the United States five times – three times in Montreal, once in Toronto, and once in Vancouver.
• In total, AERA’s Annual Meeting has been held in 21 different cities throughout the Association’s history.
• The highest attendance ever at an AERA Annual Meeting occurred in 2008 in New York, with 17,855 attendees. The second highest was Washington, DC in 2016, with 16,182 attendees.
• The average number of attendees at AERA Annual Meetings over the past 10 years is 14,967.
• Nearly one-third (32.3%) of AERA Annual Meeting attendees in 2016 were students.
• Until 1971, the AERA Annual Meeting was held in February of each year.
• The latest in the year the meeting ever took place was the 2010 Annual Meeting in Denver, CO, which took place from April 30 to May 4.
• AERA first offered a mobile app at the 2011 Annual Meeting.
• AERA has used Twitter at the Annual Meeting since 2011.
• The cost for advance registration for AERA members to attend the 1977 AERA Annual Meeting in New York was $20. For student members it was $10. Registration for spouses was $2.

General Facts about AERA:

• AERA was founded in 1916.
• AERA has approximately 25,000 members.
• Currently, two-thirds (66%) of AERA’s members are women, up from 30% in 1975-76 when AERA first started tracking membership by demographics.
• Nearly two-thirds (65%) of AERA’s members have a Ph.D. or an Ed.D. degree.
• Among AERA’s members who are employed, three-quarters (74%) work for a college or university.
• Students comprise 31% of AERA’s members.
• Divisions A, B, C, D, and E were established in 1964. Division F (History & Historiography) was established in 1968. Division G (Social Context of Education) and Division H (Research, Evaluation, & Assessment in Schools) were established in 1970. Division I (Education in the Professions) was established in 1978. Division J (Postsecondary Education) was established in 1980. Division K (Teaching & Teacher Education) was established in 1984. And, Division L (Educational Policy & Politics) was established in 1996.

For Fun:

• Helium balloons are not permitted in the Convention Center, but air filled balloons are welcome.
• Glitter is not allowed in any area of the Convention Center.