Fellowship Selection by an Independent Review Panel

No. Fellowship Review service and Fellowship are separate. Serving confers no eligibility, preference, or presumption of approval should you later apply, and a sitting reviewer who applies would be reviewed by a panel excluding themselves.

Yes, provided they independently meet the reviewer qualification standard. Ambassador status itself confers no advantage in Panel selection.

Assignments arrive in review cycles rather than continuously, and volume is managed through panel rotation. Reviewers complete their evaluations within the cycle deadline.

No. Fellowship Review service is honorary and unpaid, and reviewers are never compensated by outcome.

No. There is no service fee to serve on the Panel.

Your name, title and organization appear in the conferral letter of every Fellow you help confer. A reviewer certificate for each calendar quarter in which you complete at least one Fellowship review, your reviewer card, and your reference letter are part of the optional annual Reviewer Package, available for $99 once appointed.

Reviewers are appointed for one-year terms. You may resign at any time by writing to the Institute; we ask that you complete any review already assigned to you, or tell us promptly so it can be reassigned within the cycle.

On recognized standing in a relevant technical discipline and on prior experience evaluating the work of others — peer review, editorial or program committees, competition judging, standards bodies, hiring panels, or academic assessment. Appointment is by the Institute's officers. Panel selection is separate from Fellowship, and neither confers the other.

You disclose it and recuse yourself from that review. This applies to employment, collaboration, supervision, close personal relationships, and any commercial interest. Disclosure and recusal are mandatory rather than discretionary, and they are recorded — a recusal is a normal part of a working panel, not a mark against you.

Reviewers may come from anywhere, but no panel may be constituted such that a single employer or organization holds a majority of its seats. The cap is written into the Bylaws so that no one organization can shape a determination through composition alone.

An independent assessment of the four categories the applicant claimed, plus an Overall Fellowship Assessment worth twice a category score, and reasons for your conclusion referencing those categories. Reasons are recorded with the determination and retained by the Institute. Reviews arrive in cycles rather than continuously, with a stated deadline.

No, not at any point. Each reviewer scores the four categories the applicant claimed, plus an Overall Fellowship Assessment, independently, and recommendations are never reconciled into a group position afterward either — there is no deliberation stage. Fellowship is conferred once at least three of the five reviewers independently recommend approval.

Score it as you see it. Reviewers do not deliberate or negotiate a shared position — each recommendation is submitted independently, and conferral needs at least three of the five, so a minority position is a real, recorded outcome rather than a formality. The tally is disclosed to a conferred applicant, who will see that the decision was 3–2 rather than unanimous. Record your reasoning either way; it is retained with the file.

No. The Institute prepares files, convenes panels, distributes evidence, and records outcomes. It holds no vote in any determination and cannot reverse one. Its role ends at administration — that is the whole point of constituting the Panel separately.

Yes. Reviewers serve on the record, and the roster — names, credentials, and biographies — is published before a review cycle opens, so applicants know who may assess their work before deciding whether to apply.

Each application arrives with a written brief and the published evidence categories, including the qualifying and generally-insufficient examples under each. Those examples are public on the Fellowship page, so applicants and reviewers are working from the same document rather than from a private internal standard.

No. Fellowship Review service has no membership prerequisite of any kind. What is required is recognized expertise in your category and demonstrable experience assessing others' work. A sitting reviewer who later applies for Fellowship would be reviewed by a panel excluding themselves.

AIITE verifies your professional standing and reviewing experience and checks for conflicts with active applicants, typically within 1-2 weeks. Successful candidates are then appointed to the published roster and begin receiving assignments with the next cohort.