Award-Ranking

Sondra L. Barbour, FOX MIS alum and Executive Vice President, Information Systems & Global Solutions, Lockheed Martin was named to Fortune’s list of Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Business worldwide for 2013.  Barbour is also the recipient of the 2005 Fox information technology award for distinguished alumni and serves as Executive-in-Residence for the Fox School’s Institute for Business and Information Technology.

Professor Youngjin Yoo was honored as faculty of the game during the Temple Owls homecoming game on October 19, 2013 in front of about 25,000 fans.

Dr. Yoo is Irwin L. Gross Senior Research Fellow and the Director of Center for Design+Innovation. The recipient of more than $3.5 million dollars in research funding, Dr. Yoo has worked with internationally recognized companies including Samsung Electronics, American Greetings, Moen, NASA and Anderson Consulting. His research interests include digital innovation, design, and experiential computing. He was appointed senior editor of MISQ (the number 1 journal in MIS) in May 2013.

Professor Yoo’s most recent research includes a project with Ola Henfridsson titled “The Liminality of Trajectory Shifts in Institutional Entrepreneurship” which was just accepted for publication in Organization Science. The paper is a field study of 8 years of working with Saab in their attempts to integrate Android in their car.

FOX MIS students (again) swept the 2nd Annual AIS International Competition receiving first, second or third place in the categories they entered. The competition was held as part of the 2013 Walmart IT Summit and AIS Student Chapter Conference, Bentonville, Arkansas, April 18-20, 2013. Read more…

The Association for Information Systems, and the AIS Student Chapters Awards Committee, has once again awarded Temple AIS with the Outstanding Chapter Award for the 2011/2012 academic year. This is the third consecutive year that Temple AIS has received this award from AIS, out of 75 AIS student chapters in North America and around the world.

The notable accomplishments for Temple AIS include:

• Significant growth to about 150 members
• Successful launch of exciting real world consulting: IT Services
• Dominant performance in the 2012 International AIS Competition (winning two 1st place finishes and a 2nd place finish out of four competition tracks)
• Expansion of community service initiatives
• Outstanding industry speaker series and the addition of a weekly IT workshop program for student members
• The best ‘social season’ yet, with well attended monthly events that included rock climbing, paintball, bowling, and dinner events

The current officers of AIS include:

• Ryan Oliveira, President
• Scott Raff, VP Operations
• Czarina Agravante, VP Finance
• Roman Nicholas, VP IT Services

100% of the students who graduated the Fox School’s Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) Major in Management Information Systems (MIS) in Spring 2012 have been placed in excellent jobs!

• 46% accepted jobs with titles that include analyst, consultant, or leadership
• 79% had a GPA above 3.0
• $52,735 average salary, $55,000 median
• Comcast, Deloitte, JP Morgan Chase, and Vanguard hired more than one student
• 25% went into the pharmaceutical / health-care industry, 18% into financial services, and 18% into consulting

The Master of Science in Information Technology Auditing and Cyber-Security (ITACS) at the Fox School of Business is aligned with the curriculum set forth by ISACA, the international governing organization for IT assurance that designs and awards the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) certification.

Officially aligning with the organization responsible for the CISA designation is important, ITACS Director Richard Flanagan said. One great benefit is that graduates of Temple’s ITACS program are required only two years of work experience before they can earn their CISA designation from ISACA, instead of the usual five years.

“It’s a big deal,” Flanagan said. “Information systems have become increasingly important to businesses, and firms sometimes spend more on information systems staff than any other department. What students are learning at Fox is what ISACA thinks they should be learning.”

The ITACS program began in January 2012. For 10 months, students from around the world learn to assess, manage and control IT risks while preparing for the CISA exam.

The strengths of the ITACS program and its faculty benefit undergraduate students, too. It was with the help of Flanagan that Kazuhiko Koyanagi, a management information systems and accounting double major, won a $2,500 Fall 2011 tuition scholarship from the Philadelphia chapter of ISACA for his essay, “Secure Mobile Device Management in This Information-Driven Era.” Koyanagi was recognized for the accomplishment in June 2012.

In addition, the ITACS program is now recognized by the U.S. government as a Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) degree, which means that international students are granted 17 additional months of Optional Practical Training, which allows them to work at U.S. firms without needing a special visa.

“Our international students can now work for almost two and a half years for an American company before needing sponsorship,” Flanagan said.