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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 Thirteenth Annual FOX IT awards on April 16, 2013 honored the following students, faculty and staff.
MIS STUDENT LEADERSHIP AWARD
Given annually to a student who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Ryan Oliveira
MIS STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Given to graduating MIS students for academic excellence.
Iris Kapo
Elias Hessler
MIS RESEARCHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Given to a faculty member for excellence in research.
Paul Pavlou
MIS FACULTY LEADERSHIP AWARD
Given to a faculty member who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Richard Flanagan
MIS TEACHER OF THE YEAR AWARD
Given to a faculty member for excellence in teaching.
David Schuff
MIS ADJUNCT OF THE YEAR AWARD
Given to a faculty member for excellence in teaching.
Dina Lichtman
MIS ADMINISTRATIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Given annually to a MIS or IBIT administrative employee for outstanding performance.
Joseph Allegra
MIS ADMINISTRATIVE LEADERSHIP AWARD
Given to an administrator who has made a significant contribution to the students and extended community of the MIS department.
Cynthia Smith
IBIT INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY LEADERS SCHOLARSHIP
Jennifer O’Malley
NIRAJ AND CARA PATEL SCHOLARSHIP
Rachael Jill Voluck
JOHN H. SHAIN SCHOLARSHIP
Paula L. Kozak
ASSOCIATION FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS (AIS) AWARDS
AIS Outstanding Officer
Czarina Agravante
AIS Outstanding Member
Gabrielle Lopez
With 50 letters of support from students and faculty, Fox School of Business Associate Professor of Management Information Systems (MIS) David Schuff was selected for this year’s Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching from Temple University.
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Professors Youngjin Yoo, Sunil Wattal, Bin Zhang, and Temple Biology Professor Rob Kulathinal were awarded a $275,000 NSF grant to study organizational genetics. This is the third NSF grant the researchers have received, since a grant from French research foundation CIGREF. In total, the research has received about $675,000 in grant funding. The organizational genetics project is titled “The structure and dynamics of generative innovations: An organizational genetics approach.”
The project will focus on how organizational ecosystems are built and evolve over time. For example, success and failure of digital products, such as smartphones, is determined by the size and scope of various apps that are built by third-party developers in the ecosystem.
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The Management Information Systems department is pleased to announce a new Business Analytics Minor in collaboration with the Fox School’s Department of Statistics. The coursework exposes students to hands-on, cutting edge tools and techniques in predictive modeling, forecasting, association mining, cluster analysis, decision trees, unstructured “big” data, sentiment analysis, and experimental design. Students will develop skills in these areas and learn to apply them, enhancing their knowledge and marketability. The Business Analytics Minor is appropriate for all business majors who want to be at the forefront of using data effectively in their discipline.
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port•fo•li•o (pôrt-fo¹lê-o´, port-) noun – The collection of materials which are representative of a person’s work: a photographer’s portfolio; an artist’s portfolio of drawings.
As an entry-level IT professional, what is in your portfolio? Besides your transcript and your diploma, what do you have to show to employers that you are going to be a successful IT professional? At Fox MIS, students show their academic and professional development success by:
MIS students start to develop a portfolio in their first MIS class and continue to receive opportunities to add to their portfolio as they progress through the curriculum. Checkpoints throughout the curriculum make sure that students stay on course to graduate with the required number of minimum points. Students receive points for participation in professional development activities and for applying academic learning to practice (e.g., internships, student organization leadership). Students showcase their achievements on e-portfolios.
The portfolio points program was started in spring 2012 by Professor Mart Doyle.
The third major revision of the MIS Community site has been finalized and deployed. The theme of this version is an intense focus on realizing the ‘community’ people-centric vision:
The MIS community site is a unique learning, collaboration, and social platform; there is no other like it. And now it is better and even closer to the community vision.
Professor Youngjin Yoo is the principal investigator on a grant from the Knight Foundation to expand Urban Apps and Maps Studio. Over the next three summers, 300 high school and college-age students will take part in a six-week program at Temple’s Urban Apps and Maps Studios, learning the basics of digital design and business skills. About a dozen will then become year-round community fellows working with the university and developers to create apps that solve the challenges of urban communities.
By integrating design, technology and entrepreneurship together with world class research at Temple in the area of humanity, social science, engineering, computer science and business, we are trying to build next generation urban leaders who can build their own solutions for the challenges that their communities are facing in our cities.
Urban Apps and Maps Studios is a university-wide program initiated last year through a grant from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration.
For more information, click here.
The Fox School’s Department of Management Information Systems hosted the second annual Management Information Systems (MIS) Academic Leadership Conference (MALC 2012) from Nov. 1-3 at Alter Hall.
Academic leaders of MIS departments across the world were invited to network and learn from others facing similar responsibilities and challenges. The format was small and highly interactive, with 70 professionals with leadership responsibility for MIS at their respective college or university in attendance. Attendees represented 53 universities, including some of the top schools in the nation.
The conference featured a keynote presentation by Joseph C. Spagnoletti, senior vice president and chief information officer at Campbell Soup Company, as well as a keynote deans’ panel led by Fox School of Business Dean M. Moshe Porat.
Temple Provost Hai-Lung Dai introduced Porat by saying:
the business school under the leadership of Dean Porat is recognized as a powerhouse of Temple University, and our MIS program is a gem of the Fox School.
University President Richard M. Englert praised the accomplishments of Fox MIS faculty and students and called MIS:
“one of the most dynamic academic disciplines,” adding that it “is an essential and powerful tool in business development and economic growth.”
The deans’ panel was titled “The Digitalization of Business Schools” and included Leonard Jessup, dean of the University of Arizona’s Eller College of Business, and Peter A. Todd, dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University in Quebec. Opportunities and threats posed by the digitalization of business schools were debated, and discussion focused heavily on online learning. “I think it’s inevitable we will have to provide all of these things online,” Porat said, stressing that online classes cannot lose quality. The panelists shared varying views. Jessup noted the importance of online classes at Arizona while Todd shared that McGill does not see much of a need for them yet. “I think it depends on the culture of the institution and the strength of the brand,” Porat added.
In the general sessions, conference presenters represented schools from Boston College to Aalto University in Finland. Each shared insight as to what their schools are doing on topics such as information systems advisory councils and best practices for MIS graduate programs. Associate professor and founding chair of Fox’s MIS Department, Munir Mandviwalla, served on the conference committee and presented at the session titled, “Where will MIS go in 2015? 2020?” Another MIS faculty member, Professor Paul A. Pavlou, chaired the session. Assistant Professor Richard Flanagan presented in the “Recruiting Strategies” session. Flanagan is the director of Fox’s new Master of Science in IT Auditing and Cyber-Security program in the MIS Department. Assistant Professor Mart Doyle and Fox IT Advisory Board Chair Bruce Fadem also moderated sessions.
The MIS Academic Leadership Conference is the only conference specifically designed for individuals responsible for leading MIS in higher education to network and learn. The conference was co-sponsored by Temple, the University of Arizona, University of Minnesota, Indiana University and University of Texas at Dallas.
For more information click on: http://ibit.temple.edu/malc2012/
