Professor Marie-Christine Martin has been awarded the 2022 Fox School Experiential Learning Award, Tier 2, for her course MIS3535: Lead Global Digital Projects. The course was recognized for its semester-long, live client-facing project. Recent clients have included nonprofits such as the Sexual Violence Prevention Association (SVPA), The Reflect Organization, and The Greater Sum Foundation.
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Congratulations to the 2022 MIS scholarship recipients
Congratulations to this year’s MIS scholarship recipients.
Richard J. and Maureen Brennen Endowed Scholarship
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Yusuf G. Mandviwalla Endowed Scholarship
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Bill and Jean Devaney Endowed Scholarship
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Ron and Ronda Riddell Endowed Scholarship
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James and Andrea Stewart Endowed Scholarship
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IT Leaders Scholarship
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MIS faculty awarded promotions
Professors Amy Lavin and Laurel Miller have been promoted to Associate Professor of Practice.
Professor Lavin has won numerous awards for her teaching, including the MIS Full-Time Teacher of the Year, Full-Time MBA Faculty Member of the Year, Fox Business Honors Faculty Member of the Year, and MS DIM Faculty Member of the Program. She was also a Dean’s Teaching Fellow and an Honors Teaching Fellow. Her program leadership includes serving as Academic Director of the MS in Digital Innovation in Marketing and as Assistant Academic Director for the Online MBA and BBA programs. Lavin has authored several Ivey case studies and her research in online learning has appeared in pedagogical journals and numerous conference proceedings.
Professor Miller teaches in the undergraduate and graduate programs, including the MS in Digital Marketing, the Fox MBA, and the Fox Executive MBA programs. She won the MIS Full-Time Teacher of the Year award. In addition, Miller has made numerous contributions to MIS students’ professional development and industry engagement as co-manager of the Professional Achievement Program (PRO) and Director of the Institute for Business and Information Technology. Through IBIT, she is responsible for many events that connect students with alumni and the larger IT community, including the IT Career Fair and the annual IT Awards.
Congratulations to our 2022 graduates!
Temple AIS wins Distinguished Student Chapter award
Temple AIS, the MIS Student Professional Organization, was selected as a Distinguished Student Chapter for 2021. The Distinguished Student Chapter Award is the second-highest honor given to an AIS student chapter. It is given to chapters “that have excelled in most of the areas of emphasis: professional development, membership, careers in IS, community service, fundraising, and communications..”
Temple AIS was recognized at the virtual 2022 AIS Student Chapter Leadership Conference on April 9, 2022.
This means back-to-back wins for Temple AIS! Last year Temple AIS won the Student Chapter of the Year for 2020, the highest honor awarded to an AIS Student Chapter. Learn more about the awards and past winners.
See the 20th Anniversary MIS and IBIT photobook!
Celebrating 20 years of MIS and the Institute for Business and Information Technology
Mandviwalla wins university award for distinguished faculty service
Professor Munir Mandviwalla has been awarded the Stauffer Award for Distinguished Faculty Service for 2021-2022. The award is administered by the Temple University Alumni Association and “recognizes outstanding faculty service and seeks out those faculty members whose service extends beyond the classroom and University community.”
Specifically, the selection committee cited professor Mandviwalla’s “numerous contributions to the Management Information Systems Department and the Institute for Business and Information Technology, an extraordinary role model for industry and academic engagement.”
“It is impossible to overstate the service contributions Dr. Mandviwalla has made to the Fox School, Temple University, and the field of management information systems,” said professor David Schuff, Chair of the MIS Department, “He is an institution-builder and a transformative leader. His more than 25 years of outstanding leadership is an example of how faculty should serve their institution and its students.”
Join us for the 20th Annual IT Awards on April 14
Register by April 6. Join us on April 14.
March 2022 – Chair’s Message
As we continue the return to normal, I am proud to feature the outstanding accomplishments of our faculty, staff, and students. I am also excited to share that we will be finishing the celebration of the Temple MIS Department’s 20th anniversary that began in Fall 2019. On April 14, the Institute for Business and Information Technology and the MIS Department will host the 20th Annual Information Technology Awards.
We begin by highlighting several significant achievements of our faculty. First, Temple MIS faculty were among the most prolific in the world once again in 2021, according to the Association for Information Systems’ List of High-Quality Journals. Professors Jason Thatcher, Min-Seok Pang, and Detmar Straub are featured individually on that list. This accomplishment reflects the strong, intellectually diverse group we have built at Temple.
Second, two of our faculty have been recognized as leaders in our field by the Association for Information Systems (AIS). Professor Taha Havakhor recently received the AIS Early Career Award and professor Munir Mandviwalla received the AIS Technology Challenge Award.
We also profile the research of professor Leila Hosseini, who studies how organizations can control their costs in cloud and mobile advertising.
Our students are also doing great things. Read about how our student-led Optimize Consulting Group provides IT consulting services to local non-profits. Learn how our students are helping the community while learning valuable real-world skills.
I am also delighted to share stories of our excellent alumni. Learn how Noah Mercado (BBA ’16) used the foundation he received while at Temple to succeed in his current role as Cloud Solutions Architect at Google. Also, discover how Czarina Agravante (BBA ’13) uses her Temple MIS education to design digital customer experiences at Comcast. We also profile two recent Master of Information Technology Auditing and Cyber Security alumni, Megan Hall (MS ’21) and Vanessa Marin (MS ’21). Read about how the program helped both advance their careers. Finally, we are proud of our first Ph.D. graduate John D’Arcy (Ph.D. ’05), who was recently appointed senior editor for MIS Quarterly, the top journal in the field of MIS.
I look forward to seeing everyone at this year’s IT Awards in April as we celebrate our success, once again and at long last, in person!
Temple MIS again tops list for research productivity
Temple MIS faculty continued to be the among most prolific in the world in 2021 according to the Association for Information Systems’ List of High-Quality Journals, specifically MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, the Journal of Management Information Systems, and the Journal of the Association for Information Systems.
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Temple faculty published in those four journals 19 times in 2021. Two Temple MIS faculty were featured in the list: Jason Thatcher, Milton F. Stauffer Professor, was #2 in the world and Min-Seok Pang, Associate Professor and Milton F. Stauffer Research Fellow, was #14 in the world.
“I’m excited that once again Temple University tops this list,” says MIS chair David Schuff. “It reflects the excellent research culture we’ve built within the MIS Department and throughout the Fox School of Business,” he says.
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Temple was also the most frequently published institution in those journals during the last three years, with 47 publications from 2019 to 2021. During that time, in addition to Thatcher and Pang, professor Detmar Straub also appears on the list.
Pang, who studies strategic IT management in the public sector, remarked on the strength and intellectual diversity of the group, “It’s great to be part of a team that has accomplished so much. We have varied research interests and that creates many opportunities for collaboration.”
“I appreciate being in an environment that values and supports research. We celebrate each other’s achievements.,” says Thatcher, who studies workforce issues related to technology use in organizations and is the MIS Ph.D. concentration adviser, “We have a strong set of faculty and top-flight doctoral students.”