EditWelcome to the AIS Enrollment Wiki!
On this wiki we hope to have a running commentary about the enrollment crisis in Information Systems. Some of us believe that this is the biggest threat to our field. It also represents a significant threat to organizations who cannot fill positions.
We have five initiatives:
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I'd like everyone that is doing well with their enrollment to post their best practices on this page that will also be seen in site.
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here to access some of the material we've used at Baylor to increase our IS enrollment.
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EditCurriculum (are we offering what is being demanded?) (Edited by Ilze Zigurs)
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Other news: AIS is sponsoring the
development of a Second Life site, thanks to the efforts of Geoff Hubona. We will make an announcement when we are ready for visitors.
otimização de sites We have purchased half of an island and Georgia State has purchased the other half. The idea is to provide several things, including:
1. A place for high school and college students to explore IS careers and undergraduate and graduate program materials. Eventually we will have a center, a link to our lists of
web page programs on AISWorld, and a place where sponsoring schools can place teleportation kiosks to go to their islands, like .
2. A large meeting room that can be reserved by AIS members as well as one or more smaller rooms.
3. A "sandbox" facility for AIS members to experiment and learn how to build in Second Life.
EditNew Student Brochure
Please send any comments you might have to Dennis Galletta at galletta@katz.pitt.edu. The latest PDF version of the brochure is available at
PDF version of Brochure. If you wish to have the original Publisher version, you can get it at this link:
Publisher File version of Brochure.
Feel free to download
tips, insert your school's name/address in the designated area, and print/distribute.
EditNEW: New Book for increasing the interest of girls in IT
Doctoral Consortium 2008 student Jenine Beekhuyzen (from Australia) has co-authored a book with Rebecca Dorries entitled
'Tech Girls are Chic! ' like
acompanhantes sp . You can see by the cover that it is indeed intended for young people (12-16 years old). The book has a website at
www.techgirlsarechic.org, complete with videos of women in IT-related careers.
You'll recognize ".org" as a signal of a non-profit organization. This is certainly a good cause.
EditGeneral presentations about this problem
Galletta, Dennis "If We Rebuild IT Will they Come Back?" Keynote presentation at CNAIS and Microsoft Academic Days cruise November 2007, available here http://galletta.business.pitt.edu/galletta/presentations/IfWeReBuildITWillTheyCome.ppt
Panko Ray "IT Employment Prospects: Beyond the Dotcom Bubble," based on
'EJIS'
term paper, , July 2008 available here http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/My%20Publications/IT%20Employment%20Prospects.ppt|http://panko.shidler.hawaii.edu/My%20Publications/IT%20Employment%20Prospects.ppt