Junior Faculty Consortium Co-Chairs

Call for Participation

We invite all MIS junior faculty to participate in the MIS Camp (Junior Faculty Consortium) being held in conjunction with the ICIS 2006. The consortium will meet on Sunday, December 10, 2006.

The MIS Camp consists of panel, discussion, role-playing, and other interactive sessions built around issues related to becoming a successful member of the professoriate. Each activity will be facilitated by a select group of highly successful MIS faculty from major universities. This will allow each camper to interact with a wide variety of both new and senior faculty and to share their experiences, thoughts, and concerns about starting a career in the academy.

Eligible campers include all AIS members beginning their second, third, or fourth year in an academic position in the Fall of 2006. MIS Camp has a history of success and has been lauded year after year by its attendees as a valuable and worthwhile activity. Due to space limitations, if you have attended a junior faculty consortium recently, you should not register again to allow for new colleagues to enjoy the experience.

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Gordon B. Davis is internationally known as one of the principal founders and intellectual architects of the academic field of information systems. In 1967, he and colleagues at the University of Minnesota initiated the first academic degree programs in management information systems and established the Management Information Systems Research Center (MISRC). These initiatives subsequently became models for education and research in information systems worldwide.

Dr. Davis embodies academic leadership in the fullest sense of the word. He has produced an outstanding record of scholarship, provided service contributions to very major professional society in the discipline, initiated numerous innovations in teaching and community outreach and served as a mentor to hundreds of Ph.D. students and junior faculty. He is a thoughtful, dedicated academic who was a global thinker before global was "cool." He is regarded as colleague and friend by all who have worked with him. The community of IS scholars and educators worldwide is proud to honor Professor Davis with the Leo Award for the Year 2000.

He has served as the USA Representative to the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 8 (Information Systems) and has been the chairman of TC8. He has also been an active supporter of IFIP Working Group[ 8.2., "Information Systems and Organizations." He has been involved in nearly all of the major developments in the information systems segment of the computing community, including the founding of the principal conference, the International Conference on Information Systems, and the formation of the Association for Information Systems. He was the 1998 AIS President.

His research specialties include IS planning, information requirements determination, management of knowledge work, and conceptual foundations for information systems. His book, Management Information Systems: Conceptual Foundations, Structure, and Development (1974; 1985, McGraw-Hill), is recognized as a foundational classic in the field. He has published 19 other textbooks and over 200 journal articles. He has served as the Executive Editor of MIS Quarterly and is on the editorial boards of numerous other journals.

Dr. Davis received his Ph.D. in business administration from Stanford University in 1959 and has been a member of the faculty of the University of Minnesota for more than 40 years. He is widely known as a pioneer for initiatives relating to information systems and as a persistent advocate for the global involvement of academics in the study of IT-related phenomena and issues. Throughout his career, he has reached out to students and scholars from all over the world and multiple disciplines in matters relating to information technology and its use in business and society.

Prior to his recent retirement Dr. Davis was the Honeywell Professor of Management Information Systems, an endowed chair at Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.  He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Zurich, the University of Lyon III, and the Stockholm School of Economics and has been named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

MIS Camp Counselors

A diverse group of academics have agreed to serve as counselors for this year’s event.  They come to the camp as researchers, educators, deans, department heads, research center directors, and recently promoted associate professors from across the global.

Registration

All campers must be registered for the ICIS 2006 conference. You will be able to indicate your desire to attend on the conference registration form*. The fee for this year’s Junior Faculty Consortium is $50 per camper. This fee can be paid with your conference registration. In addition to ICIS registration, we ask that you complete and return the consortium registration form available by clicking here. The completed registration form along with a copy of your current vita should be e-mailed to dhale@cba.ua.edu  no later than November 10, 2006. Those campers who can be accommodated will be notified no later than November 17, 2006.

* If you have already registered for the ICIS 2006 conference and now want to add the Junior Faculty Consortium to your registration, use the paper registration form, which is available in WORD format, and register for just the consortium and either email or fax it to the address listed on the bottom of that form.

To maintain the intimacy and richness necessary for this type of experience, registration is limited to 50 campers. Finally, to ensure continuity amongst the groups, we ask that you plan to attend the entire day from beginning to end. The camp will begin at 7:30 AM on Sunday morning and conclude by 5:00 PM with plenty of time to get freshened up for the opening reception. Plan to arrive in Milwaukee in enough time to begin bright and early Sunday morning. 

Tentative Schedule

Finally, to ensure continuity amongst the groups, we ask that you plan to attend the entire day from beginning to end. The camp will begin at 8:00 AM on Sunday morning and conclude by 4:30 PM with plenty of time to get freshened up for the opening reception.  A continental breakfast, lunch and refreshments during breaks will be provided.

We look forward to seeing you at the 2006 ICIS Junior Faculty Consortium!