The first meeting of the AIS Special Interest Group on Program Assessment and Accreditation (SIG PAA) was held in San Francisco, CA at the annual AmCIS meeting. The SIG PAA group is led by George Kasper (Virginia Commonwealth University), Carolyn Jacobson (Mount St. Mary’s University), and Rick Mathieu (James Madison University). 
The mission of SIG PAA is to promote and advocate quality IS programs by:
- Sharing best practices associated with IS program assessment
- Serving as a collaborative voice for IS accreditation standards, curriculum and processes in the international IS community
- Promoting scholarship of IS assessment
- Promoting the benefits of accreditation and assessment in the information systems discipline
- Advocating AIS membership and AIS-sponsored conference attendance for faculty in IS accredited programs
- Encouraging AIS members to become program evaluators with the responsibility of evaluating programs being reviewed for accreditation.
For more information see the SIG PAA web site: http://cis.mscd.edu/sigpaa/index.shtml
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Competitive Intelligence
Dr. Rick Mathieu will offer an undergraduate course (CIS/IA 210) in competitive intelligence in Spring 2009. The course is part of the newly developed Information Analysis program at James Madison University. The purpose of the course is to introduce students in the IA program to the business and technological concepts that will permit them to apply their analysis skills in a business environment.
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Tagged with competitive intelligence, information analysis, Teaching.
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November 19, 2008
The CyberCity Technology Summer Program at James Madison University was awarded the 2008 ABET President’s Award for Diversity. CyberCity, developed by CIS faculty members Dr. Tom Dillon and Dr. Harry Reif together with Business Law faculty member Dr. Daphyne Thomas, was presented the award for “the development and operation of a successful hands-on, project-based university campus summer program for underrepresented high school students and their teachers that increases awareness of information technology skills and careers and enhances the students’ aspirations for a college education.” The ABET President’s Award for Diversity is presented to recognize U.S.-based educational units, individuals, associations, and firms for extraordinary success in achieving diversity and inclusiveness or for facilitating diversity and inclusiveness in the technological segments of our society.
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November 18, 2008
TechRepublic, an online trade publication and social community for IT professionals owned by CBS Interactive, selected James Madison University’s undergraduate Computer Information Systems program as one of the Top Ten Undergraduate Information Technology programs in the United States. The criteria used by TechRepublic included curriculum, cost value analysis, student/faculty ratio, percentage of faculty with Ph.D., placement, internships, computer labs and overall strength of program.
Other schools in the top 10 include: Brigham Young University, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Penn State University, Temple, University of Arizona, University of Illinois, University of Maryland and Virginia Tech. Click here for the full TechRepublic report.
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Tagged with CIS, ranking, TechRepublic, Uncategorized.
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November 18, 2008
