2010 ISECON / CONISAR Conferences
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October 28 to 31, 2010
Nashville Tennessee
Welcome to ISECON/CONISAR 2010
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We are excited to be in Nashville TN this year and having you as part of
this year’s conference.
It is has been a busy and challenging year for EDSIG as we continue our
initiatives on our primary mission of ‘IS Educators helping other IS
Educators’ to improve their instructional abilities and increase the
quality of their research. For many of us, ISECON and CONISAR is a place to
recharge our batteries and get some new insights into the way things could
be. Besides the conference EDSIG has been working with AITP and FITE to
work together to increase the quality of our graduates and our programs.
We said goodbye to Albert Harris who was the editor of JISE (Journal of
Information Systems Education). We thank Albert and Jackie’s for their
years of dedicated service to all of us, well done. We welcomed Susan
Kruck, the new editor of JISE, who has stepped right into the new position
and has already demonstrated her talent.
We are also saying goodbye and thank you to Don Colton, the founding editor
of ISEDJ and JISAR as well as the proceedings editor for both
ISECON/CONISAR. Don was
instrumental in the establishment of these online journals and getting them
referenced by Cabell’s. A
person of Don’s talents cannot be filled by one person and we will be
replacing Don with several new editors.
A key focus of this conference is the new IS 2010 model curriculum and how
EDSIG can contribute to extension and assessment areas of the model
curriculum. As you may be award
EDSIG and AITP was a major contributor to prior model curriculums.
We are working hard to overcome the barriers that prevented us from
being a contributor to the current edition and already have identified
areas of focus that we can contribute to the next version.
We need your creativity and input to enable us to return to being a
partner of the next model curriculum Thank you to Al Harris, Paul Leidig,
Bruce White and the AITP executive director for their extraordinary efforts
with this endeavor.
A conference of this size is the work of many individuals. We (the EDSIG
board) would like to thank the following leaders of the conference who work
tirelessly to help all of us improve our research capabilities. Kevin
Jetton is the conference meeting planner and works tirelessly to insure
your experience is first class. Wendy Ceccucci our ISECON/CONISAR chair has
lead the effort for more of us to come to Nashville and insure the program
is not only a learning conference but a conference you want to come back to
again. George Nezlek spearheaded our second graduate symposium on Thursday.
The papers, panels, workshop and case teams work hard to insure higher
quality papers each year. Special thanks to Scott Hunsinger, Li-Jen Shannon
and Mike Smith to assist the effort in 2010. Our second class of EDSIG
fellows will be welcomed on Friday. Thank you Pat Sendall for making this a
great recognition for our fellows. We are always looking for more
volunteers, so please step up with your unique talents.
Finally, put Wilmington North Carolina on your calendar for November 3 to
6, 2011. The conference will feature more research presentations, and
optional: riverboat trips, trips to the Atlantic Ocean (8 miles from the
hotel) and visit to the USS North Carolina.
Thank you for giving me the honor of being your president for the past two
years.
Tom Janicki,