The Junior Faculty Consortium is a professional development/enrichment experience for early career-stage faculty, starting the first, second or third year of their first academic faculty appointment. The Consortium is an opportunity for junior faculty to engage with a team of senior faculty mentors through a variety of interactive exercises and activities designed to provide guidance and share insights gained over years of experience and success. The main goal of the Junior Faculty Consortium is to tap the collective wisdom of some of our most successful seasoned colleagues to help the upcoming generation set their sails toward successful and productive career journeys of their own.
Bringing together 11 senior faculty mentors and up to 25 junior colleagues, the Consortium will be anchored by the classic triad of research, teaching and service activities, but will also delve into how to achieve balance between them, while safely navigating the potentially stormy political winds that often blow up in academia. Last year’s Consortium introduced participation by senior MIS faculty who have taken leadership roles in their institutions and we carry this forward in 2016 with a mentor team representing a variety of academic career paths, programs and institutions.
The Consortium is planned to run through the morning and into the afternoon on the day before conference sessions begin. Participants will embark with mentors from a variety of institution types and career paths on a series of activities designed to align experience and guidance with common areas of interest and challenge for junior faculty as identified in their application profiles. Activities may include panels, small group discussions, and interactive exercises that will help participants fathom the mentors’ insights and perspective, both individually and collectively.
Junior faculty starting the first second or third year of their first academic appointment in the Fall of 2016 are invited to apply as participants. Please note participation in the Consortium requires full regular (not student) AMCIS registration. Breakfast, lunch and two refreshment breaks are included in the program and there is a $20 fee for the junior faculty consortium to help defray meal costs.
To apply for this year’s Consortium, please follow this link to complete and submit the application questionnaire online: Application Link
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| Timothy R. Hill Department Chair, Management Information Systems San Jose State University timothy.hill@sjsu.edu |
Tabitha L. James Associate Professor, Business Information Technology Virginia Tech tajames@vt.edu |
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| Manju Ahuja Professor and University Scholar University of Louisville |
Dinesh Batra Professor of Information Systems and Business Analytics Florida International University |
Lemuria Carter Information Systems Chair Virginia Commonwealth University |
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| Laku Chidambaram Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Engagement W.P. Wood Professor of MIS University of Oklahoma |
William Chismar Dean of Outreach College Professor of Information Technology Management University of Hawaii at Manoa |
Monica J. Garfield Associate Professor Bentley University |
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| Lakshmi Iyer Associate Professor Director Graduate Programs University of North Carolina at Greensboro |
Munir Mandviwalla Associate Professor and Chair Temple University |
Lorne Olfman Professor of Information Systems and Technology Claremont Graduate University |
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| Mohan Tanniru Professor of MIS Oakland University |
Jason Thatcher Professor & Director, Social Analytics Institute Clemson University |