Junior Faculty Consortium

 The ICIS 2021 Junior Faculty Consortium (JFC) will focus on research, teaching, and service activities, including how to achieve balance in these activities and navigate the challenges of academia.

In addition to senior faculty mentors, the JCF will host approximately up to 55 junior faculty. A major focus of the JFC is to allow junior faculty to interact with respected, experienced senior faculty leaders, and administrators.  In addition to facilitating interaction between junior and senior faculty, the topics and exercises during the JFC Camp will be organized to allow the senior faculty leaders to provide inputs on key lessons learned from their own careers. This input can help shape, focus, and inform discussions of critical issues to junior faculty.

The program will consist of a series of interactive activities combined with small group discussions with senior faculty members about how to achieve goals and expectations, break through barriers, and deal with unexpected challenges, as well as how to balance goals and expectations with personal lives, and how to find mentorship and guidance along the way. There will also be two panel sessions (promotion and tenure; Senior Editors and Editors in Chief). The JFC tentative schedule is available below.

The main goal of the JFC is to offer all participants insights into the academic career that can help them be valuable, marketable, and successful in their career from their own perspective, and that of their university and the academy.  Prospective participants will be required to apply for participation. Criteria for participation in the JFC will include faculty who:

1. Have a completed Ph.D.;
2. Are an untenured faculty in an academic position in the Fall of 2021; and,
3. Have registered for the conference as an AIS member and a regular participant.

The JFC camp will provide a working lunch and refreshment breaks.