[AISWorld] IS undergraduate recruiting

[Fedorowicz, Jane]

NCWIT (the National Center for Women and Information Technology) has excellent resources that are freely available. Learn more about them (and AIS's relationship with them) in this AIS Insider article:

https://ais.site-ym.com/news/221540/AIS-Collaborates-with-the-National-Center-for-Women-and-Information-Technology-NCWIT.htm



Jane Fedorowicz, PhD

Immediate Past President, Association for Information Systems

Chester B. Slade Professor of Accounting and Information Systems



Bentley University

Departments of Accountancy and Information & Process Management

175 Forest Street

Waltham, MA USA

office +1-781-891-3153

fax +1-781-891-2896



www.BentleyInvision.org

www.PublicSafetyNetworksStudy.org





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From: AISWorld [mailto:aisworld-bounces at lists.aisnet.org] On Behalf Of Jerry Flatto
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Subject: [AISWorld] IS undergraduate recruiting



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>From previous discussions on IS World, a common issue that many of us are

having is trying to recruit high school students to go into Information

Systems.  I am wondering if folks are willing to share approaches, methods,

ideas that you may have or have tried to raise awareness of the field of

Information Systems as well as potentially recruit high school students.





This past Friday, our Admissions department had a "Computer Career Day"

where prospective high school students were invited to campus to learn about

computer-related majors of Computer Science, Digital Media (through the

university's Art Department) and Information Systems.  Few prospective

students ended up attending and none of them had identified Information

Systems as their major before coming to campus. :(





>From talking to our Admissions department, our university, like many others,

uses the "College Board" to obtain marketing lists of high school students

that we then can potentially try to recruit.  The College Board does not

list "Information Systems" (or related disciplines) as a possible choice

that high school students can even select as a potential major.  Therefore,

it did not surprise me that none of the high school students who came to

campus listed Information Systems as a potential major or even was aware of

the field.





Thus, I am wondering what we can do to raise the awareness of Information

Systems among high school students in my area.  What approaches such as high

school competitions hosted on campus, brochures, speaking to high schools,

etc., have you tried to raise awareness of Information Systems?





I will share any responses provided, removing names to protect the guilty as

required.  :)





Thanks.





Jerry







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Dr. Jerry Flatto, Professor, Information Systems Department - School of

Business



University of Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

mailto:jflatto at uindy.com





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