<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">We have a great group of junior scholars and senior mentors coming together for this event.  Please join us in Boston on Aug 3, 2012! </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">The </span></font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Organizational Communication and Information</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Systems (OCIS) Junior Faculty Consortium, will be held in conjunction with the 2012</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Academy of Management Conference in Boston.   </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse"><br>
</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">Where:  Academy of Management</span> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Conference, Boston MA </span></font></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">When:   Friday, August 3, 8:30 am – 4:00 p.m.</span> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">(optional evening dinner) </span></font></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">Who:     All untenured faculty members or post-docs in</span> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">OCIS-related fields (Communications, Information Systems, i-School)</span></font><br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">How:     Contact Elizabeth Davidson, OCIS Division Chair Elect at</span> <a href="mailto:ocisdavidson@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(17,85,204)">ocisdavidson@gmail.com</a><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">  to sign up and for details</span></font></div>
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</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">The OCIS Junior Faculty Consortium is a daylong</span> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">professional-development workshop open to junior faculty member and post-docs in</span></font><br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">OCIS-related areas.  Attendees will have the opportunity to talk in small</span> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">group settings about research and teaching challenges and managing an</span></font><br>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">academic career with senior faculty mentors. The mentors (below) have</span> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">extensive experience as faculty members, authors and journal editors and</span></font><br>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">with grant-funded research and service to the professional community.  </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Following the consortium on Aug 4 and 5 are a variety of professional development workshops, and Aug 6-7 the Scholarly Academic Program.</span></font><br>
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</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">Attendees</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">must register for the Academy of Management Conference. There is no</span> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">additional cost for the consortium but you must pre-register with me (Liz</span></font><br>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Davidson, OCIS Division-Chair elect) at </span></font><a href="mailto:ocisdavidson@gmail.com" target="_blank" style="border-collapse:collapse;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(17,85,204)">ocisdavidson@gmail.com</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">.  Confirmation of registration and dtails on</span> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">how to prepare (it’s easy!) and what to expect (it’s fun and useful!) will be emailed to you.</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">OCIS Junior Faculty Consortium 2012 mentors:   </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">Cynthia Beath</span>:  <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Cynthia is Professor Emeritus at the McCombs School of Business,</span></font><br>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">University of Texas at Austin.  </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse"><br>
</span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">Mike Chiasson</span>:  <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Mike is Professor of Management Science at the Lancaster University</span></font><br>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Management School</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">.  </span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Paul Hart:  </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Paul is Professor and Associate Dean at Florida Atlantic University College</span></font><br>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">of Business</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">.  </span></font></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse"><br>Lynne Markus</span>:  <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Lynne is Professor of Information and Process Management at Bentley</span></font><br>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">University</span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">.</span></font><br>
<br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif">Ann Majchrzak</span>:  <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Ann is Professor of Information and Operations Management at the University</span></font><br>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">of Southern California Marshall School of Business. </span></font><br><br><br><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse">Mike Morris</span>: <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Mike is the Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Professor of</span></font><br>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Commerce at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia.  </span></font></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse"><br>Liz Davidson (consortium organizer):</span> <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Liz is a Professor and Department Chair of Information Technology</span></font><br>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse">Management at University of Hawaii.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse:collapse"><br>
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