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<div>Our degree program here at Georgia State University began in 1969, so MSU has us beat. But if the question is business-school-based courses in computing, the title goes to ULCA which offered a course in business statistics using the SWAC (octal) computer
in 1953, taught by Prof. Clay Sprowls. Eph McLean</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy; ">Ephraim R. McLean, Ph.D., FAIS<br>
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George E. Smith (GRA) Eminent Scholar's Chair<br>
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Department Chair, </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy; ">Computer Information Systems Department<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy; ">Director, </span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy; ">Center
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy; "><i>Director, </i>Center for Health Information Technology<br>
Robinson College of Business<br>
Georgia State University<br>
Atlanta, Georgia 30303<br>
E-mail: </span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "><a href="mailto:EMcLean@GSU.edu" style="color: purple; "><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; ">EMcLean@GSU.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: navy; "><br>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Gary Templeton <<a href="mailto:GTempleton@business.msstate.edu">GTempleton@business.msstate.edu</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Saturday, August 24, 2013 9:35 AM<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:aisworld@lists.aisnet.org">aisworld@lists.aisnet.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:aisworld@lists.aisnet.org">aisworld@lists.aisnet.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[AISWorld] Earliest Undergraduate Program in Information Systems in a College of Business<br>
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<div style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">AIS Colleagues,<br>
At this time, the earliest known computer-related degree program in a college of business began in 1963 at Mississippi State University.<br>
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Does anyone have information on an earlier one?<br>
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It has to be in a college of business and have a computer-based name.<br>
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I will report any earlier one that I can verify to the group.<br>
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Gary<br>
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Dr. Gary Templeton <br>
Associate Professor of MIS <br>
Management & Information Systems Department <br>
P.O. Box 9581 <br>
Mississippi State, MS 39762 <br>
Office: (662) 325-1956<br>
Dept: (662) 325-3928<br>
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