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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear Colleagues:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The Midwest United States Association for Information Systems (MWAIS) is a Chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) serving Midwest US members of AIS.
The states served by this Chapter include Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. The goal of the Chapter is to promote the exchange of ideas, experiences, and knowledge among
scholars and professionals in the Midwest US engaged in the development, management, and use of information and communications systems and technology. To learn more about MWAIS activities, please visit our Web site:
</span><a href="http://www.mwais.org"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.mwais.org</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> and/or MWAIS Conference Proceedings site:
</span><a href="http://aisel.aisnet.org/mwais/"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://aisel.aisnet.org/mwais/</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The MWAIS executive committee is seeking expressions of interest via email
<span style="color:navy">to</span> Martina Greiner (<a href="mailto:mgreiner@mail.unomaha.edu">mgreiner@mail.unomaha.edu</a>) or Gaurav Bansal (<a href="mailto:bansalg@uwgb.edu">bansalg@uwgb.edu</a>) for hosting the 10th or a future MWAIS meeting to be held
in 2015 or beyond. The meeting is generally held during the second or third week in May for a day and a half. Hosting this meeting is a great way to showcase your university, programs, and city while networking with colleagues in the Midwest region and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The 2014 MWAIS conference will be hosted by the College of Business, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.business.iastate.edu/events/mwais">http://www.business.iastate.edu/events/mwais</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Past MWAIS conferences have been great successes, hosted by:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2013 – School of Information Technology and College of Business, Illinois State University – Normal, Illinois.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2012 – Austin E. Confrin School of Business, University of Wisconsin – Green Bay, Green Bay, Wisconsin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2011 - College of Information Science and Technology, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2010 -
<span style="color:black">School of Business, Minnesota State University Moorhead, Moorhead, Minnesota.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2009 - College of Business and Information Systems, Dakota State University, Madison, South Dakota.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2008 – College of Business, University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, Eau Claire, Wisconsin.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2007 – College of Business and Management, University of Illinois Springfield, Springfield, Illinois <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">2006 – Seidman College of Business and Padnos College of Engineering and Computing at Grand Valley State University, Grand Valley, Michigan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Rassule Hadidi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Department of MIS <br>
University of Illinois Springfield <br>
217-206-7294 <br>
<u><span style="color:blue"><a href="mailto:hadidi.rassule@uis.edu">hadidi.rassule@uis.edu</a></span></u><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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