Professional Activities
The following professional activities will be held in conjunction with the 2008 Decision Sciences Institute Annual Meeting.
Curricular Issues Miniconference
Doctoral Student Consortium
Doctoral Studies Miniconference
New Faculty Consortium
Professional and Faculty Development Program
Successful Grantsmanship Miniconference
Technology in the Classroom Miniconference
Journal editors in attendance at the meeting!
| Curricular Issues Miniconference |
The Curricular Issues Miniconference provides a forum to learn from those at the forefront of curriculum innovation and improvement, and to share experiences and lessons. Separate tracks on undergraduate, masters, and doctoral programs will offer ideas and insights for those responsible for designing, teaching, and administering business programs.
For more information concerning this miniconference, click here or please contact: |
Vijay R. Kannan
Utah State University
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| Doctoral Student Consortium |
The Doctoral Student Consortium provides a unique opportunity for doctoral students from across the U.S. and world to interact with one another and with distinguished scholars in a one-day program devoted to career development. Attendance at this consortium is by invitation based on application. All students who meet the criteria will be accepted.
For more information concerning this consortium, click here or please contact: |
Maling Ebrahimpour
Roger Williams University
bizdean@rwu.edu
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| Doctoral Studies Miniconference |
Doctoral education is at the core of academic and scholarly development. However, very little attention has been given to the promotion, dissemination, and sharing of research that specifically deals with issues of doctoral education in focus areas such as information systems, decision sciences, operations research and management, information technology, and information science. This miniconference will provide an opportunity for researchers to discuss new ideas on research conducted, or future opportunities for research, in doctoral studies related (but not limited) to the key focus areas noted above. Primarily, the Doctoral Studies Miniconference will be interested in original papers, initial research drafts, works in progress, and panel discussion proposals in these focus topics.
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| New Faculty Consortium |
The New Faculty Development Consortium deals with research, teaching, publishing, and other professional development issues for faculty who are beginning their academic careers. Attendance at this consortium is by application and is open to faculty members who have a Ph.D. degree and are in the first two years of their teaching career.
For more information concerning this consortium, click here or please contact:
New Faculty Development Consortium Co-Coordinators (Please send your application to Dr. Carper:):
William B. Carper
College of Business
University of West Florida
Pensacola, FL 32514
(850) 474-2350 F: (850) 474-2314
bcarper@uwf.edu
Carl W. Gooding
Samford University
James A. Pope
University of Toledo |
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| Professional and Faculty Development Program |
The Professional and Faculty Development Program is for Institute members in all stages of their careers, with the goal of keeping them current in their fields. The content of the sessions is designed to provide insight into the challenges and opportunities in today’s rapidly changing environment:
• Assessment in practice.
• Balancing the needs of different stakeholders in the educational process.
• Blogs in business school.
• Career path strategy.
• Cutting edge pedagogical research.
• Developing Chinese business education.
• Globalization of business education.
• How do you get the message across?
• How do you turn conference paper into journal article?
• Meeting increasing demands in teaching, service, and research.
• New instructional and research methodologies.
• Obtaining research funding.
• Online communities in academic world.
• Sustainability and management in business school.
• Teaching an integrated core curriculum
• The challenges and opportunities of new technologies.
• The role of grading and assessment.
• Transforming curriculum design and development.
In addition, the program will include a series of sessions related to research, teaching, publishing, and other professional development issues for faculty who are beginning their academic careers. Submission deadline is May 1, 2008.
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Binshan Lin
Louisiana State University in Shreveport
Department of Management
binshan.lin@lsus.edu
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| Miniconference on Successful Grantsmanship |
Develop interests and sharpen skills to write successful grant proposals
Securing external research grants is a valuable experience, or even a necessary step, because it can significantly enhance research projects. A day-long event to be held on Sunday, November 23, 2008, the Miniconference on Successful Grantsmanship is intended to help develop interests among DSI members in obtaining external research grants and to sharpen skills in writing grant proposals so that endeavors may be more fruitful. You are invited to hear expert panelists and network with like-minded researchers.
See flyer (pdf file)
For more information concerning this program, contact:
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| Technology in the Classroom Miniconference |
An expanded forum for exchanging ideas at the 2008 Annual Meeting
The Technology in the Classroom Miniconference provides a forum for participants to share novel or innovative applications of technology in the classroom that enhance the student’s learning experience. Submissions should be limited to creative approaches and best practices for using course support software, multimedia, spreadsheet software, simulation software, online tutorials, or other applications of technology, and be capable of being demonstrated and discussed within a 20-30 minute time frame. Submissions will be competitively reviewed and selected for their creativity, novelty, and contribution to pedagogy, and should not be duplications of material found in existing textbooks. Please send submissions (following the “Instruction for Electronic Submissions”) directly to the miniconference coordinators by May 1, 2008.
For more information concerning this program, please contact:
William Johnson
Bentley College
wjohnson@bentley.edu
Rupak Rauniar
University of St. Thomas
rauniar@stthom.edu
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Placement Services
The DSI Placement Services Website is open for the 2008/09 academic year.
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