The mission of the professional school within a research university is a complex mission, and fulfilling the mission requires a diverse faculty team. Clinical faculty work in the area where theory meets and crosses over with business practice, processes and policies.

High-profile computer security breaches -- involving exposure of sensitive consumer information, uncovering of classified documents or disruption of corporate and government websites and systems – hit the news with alarming frequency.

Henry David Thoreau may have penned more than 9,300 words urging people to fight unjust governments in his essay on civil disobedience, but today's political dissidents have brought throngs to the streets with 140 characters or less. Such is the power of social media.

 A new partnership between the Phoenix chapter of the Project Management Institute and the Department of Information Systems aims to promote interest in the profession of project management and bring new insights to the field.

What does a client need to do to manage a consultant effectively? This is Assistant Professor Dawson's research interest, and later this academic year he will bring what he has discovered in his research and lived in his consulting life to a W. P. Carey MBA Evening elective course.

Several media outlets picked up news about the W. P. Carey School's Department of Information Systems recently. This month we bring you three that tell our story particularly well.

Two new faculty members joining the W. P. Carey Department of Information Systems this fall will bring expertise in critical areas of information systems that have been making headlines. Roberto J.

The information systems field has changed dramatically in the past 10 years. The education many IT managers received was weighted toward computer science, but now they are finding that their companies need something different.

The Department of Information Systems is now offering the Online MSIM -- the same challenging W. P.

Work schedules, family obligations and often simple geography often combine to make it difficult for a professional to attend graduate school.