Finding your footing immediately after graduation can be a daunting task, but Katie Golen moved gracefully from classroom to career. Golen (BS Computer Information Systems ’10) has lived and worked in New York City since she graduated.

The rise in “open innovation” contests has helped companies broaden their research and development while reducing their cost and risk of failure.

At a recent conference of information systems department chairs, there was frequent discussion of the emergence of new analytics degree programs, minors, certifications and specialties.

Organizations such as DISC and Beta Alpha Psi enable students to experience the role of community service in a rich life. This month they paired up with KPMG to enliven the library at an area elementary school.

This fall the Department of Information Systems accepted a surprise gift – boxes of current best-selling books about data analytics -- donated by the Teradata University Network.

Academic success specialist Maria Chomina has “uncanny insight into a person’s personality, background and current state of thinking – an innate understanding of where a student is coming from,” says information systems department chairman Michael Goul.

To benefit from a sourcing system, employees need to use it, notes Rob Hornyak, an assistant professor of Information Systems, who teamed up with Arun Rai of Georgia State University to explore adoption of a sourcing enterprise system (SES) at one the largest consumer products companies in the Un

Stephanie Gonzales thought the Computer Information Systems program would be boring and didn’t give it a second thought when she first heard about it in about 2003.

It’s an exciting time to be going into IT, said Avnet CIO Steve Phillips. “The stakes have changed. IT is now at the heart of the business.” Information systems leaders are part of the senior management team at Avnet and many other companies, helping to develop strategy as well as implement it.

Just when we thought we were getting a handle on BYOD, along comes another acronym - BYOS. There’s some confusion on what the newer acronym stands for, however.