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Raghu Santanam will be on sabbatical next year at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. The topic he is exploring could not be timelier.

Misperceptions about the IT and information systems field abound among today’s high school and college students. As a result, enrollment in technology majors has dropped off at colleges and universities around the country.

They might spend most of their undergraduate hours going deep into a major like Computer Information Systems (CIS), but on the job, students will have to marshal an array of knowledge and skills to solve problems.

CIS students learn early that preparation -- taking the time to fully prepare to do their best – determines how well they’ll be able to market themselves to a company when it comes to getting that all important internship -- which can open all sorts of doors to their future.

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.