Junior Faculty Consortium

Monday August 9th, 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. EST

AMCIS 2021 continues the tradition of hosting the Junior Faculty Consortium. This year’s theme will be Academic Resilience in the Post-COVID World and we will be hosting our activities on Monday August 9th – see the schedule below.

The pandemic disrupted many aspects of junior faculty work – from halting research, pausing data collection, generating new and sudden demands for virtual curriculum and online delivery and creating new stresses for personal well-being. The Junior Faculty Consortium theme will recognize these disruptions and bring together participants in the early stages of their academic career to discuss career success and “Academic resilience in the post-COVID world”. Our main goal is to offer all participants insights into getting back on track, post pandemic, with their academic career and offer mentoring and advice that can help them be successful and marketable in their career.

The consortium draws together not-yet-tenured faculty along with faculty mentors from a variety of schools throughout the Americas region for activities and discussion aimed to offer all participants insights into their academic career that can help them be valuable, marketable, and successful in their career from their own perspective, and that of their university and the academia.

The consortium will be limited to the first 40 applicants who are completed their PhD and in an academic position. Link to apply: http://go.ivey.ca/5zLv

Our schedule on Monday August 9th (EDT) will be:

12:00 – 12:30     Welcome / Overview of Program and Networking/Icebreaker Activity
12:30 – 1:30        Breakout Session with Faculty Mentors (4 participants to 1 mentor). Theme: Post COVID – Reclaiming Research and Developing a Pipeline
1:30 – 1:45          Break
1:45 – 3:00          Senior Scholar Panel: Ask it Basket
3:00 – 4:00         Optional Virtual Networking/Social

We have an exciting line up of small group mentors:

  • Michelle Carter, Washington State University
  • Ron Centefelli, University of British Columbia
  • Bin Gu, Boston University
  • Dorothy Leidner, Baylor University
  • Likoebe Maruping, Georgia State University
  • Nilesh Saraf, Simon Fraser University
  • Heshan Sun, University of Oklahoma
  • Hüseyin Tanriverdi, University of Texas at Austin
  • Ryan Wright, University of Virginia

We are also delighted to bring you an excellent panel of Senior Scholars for the Ask-it Basket to answer questions and discuss career advice for pre-tenure faculty.

Izak Benbasat
Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia

Deborah Compeau
Hubman Distinguished Professor of Information Systems, Washington State University

Suzanne Rivard, FRSC, FAIS
Holder of the Chair in Strategic Management of Information Technology, HEC Montreal

We look forward to seeing you!

Co-Chairs:
Hasan Cavusoglu, Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia, Sauder School of Business
Nicole Haggerty, Associate Professor at Western University, Ivey Business School