Record of Decisions with Respect to
Special AIS and Related Activities

 

   

Leo Award (December 1999)

AIS Fellows Award (December 1999)

Amended December 2001

 

2003

June Meeting - Naples  (agenda, minutes)

December Meeting - Seattle (agenda, minutes)

   

2002

June Meeting - Seattle  (agenda, minutes)

December Meeting - Barcelona (agenda, minutes)

  Item 5: to institute an award for professional service to AIS or the IS discipline (see agenda or minutes for details)
  Item 15:  that LEO award holders be permitted to serve on the selection committee; however, they should not form the majority of members on the committee
  Item 17:  Re rules for sponsoring Doctoral Consortia.  There was general agreement that AIS financial support for doctoral consortia only be made when the conduct of the consortia meets certain well-recognized standards.
  Item 37:  IS in AACSB Initiatives; the President to appoint a task force of Zmud, R. Watson, Valacich, and Ives to forward their report and a letter of AIS endorsement to the AACSB
  Item 38:  Activities associated with the State of the Discipline
  1. For point 1, see above re AACSB
  2. President Ein-Dor to set up a committee to deal with issues related to the future of the discipline

2001

June Meeting - Barcelona  (Strategic Planning mtg - SPM:  agenda, minutes; council meeting:  agenda, minutes)

December Meeting - New Orleans (agenda, minutes)

Motion (SPM):  that a committee be formed to work on the merger of AIS and MISQCommittee:  AIS members will be Beath, Watson, Vitale, and Lucas.  Ives will also be on the committee. 

At the December meeting, it appeared that another committee headed by Bob Zmud also looked into certain aspects of the decision.

AIS-MISQ Alliance (Item 8):  That the Association for Information Systems seek to conclude a multi-year contractual agreement with the MIS Quarterly so as to provide free-of-charge as soon as possible, on-line access to the Quarterly to our individual members.  As a condition of this arrangement we will provide a recurring annual subsidy to not exceed $30,000 with any increases in that subsidy for subsequent years to be proposed by a joint governance committee described below and approved by AIS Council.

Amendment:  that the governance committee not include the Editor-in-Chief was defeated.

That the two AIS members on the MISQ Governance Committee be the VP Publications and a person selected by the President, Past President, and President-Elect.

 

 

AIS Fellows Award (clarification of objectives/conditions) (Item 6)

1.  The requirement for "Service to the Information Systems disclipline" is to be taken in the context of the Fellow's country and region.  As part of their service to the IS community as a whole, fellows from the Americas would be expected to have participated in AIS, AMCIS, or ICIS,  and Fellows from Regions 2 and 3 would be expected to have participated in ECIS or PACIS respectively.  Amendment:  Regions 2 and 3 would be expected to have participated in AIS, ICIS, ECIS, or PACIS.

2.  It is a condition of the Award that those nominated be members in good standing of the AIS at the time of their nomination or, if retired, have been members of AIS at the time of retirement and have been active in AIS before retirement. 

2000

June Meeting - New Orleans  (agenda, minutes)

December Meeting - Brisbane (Council meeting:  agenda, minutes; Strategic Planning mtg:  agendaminutes)

   
   
   
   

1999

June Meeting - Atlanta  (agenda, minutes of Friday and Sunday meetings are recorded sequentially)

December Meeting - Charlotte (agenda, minutes)

   
   
   

1998

April  Meeting - On-line  (agenda, minutes)

August Meeting - Baltimore (agenda, minutes)

  Agreed that current President, Davis, form a small committee to look at what other bodies wrt ethical behavior (such as plagiarism) and make a proposal to Council.

December Meeting - Helsinki (agenda, minutes)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1997

May Meeting - On-line  (agenda, Exec. Summary)

August Meeting - Indianapolis (agenda, minutes) (Informal ; therefore no formal decisions)

December Meeting - Atlanta (agenda, minutes)

 

1996

December Meeting - Cleveland (agenda, VP minutes, Sub-Committee minutes, Council Member minutes)

 

1995

December Meeting - Amsterdam (minutes)

 

 


Last update: 31 August 2003 01:56 PM -0500, I. Zigurs

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