UGA Management Information Systems - MIS

The MIS department and held its annual "Meet the Companies" event on campus last week.

We're thankful for the participation of all of our corporate partners at this recruiting event; our students had a great experience!

The MIS department and MIS Student Advisory Board hosted our annual Top 10% Event this week to recognize high-achieving students and kick off the fall recruiting cycle. Thanks to all the black-level members of the Advisory Board for helping us celebrate our students!

We kicked off the spring recruiting cycle with our annual "MIS Meet the Companies" recruiting event this afternoon.

Sponsored by the MIS Department, MIS Advisory Board, Society for Management Information Systems, and the UGA Career Center, the networking mixer brought together MIS students seeking internships or permanent positions with red and black-level corporate members of the MIS Advisory Board.

The following companies registered to participate: Ad Victoriam Solutions, Amazon AWS, BDO, BlackRock, CGI, Deloitte, EY, Johnson Lambert LLP, KPMG, Moore Colson, Protiviti, PwC, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS).

The MIS Department's Top 10% Event celebrates some of our department's highest-achieving students.

The exclusive event brings students together with black-level members of the MIS Advisory Board for an evening of dinner, drinks, and lively conversation.

We wouldn't be able to host these social events for our students without the support of the corporate members of the MIS Advisory Board (and in particular the Black Corporate level members!) In addition to their generous financial support, our students especially appreciate all the branded swag they can win through our games, raffles, and trivia competitions.

The Terry MIS Welcome Back Social brings together students, faculty, and our corporate sponsors to enjoy a decadent BBQ buffet, MIS trivia, raffle drawings, and (of course!) the iconic Australian party game, Heads & Tails.

The MIS Department hosted the MIS Academic Leadership Conference (MALC) to over 100 MIS thought leaders, department heads, associate deans, and deans from around the world. The conference featured an opening reception, keynote talk by Bill Franks on analytics and AI, a debate in historical Demosthenian Hall on the long-term impact of AI on jobs, and a Georgia-style football tailgate. Panels included deans discussing the trends and opportunities for MIS in business schools, innovative ideas and opportunities, AI in the MIS curriculum, “hot takes” on MIS related issues, fund raising best practices, journal editors discussing publication trends and issues.
Set aside the SEC tension to share an awesome weekend with our LSU counterpart…not sure it’ll remain😉

Just finished wrapping up our Top 10% Event hosted a couple weeks ago. It was a wonderful time spent between students and company representatives, celebrating students on a job well done. Looking forward to next year, hopefully without a mid-event fire alarm.

Ain’t nothing like a come back!! Last night’s MIS Welcome Back Social was a major success bringing together students, faculty, and company representatives. Topping the night off with Prof. Rick Watson’s legendary heads and tails from his homeland… Australia!

Back with another “Thursday Thoughts” from our outback cowboy, Rick thinks…

“Information Systems is a thinking profession because you continually confront new problems and technology. You need to learn to think at three levels: low, medium, and high. At the low level, you must learn to think like a programmer, which means you can envision the detail necessary to design an app or a process. You see the overall sequence, the major logic branches, and where loops and functions are needed to create compact and elegant code. Because I like thinking, I still enjoy thinking through a problem and coding a solution, especially on Thursdays.”

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INTRODUCING Katherine Downing — our Woman in MIS Wednesday spotlight!!

Katherine has one more year left in the MIS department and is slaying the game thanks to staying on top of the material as everything builds on top of itself, class-to-class.