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Recommended Citation: Snyder, J, G J Slauson, and D Carpenter. An Action Plan to Increase IS Enrollment Based on Recent Survey Evidence. In The Proceedings of the Information Systems Education Conference 2008, v 25 (Phoenix): §3152. ISSN: 1542-7382. (A later version appears in Information Systems Education Journal 7(65). ISSN: 1545-679X.)

An Action Plan to Increase IS Enrollment Based on Recent Survey Evidence

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9 pages

John Snyder    [a1] [a2]
Department of Business - Computer Information Systems
Mesa State College    [u1] [u2]
Grand Junction, Colorado, USA    [c1] [c2]

Gayla Jo Slauson    [a1] [a2]
Department of Business – Computer Information Systems
Mesa State College    [u1] [u2]
Grand Junction, Colorado, USA    [c1] [c2]

Donald Carpenter    [a1] [a2]
Department of Business – Computer Information Systems
Mesa State College    [u1] [u2]
Grand Junction, Colorado, USA    [c1] [c2]

The recent downturn in Information Systems enrollments and degrees granted has been a topic of interest in academia as well as industry. This downturn could negatively impact the future of the profession and negatively impact business in the 21st century, arguably still in the adolescence of the “Information Age.” This paper catalogs the issues and causes of these declines from recent articles and proposes action items to address these issues on a local scale.

Keywords: information systems education, declining enrollment, outsourcing of technology jobs, information systems careers

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