Who are our students? A profile of IS majors

The decline in IS enrollments since 2002 have been a cause of serious concern for IS departments. Many programs have closed IS departments, reduced in size or merged with other departments. IS faculty and associations have taken numerous steps to stem the tide of declining enrollments such as redesigning the IS curricula, forming partnerships with alumni and IS professionals, improved marketing and information dissemination to alleviate myths and stereotypes as well as apprise students of the global opportunities available in IS. An understanding of the IS student will help us better target programs and approaches to reduce the enrollment decline. This study seeks to answer this question about the academic standing, demographic profile and satisfaction levels of the IS student by analyzing the 277,238 exit surveys of which 13,910 are from IS majors from 344 US business schools for the period 1999 – 2007

Crisis curricular en Sistemas de Información Sebastián José

Los Sistemas de Información (SI) están teniendo hoy un impacto profundo en las organizaciones a nivel global. Sin embargo, las miles de conceptualizaciones en la disciplina de SI han resultado en recomendaciones desconectadas y no estructuradas que ponen en riesgo el crecimiento y la supervivencia de dicha disciplina. Esta crisis ha disminuido significativamente el interés de su estudio, reduciendo el nivel de alumnos. No obstante existe a nivel internacional significativos esfuerzos en dar un marco teórico que identifique a la disciplina y de formular un modelo global de currícula en SI. Además, en nuestro país, lo que establece la resolución 786/2009 del Ministerio de Educación difiere del modelo global y las Universidades Nacionales están en proceso de adaptación de sus curriculas. Obviamente que se vienen cambios radicales en la disciplina.Red de Universidades con Carreras en Informática (RedUNCI