ISQA PROFESSOR RECOGNIZED ISQA congratulates our colleague Dr. Donna Dufner for receiving the Outstanding Teaching and Instructional Creativity Award this year. This award recognizes individual faculty members for sustained records of excellence in teaching and is among the highest faculty awards given by the university.

ISQA STUDENT AWARDED SCHOLARSHIP Our congratulations go to graduate student Eleanor Ehizojie, who was recently awarded one of the Phi Delta Gamma Scholarships.

NEW GRADUATE CONCENTRATION ISQA is happy to announce a new graduate concentration in Data Management. This concentration will be available starting in the Fall 2008 semester. For details on this concentration, visit the Graduate Concentrations page.

DR. DUFNER HONORED In November of 2007 Dr. Dufner was elevated to Senior Member in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), for professional maturity and significant professional accomplishment. She is first woman in Omaha to be elevated to Senior Member. Less than 7.78% of 374,800 IEEE members worldwide have received this honor.

ISQA TENURE-TRACK POSITION ISQA is hiring - you can read the entire position announcement online. Applicants must use the careers.unomaha.edu site to apply.

EXPLORING NORWAY ISQA Graduate Student and former MISSO Vice-President Seth Wingert is spending a year at Agder University College in Kristiansand, Norway. As you can see, he's enjoying the Norwegian landscape as part of his overseas experience. You can find out more about Seth's sight-seeing on his FaceBook page. More information about the exchange program with Norway can be found here.

ISQA AT PKI STUDENT RESOURCE DAYS The ISQA department was notably present at the PKI Student Resource Days held during the first week of the fall semester. ISQA Chair Dr. Ilze Zigurs, along with Dr. Lotfi Najjar and Dr. G.J. de Vreede, provided a helping hand with the Union Pacific sponsored luncheon on August 29. (Click on picture to enlarge.) In addition, MISSO, the MIS Student Organization, was on hand to sign up new members and hand out all kinds of freebies.

NEW DUAL DEGREE MPA/MS MIS AVAILABLE AT UNO The College of IS&T and the School of Public Administration at UNO are partnering to offer a dual-degree program in which students can earn an MPA degree and a Masters Degree in MIS in just 54 to 57 credit hours. The program is designed for dedicated students who are willing to take on the challenges related to graduate education from two perspectives that are integrated together -- Public Administration and Management Information Systems. For details, visit the Joint Degree Page.

NEW GRADUATE CERTIFICATES AVAILABLE AT UNO The College of IS&T at the Peter Kiewit Institute at UNO now offers graduate certificates in the areas of information assurance, project management, and systems analysis & design. The goal of the graduate certificates is to allow post-baccalaureate students and working professionals to expand their educational background and complete course work that could count towards a graduate degree in MIS. Each certificate consists of 12 credit hours of courses. For details, visit the Graduate Certificates Page.

NEW DUAL DEGREE MBA/MS MIS AVAILABLE AT UNO The College of IS&T and the College of Business Administration at UNO are partnering to offer a dual-degree program in which students can earn an MBA degree and a Masters Degree in MIS in just 54 credit hours. The program is designed for dedicated students who are willing to take on the challenges related to graduate education from two perspectives that are integrated together -- Business Administration and Management Information Systems. For details, visit the Joint Degree Page.

ISQA MENTORSHIP PROGRAM The ISQA Mentorship Program is now open to all ISQA students! Information about the new ISQA Mentorship Program for graduate students is now available on the Mentorship Program page.

UNO HONORS PROGRAM Undergraduate students interested in pursuing the UNO Honors Program are invited to check out their options at the Honors Program Website. Program benefits and requirements are specificied here in great detail.

ABET ACCREDITATION The ISQA undergraduate Information Systems program is now one of only a handful of programs in the world that is accredited by ABET, an international accreditation organization for engineering and technology www.abet.org.

CODES OF CONDUCT The ISQA faculty has recently approved a Student Code of Conduct (PDF File) and a Faculty Code of Conduct (PDF File).

INTEGRATED UNDERGRADUATE/GRADUATE TRACK ISQA is pleased to offer a new Integrated Undergraduate/Graduate Track which allows dedicated students to complete the BS in MIS undergraduate degree and the MS in MIS graduate degree in five years.

NORWAY EXCHANGE PROGRAM ISQA undergraduate and graduate students can now attend a semester overseas in wonderful Southern Norway!!! UNO and Agder University College, Kristiansand, Norway have signed an exchange agreement to allow students working towards a MIS degree or interested in a MIS minor, or MIS area of concentration to take a semester of their course work in Norway. For more information click see this web page or please contact Dr. Deepak Khazanchi or Stephanie Cannon.

For questions regarding graduate programs in ISQA, please contact Dr. Peter Wolcott at pwolcott@unomaha.edu or Carla Frakes at cfrakes@unomaha.edu.