Two in one: academic conference at SCIP 03.

Carolina Olivieri, colivieri@scip.org


At SCIP 03, attendees get two exciting conferences back to back! On the final day of the SCIP Annual Conference, Saturday, March 15, 2003, the SCIP Academic Conference will begin. The Academic Conference is a one-day event seeking to encourage practitioners and academicians to meet and build relationships at the world’s largest CI conference and exhibition.

SCIP 03 will host academics from around the globe who will present cutting edge research in the CI discipline and exchange tips and techniques for teaching CI in the classroom. The conference will give the Academic community the opportunity to discuss, debate, demonstrate, and deliver research papers in a forum designed to grow the body of knowledge associated with the CI discipline.

The chairman for this year's Academic Conference is Dick Klavans, who is particularly interested in forming research and teaching alliances within CI and between CI and related academic disciplines. Dick will give the opening welcome.

CI interdisciplinary research

The morning sessions of the Academic Conference will focus on interdisciplinary research - CI research that links to strategic management, marketing, information science, information technology, political science and/or other established areas of research. Five different research papers will be presented. The afternoon sessions will focus on helping instructors teach CI more effectively at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Interactive roundtable discussions will include such topics as:

• competency models.
• case study development.
• sharing of syllabi.
• textbook selection.
• course development strategies.

"The academic community is an important part of our constituency, and to have them involved with SCIP 03 makes this event special and unique,” emphasizes Melanie Wing, SCIP’s Vice President of Programs. “As the CI discipline continues to gain interest on campuses around the world, SCIP 03 provides a forum for practitioners and academicians to interact and be a valuable resource to one another,” she explains.

Registration is $299, and contact Jen Griffith to register. For additional information regarding the SCIP Academic Conference, please see the conference web site or contact Dick Klavans or Michael Reed, SCIP’s Director of Learning.

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scip.online, issue 23, January 23, 2003.