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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>*** Extended Deadline ***<br>(we have open seats, confirmed participation of all those who applied by today's deadline, and continue to stick to the application criteria below -- same rules for all)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Inviting Mentee Applications to the 202<span style='color:black'>5</span> AIS Career Mentoring Program until Feb. <span style='color:red'>13</span>, 202<span style='color:black'>5</span></span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>*Do not reply to AIS World-- see below*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>*** AIS Senior Scholars and previous mentors are on bcc for better information -- hoping that they will all help spread the word ***<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>The AIS Mentoring Committee (Jane Fedorowicz, Atreyi Kankanhalli, Wynne Chin, Helmut Krcmar, and Claudia Loebbecke) <b>kindly invites you to apply for the 202<span style='color:black'>5</span> AIS Career Mentoring Program! It only takes a reply to this mail!<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>After the successful 2024 program (thanks to ALL involved!) is just before the 2025 version … We will more or less repeat the successful 2024 model; t</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>his is the plan<span style='color:black'> for 2025</span>: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Until February <span style='color:red'>13</span><span style='color:black'>,</span> 202<span style='color:black'>5</span>, we welcome<b> mentee applications<span style='color:black'> (PLEASE SREAD THE WORD!)</span></b>. To apply, it only takes <b>one eMail to <a href="mailto:claudia.loebbecke@uni-koeln.de">claudia.loebbecke@uni-koeln.de</a> (NOT to AISWorld) </b>with your first name, last name, academic institution, and institutional e-mail address<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>stating that you<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>(1) wish to participate,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>(2) are IS faculty member (we are not picky, all mentors are related to IS)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>(3) are in a <b>minority</b> position (gender, religion, race, sexual orientation, handicap, etc.) <b>OR</b> <b>non-tenured</b> in your current school / environment (we will not check minority status, but try to check tenure status)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>(4) are <b>NOT</b> a PhD student (we will check)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>(5) have <b>not yet (co)published</b> in MISQ, ISR, JAIS, or JMIS (we will check).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Mentees may have participated <span style='color:black'>in the AIS Career Mentoring before; they would get a different mentor</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>It is easy: One such mail with all elements and NOT sent to AIS<span style='color:black'> </span>World by February </span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:red'>13</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>, 202<span style='color:black'>5</span>, and you are in the drawing drum! Please do not omit any of the above points.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>After February <span style='color:red'>13</span>, we will polish the list. <b>During February (date tbd.) we will randomly draw mentor/mentee pairs.</b> The drawing will be online and open; so it is possible, but by no means necessary to attend. <span style='color:black'>W</span>e will show only names<span style='color:black'>; </span>it is important that nobody feels that we manipulated the drawing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>P</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>lease note that the AIS Career Mentoring Program is an additional goodie offered by AIS Senior Scholars and friends (all to be appreciated later). <b><span style='color:black'>Th</span>e smaller <span style='color:black'>number</span>, either volunteering mentors or applying<span style='color:black'>/accepted</span> mentees, will define the number of pairs</b>. <span style='color:black'>Likely, n</span>ot everybody will be matched. There will be only one round, no follow-up for non-drawn persons. <span style='color:black'>Again, this is a voluntary goodie form and for all involved!<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Drawn mentor / mentee pairs will receive their respective contact details soon after the drawing. </span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>They shall then meet online for about an hour at a mutually convenient time, ideally within the 4 weeks after the matching. After that, it will be <span style='color:black'>completely </span>open to mentee and mentor how to proceed! Some pairs will interact frequently and stay in touch forever, others will give up earlier. We <span style='color:black'>can</span> offer some suggestions based on <span style='color:black'>previous </span>experiences, however, <span style='color:black'>we know that all</span> mentors have solid mentoring experience<span style='color:black'> and we somehow expect that </span>most mentees will come with some questions or concerns.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>By mid-November 202<span style='color:black'>5</span>, <b>mentees should send a standardized very short report</b>, so that -- during ICIS 202<span style='color:black'>5</span> -- we can inform A<span style='color:black'>IS</span> Senior Scholars and the crowd about a hopefully successful and helpful program as another small diamond <span style='color:black'>in </span>the AIS portfolio.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Looking forward to drowning in applications to the 202<span style='color:black'>5</span> AIS Career Mentoring Program<span style='color:black'>, I ask you to kindly spread the word,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black'>Best wishes </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>- Claudia (Loebbecke)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>P.S.: In parallel, we are <b>undertaking some efforts for gaining mentors</b> to the 202<span style='color:black'>5</span> AIS Career Mentoring Program<span style='color:black'> -- it looks promising, but it is never enough!</span> If some full professor or senior associate professor<span style='color:black'>,</span> AIS member<span style='color:black'>,</span> would be ready to volunteer, pls. send an eMail to<b> </b><a href="mailto:claudia.loebbecke@uni-koeln.de">claudia.loebbecke@uni-koeln.de</a>. Mentees, organizing committee<span style='color:black'>,</span> and the AIS shall be grateful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><br>[sent for the AIS Mentoring Committee 202<span style='color:black'>5, </span>Wynne Chin, Jane Fedorowicz, Atreyi Kankanhalli, Helmut Krcmar, and Claudia Loebbecke - <span style='color:black'>the latter </span>in charge of all mistakes!]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=left style='text-align:left'><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt'>-------------------------------------------------</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><br></span><span lang=DE style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.mtm.uni-koeln.de/team-loebbecke-home-engl.htm"><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Professor Dr. Claudia Loebbecke, M.B.A.</span></a></span><span lang=IT style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><br></span><span lang=DE style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.mtm.uni-koeln.de/"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Dept. of Media and Technology Management</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> <br>University of Cologne, Germany<br></span><span lang=DE style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.aisnet.org/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Association for Information Systems (AIS)</span></a></span><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>:</span></u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span><span lang=DE style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.aisnet.org/"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>AIS Honorary Lifetime Member,</span></a></span><span lang=DE style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'> </span><span lang=DE style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="http://start.aisnet.org/?FellowAward"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>AIS Fellow 2012</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>, </span><span lang=DE style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="https://aisnet.org/?PresidentialGallery"><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>AIS President 2005-2006</span></a></span><u><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'><br></span></u><span lang=DE style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.fulbright.de/"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black'>Fulbright Liaison Professor</span></a></span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>, University of Cologne<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>