Inviting Mentee Applications to the 2025 AIS Career Mentoring Program until Feb. 7, 2025

[Claudia Loebbecke]

Inviting Mentee Applications to the 2025 AIS Career Mentoring Program until
Feb. 7, 2025

*Do not reply to AIS World-- see below*

*** AIS Senior Scholars and previous mentors are on bcc for better
information -- hoping that they will all help spread the word ***

 

The AIS Mentoring Committee (Jane Fedorowicz, Atreyi Kankanhalli, Wynne
Chin, Helmut Krcmar, and Claudia Loebbecke) kindly invites you to apply for
the 2025 AIS Career Mentoring Program! It only takes a reply to this mail!

 

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;
this is the plan for 2025: 

 

Until February 7, 2025, we welcome mentee applications (PLEASE SREAD THE
WORD!). To apply, it only takes one eMail to claudia.loebbecke at uni-koeln.de
<mailto:claudia.loebbecke at uni-koeln.de>  (NOT to AISWorld) with your first
name, last name, academic institution, and institutional e-mail address

stating that you

(1) wish to participate,

(2) are IS faculty member (we are not picky, all mentors are related to IS)

(3) are in a minority position (gender, religion, race, sexual orientation,
handicap, etc.) OR non-tenured in your current school / environment (we will
not check minority status, but try to check tenure status)

(4) are NOT a PhD student (we will check)

(5) have not yet (co)published in MISQ, ISR, JAIS, or JMIS (we will check).

Mentees may have participated in the AIS Career Mentoring before; they would
get a different mentor.

 

It is easy: One such mail with all elements and NOT sent to AIS World by
February 7, 2025, and you are in the drawing drum! Please do not omit any of
the above points.

 

After February 7, we will polish the list. During February (date tbd.) we
will randomly draw mentor/mentee pairs. The drawing will be online and open;
so it is possible, but by no means necessary to attend. We will show only
names; it is important that nobody feels that we manipulated the drawing.

 

Please note that the AIS Career Mentoring Program is an additional goodie
offered by AIS Senior Scholars and friends (all to be appreciated later).
The smaller number, either volunteering mentors or applying/accepted
mentees, will define the number of pairs. Likely, not everybody will be
matched. There will be only one round, no follow-up for non-drawn persons.
Again, this is a voluntary goodie form and for all involved!

 

Drawn mentor / mentee pairs will receive their respective contact details
soon after the drawing. 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 completely open to mentee and mentor how to proceed!
Some pairs will interact frequently and stay in touch forever, others will
give up earlier. We can offer some suggestions based on previous
experiences, however, we know that all mentors have solid mentoring
experience and we somehow expect that most mentees will come with some
questions or concerns.

 

By mid-November 2025, mentees should send a standardized very short report,
so that -- during ICIS 2025 -- we can inform AIS Senior Scholars and the
crowd about a hopefully successful and helpful program as another small
diamond in the AIS portfolio.

 

Looking forward to drowning in applications to the 2025 AIS Career Mentoring
Program, I ask you to kindly spread the word,

Best wishes - Claudia (Loebbecke)

P.S.: In parallel, we are undertaking some efforts for gaining mentors to
the 2025 AIS Career Mentoring Program -- it looks promising, but it is never
enough! If some full professor or senior associate professor, AIS member,
would be ready to volunteer, pls. send an eMail to
claudia.loebbecke at uni-koeln.de <mailto:claudia.loebbecke at uni-koeln.de> .
Mentees, organizing committee, and the AIS shall be grateful.


[sent for the AIS Mentoring Committee 2025, Wynne Chin, Jane Fedorowicz,
Atreyi Kankanhalli, Helmut Krcmar, and Claudia Loebbecke - the latter in
charge of all mistakes!]

-------------------------------------------------
 <http://www.mtm.uni-koeln.de/team-loebbecke-home-engl.htm> Professor Dr.
Claudia Loebbecke, M.B.A.
 <http://www.mtm.uni-koeln.de/> Dept. of Media and Technology Management 
University of Cologne, Germany
 <http://www.aisnet.org/> Association for Information Systems (AIS):
<http://www.aisnet.org/> AIS Honorary Lifetime Member,
<http://start.aisnet.org/?FellowAward> AIS Fellow 2012,
<https://aisnet.org/?PresidentialGallery> AIS President 2005-2006
 <http://www.fulbright.de/> Fulbright Liaison Professor, University of
Cologne

 

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