AIS Educators Conference - June 29-30

The AISEA conference is one of the most enjoyable conferences I can imagine. The sessions are wonderfully educational, the people are great, friendly, non-pretentious, and it's like coming to a family reunion. Accounting systems professors from every size college of university imaginable, all meeting to share ideas, discuss problems, compare notes, and enjoy each other's company. I find it very interesting that so many of James Madison University's accounting professors, both former faculty was well as current faculty, are serving in national leadership positions. There are no fewer than ten JMU accounting faculty who have served and/or are serving as officers, board members, or directors of national organizations, including editor of the most prestigious accounting education journal, president of the national accounting honor society (three different JMU profs, in turn!), national secretary, board member, training conference chair of the national systems educator's association, president of the InfoSys section of the national accounting professor's association, chair of the national research committee of the federation of schools of accountancy, academic director of the national business accountants association, as well as several state-level leadership positions. Our newest hire who starts this coming fall was just elected to the board of directors of the national accounting information systems educator's association, a position I held a couple of years ago. I am proud to be associated with just a great group of faculty members.