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An Action Plan to Increase IS Enrollment Based on Recent Survey Evidence John Snyder Mesa State College Grand Junction, Colorado 81501 USA Gayla Jo Slauson Mesa State College Grand Junction, Colorado 81501 USA Donald Carpenter Mesa State College Grand Junction, Colorado 81501 USA

Abstract: The recent downturn in Information Systems enrollments and degrees granted has been a topic of interest in academia as well as industry. This downturn could negatively impact the future of the profession and negatively impact business in the 21st century, arguably still in the adolescence of the “Information Age.” This paper catalogs the issues and causes of these declines from recent articles and proposes action items to address these issues on a local scale.

Keywords: information systems education, declining enrollment, outsourcing of technology jobs, information systems careers

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Recommended Citation: Snyder, Slauson, and Carpenter (2009). An Action Plan to Increase IS Enrollment Based on Recent Survey Evidence. Information Systems Education Journal, 7 (65). http://isedj.org/7/65/. ISSN: 1545-679X. (A preliminary version appears in The Proceedings of ISECON 2008: §3152. ISSN: 1542-7382.)