2020 ACM SIGMIS CPR Lifetime Achievement Award
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Thomas W. Ferratt, Professor Emeritus at the University of Dayton, is the recipient of the 2020 ACM SIGMIS CPR Lifetime Achievement Award. He served in leadership roles, including Chair, Conference Chair, and Program Chair, with ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research (SIGCPR) Subsequent to its merger with SIGMIS, he continued to serve in leadership roles with the CPR Conference. Consistent with the conference theme, a major stream of his research has focused on the management of information systems professionals. His research has been published and featured in a variety of publications, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Journal of Management Information Systems, MIS Quarterly Executive, Communications of the ACM, The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems, Information and Management, Communications of the AIS, Academy of Management Journal, Human Relations, Decision Sciences, and Computerworld. His 2000 MIS Quarterly paper with Bob Roepke and Ritu Agarwal, Aligning the IT Human Resource with Business Vision: The Leadership Initiative at 3M," received first place in the 1998 SIM Paper Competition. More recently, his 2016 paper with Fred Niederman and Eileen Trauth, "On the Co Evolution of Information Technology and Information Systems Personnel," in The Data Base for Advances in Information Systems, received a 2017 Senior Scholars AIS Best Information Systems Publications Award, Dr. Ferratt's academic career, beginning with his doctoral program at The Ohio State University in 1970, now spans 50 years. Prior to retirement at the end of 2016, he was at the University of Dayton for thirty years (1986 2016) where he served as an associate dean (1997 2000) and held the Sherman Standard Register Endowed Chair in Management Information Systems from 2003 until his retirement. He also was on the faculty at Drake University (1974 84) where he served as a department chair (1980 82) a visiting faculty at Indiana University (1984 86) and a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California (2015)
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