WHAT'S NEW
NOVEMBER 2009
Pay for your AIS membership online by credit card; donations accepted, too
AIS can now accept online credit card payments (Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover) for memberships and donations via PayPal.
For information about membership and the different payment options, click Go>>
To pay a membership by credit card, click Go>>
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The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies published
The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies:
Essays on Transformations in American Undergraduate Programs, edited by Tanya Augsburg and Stuart Henry, is now available from publisher McFarland & Company, Inc. This collection of essays highlights the popularity of interdisciplinary undergraduate studies programs and their recent gains in the world of higher education, and then addresses the paradoxical failure of these programs to achieve a permanent position in the curricula of individual universities and colleges. AIS has sponsored this book, and Its editors are both members of the AIS Board of Directors. Contributors include William H. Newell (Miami University); Rick F. Hendra (University of Massachusetts-Amherst); Andre Furtado, Linda Lora Hulbert, Julie Thompson Klein, Lisa Maruca, Caroline Maun, Daphne W. Ntiri, and Roslyn Abt Schindler (Wayne State University); Jay Wentworth and Richard M. Carp (Appalachian State University); James W. Davis, Raymond C. Miller, and Helen Goldsmith (San Francisco State University); Allen F. Repko (University of Texas-Arlington); Peter W. Wakefield (Emory University); Janette Kenner Muir (George Mason University); Diana C. Archibald (The University of Massachusetts-Lowell); and Rick Szostak (University of Alberta, Canada).
For more information about The Politics of Interdisciplinary Studies, please go to McFarland's web page. Go>> To order a copy from Amazon.com, click Go>>
Allen Repko’s Interdisciplinary Research: Process and Theory available
Allen Repko's textbook, Interdisciplinary Research: Process and Theory, may be ordered through Amazon.com or directly from SAGE by contacting the publisher's customer service toll-free line at 800-818-7243 or e-mail info@sagepub.com. Sponsored by AIS, Interdisciplinary Research is the first textbook to offer a comprehensive treatment of the interdisciplinary research process for graduate students and advanced undergraduate students. To order copies through Amazon.com, search for Repko under Books. Go>>
AIS Mission and Vision statements are now online
What is the mission of the Association for Integrative Studies? What is its vision? Website visitors will find answers to these questions on the Mission and Vision page of the website in the pulldown menu under "About." The AIS Board of Directors adopted new language for the Mission Statement and approved a Vision Statement at a mid-year meeting in March. Go>>
Interested in hosting an AIS Conference?
AIS has sites in line for conferences into the start of the next decade. The AIS Board invites you to attend all of them. Any institutions that are interested in hosting a conference should contact AIS Board Conference Coordinator Roslyn Schindler at roslyn.schindler@wayne.edu. To learn more about AIS conferences, click here. Go>>
Job Postings in Interdisciplinary Studies
We offer the opportunity to post job openings as a free service to institutions
and members. We accept postings from universities, colleges, and other
academic institutions, or from professional education organizations
with openings for faculty or staff. In addition to posting the vacancies
on the website, we will post them on the INTERDIS Listserv. Go>>
AIS E-mail Address
Not sure who to contact regarding AIS? No Problem! We have an e-mail
address where you can direct all of your questions. Just send your inquiries
to aisorg@muohio.edu and
they will be directed to the appropriate person.
This page was updated November 7, 2009.