MISSION:
RESEARCH:
The Foundation is the research and development arm of AITP (The Association for Information Technology Professionals). It is a not-for-profit organization which was established in 1975 to meet the changing educational requirements of the information profession and industry, and to address the long term educational efforts essential to support the industry and AITP members.
The Education Foundation, as an independent body representing practitioners, educators and researchers, seeks to provide leadership in identifying educational opportunities that will advance the information systems profession.
SERVICES:
The Foundation's objectives are to:
- Advance the education of information systems professionals in education, business, government, and the general public.
- Determine the needs and desires of information systems professionals with regard to education and development.
- Develop and stimulate the use of educational programs for information systems evaluation.
- Conduct research and development activities related to educational courses and programs.
- Further the development of effective information systems curricula.
- Encourage the development and adoption of technical and managerial information systems standards and preferred practices.
- Develop and release publications in support of the Foundation's objectives.
VOLUNTEERS:
The Foundation is governed by a six-member Board of Regents who are appointed by the President of AITP to serve overlapping three-year terms. Four Regents must be information systems professionals, educators or researchers and the remaining two members may be appointed without regard to the person's profession. Four of the Regents are selected from among the AITP membership and the remaining two are selected without regard to such membership.
The Foundation makes extensive use of volunteer committees made up of AITP members and/or non-members chosen to support a single effort.
PROGRAMS:
The Foundation's programs are wide ranging and have touched on every aspect of the information systems industry...
- A major effort is the implementation of the Model Curriculum for Computer Information
Systems Education in two and four year colleges. This is an excellent example of the research and developmental nature of the Foundation. It was a four-year effort to develop the first curriculum and gain its acceptance. This is an operational function of AITP with numerous institutions now using the AITP Model Curriculum.- The Foundation sponsors the highly successful Information Systems Education Conference (ISECON) for the professional educator, as well as the corporate professional. ISECON is a premier educational event, annually bringing together educators, Professional Trainers and Textbook Publishers.
- Each year the Foundation contracts to sponsor several seminars in major U.S. cities attended by information systems professionals, with special emphasis on computer and software applications.
- The Foundation sponsors a grants and awards program for colleges and universities as well as individuals and organizations, to provide funds for projects that further educate in the areas of information processing.
R.S.V.P.
Grants are welcome from all organizations to expand these programs. Gifts and grants to the Foundation are exempt from Federal Income Tax, under section 501 (c) 3, Internal Revenue Code.
This exemption also applies to contributions made by AITP chapters, regions, officers, individual members or non-members. Chapter and individual contributions are often placed in the Foundation's endowment fund to insure continuity of the Foundation and to provide maximum leverage for the contribution. Your help is urgently solicited so that the Foundation's much needed and long overdue efforts in information management education can be continued and expanded.
Send your contribution to the Foundation for Information Technology Education at the address listed below or click here to find out more about making a donation to the Foundation.
Foundation for IT Education
500 N. Michigan Avenue, Suite 300
Chicago, IL 60611