USQ professor elected ACPHIS president

A USQ academic has been named 2010 president of the Australian Council of Professors and Heads of Information Systems (ACPHIS).

USQ Information Systems Head of School, Professor Mark Toleman, was elected president at the December’s annual general meeting.

ACPHIS is the peak body established to represent Australian information systems academics on matters of national and international importance to the discipline. It covers all Australian universities.

Additionally, the ACPHIS President is a member of the Australian Computer Society’s Information Systems Professional Board, a member of the Australasian Association of Information Systems Executive Committee, a member of the Executive Committee of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems and an invited observer on the Australian Council of Deans of ICT (ACDICT).

Professor Toleman has also been invited to membership of the Reference Group by the Management Committee for the ALTC funded Discipline Support Strategy (DSS) and the Discipline Scholars for Engineering and Technology.