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 Do you wish to join AITP? Or perhaps you want to know what you can get from joining? The AITP Student Chapter is organized to help Computer Information Systems, Accounting Info Systems, Computer Science and other technology-related majors get a "feel" for what Information Technology is like outside the classroom. It does not cost much either. The national dues are $25 a year (compare to $120 for full-time employees). The local chapter dues are even less - come to our first meeting and voice your opinion on this and other matters! Interested? Please e-mail Dr. Raj for more information. Membership has its privileges! For the past four years, the Nashville Chapter has been awarding scholarships to students in our region. For three of those years, an MSU student has earned one of those scholarships. Nobody applied last year - talk about callousness! These are a great help when it comes time to pay tuition, books, etc.! Also, our students have proven skillful enough to win various events at this region's Student Convention (StuCon). We also won in the Visual Basic competition at the national Collegiate Conference in 1997 at Madison, WI! These events are great places to network with IT professionals, pass out resumes at job fairs, pick up door prizes, listen to informative talks from various companies, and compete for cash prizes. So far, thanks to support from our Dean and the CSIS chair, we were able to attend student conferences at Myrtle Beach (2), Johnson CIty (TN), Madison (WI), Evansville (IN) and one in faraway Florida (sold candy for that one as we had to fly!). By the way the site you are browsing won the first place at the National competition in Evansville. Thanks are due to John Ecken and Charles Moore for the excellent work. Our student chapter takes many trips to tour various local companies, seeing their IT departments and listens to talks from people out in the "real world." This is a great way to learn what skills the companies are looking for, helping us find jobs once we graduate. The upperclassmen in our chapter are great sources of information on professors and classes here at MSU. We even can try to find tutors for you in those really hard classes.
To join, please e-mail Dr. Raj and let him know. Or call
him at extension 6212.
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Send mail to
victor.raj@murraystate.edu with questions or comments about this web site.
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