EDUCATION

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

HONORS AND AWARDS

Madison Teaching Fellow, Textbooks: Innovations and Effective Pedagogy, James Madison University, 2006-2007. 

Training Grant, James Madison University, College of Business, 2004, to attend Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design Training Class.

Best Paper, IS, MIS, DSS, AI, EIS, Managing Info. Technology Track, Southeast Region of the Decision Sciences Institute, February 26-28, 2003.

Bauman Faculty Development Award, CIS/OM Program, James Madison University, 2003.

Faculty Research Grant, James Madison University, College of Business, 2000-2001.

Co-author of the winner of the 1995 ALISE Research Paper Competition.  This prize is given annually to the best paper submitted to the Association of Library and Information Science Education research competition. 

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RESEARCH

Published Papers | Editor | Conference Proceedings | Conference Presentations | Textbooks (Unpublished)

Published Papers

Thomas W. Dillon and Diane Lending (2010).  "Will they Adopt?  Effects of Privacy and Accuracy," Journal of Computer Information Systems, (50:4), Summer 2010, p. 20-29.

Diane Lending (2010). “Using a Wiki to Collaborate on a Study Guide,” Journal of Information Systems Education, (21-1), April 2010, pp. 5 – 14.

D. Mcdowell, T. Dillon, & D. Lending (2008) Perceived quality benefits influenced by usefulness and documentation accuracy of information systems, CIN: Computers Informatics Nursing, (26:6), November/December 2008.

Diane Lending and Thomas W. Dillon (2007).  “The Effects of Confidentiality on Nursing Self-Efficacy with Information Systems,” International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems and Informatics, (2:3), July-September 2007, pp. 49-64.

Beverly Marshall, Claire E. Crutchley, and Diane Lending.  “The Value of Being First:  Early Internet IPOs Versus Subsequent Entrants,” forthcoming, Journal of Economics and Finance, July 2004.

S.E. Kruck and Diane Lending (2003). “Some Determinants of Student Performance in the First College-Level IS Course,” forthcoming, Information, Technology, Learning, and Performance Journal, Fall 2003, (21:2), pp. 9-15

Thomas W. Dillon, Diane Lending, Thaddeus R. Crews, II & Ray Blankenship (2003). “Nursing Self-Efficacy of an Integrated Clinical and Administrative Information System,” Computers, Informatics, Nursing, July/August June 2003, pp. 198-205.

Diane Lending and Norman L. Chervany (2002).  “Resistance to CASE Tool Use: A Restrictiveness/ Flexibility Explanation,” Journal of CIS, (23:1), Fall 2002, pp. 81-90.

Diane Lending and Norman L. Chervany (1998).  “CASE Tools: Understanding the Reasons for Non-Use,” Computer Personnel, (19:2), April 1998, pp. 13-26.

Diane Lending and Detmar W. Straub (1997).  “Impacts of an Integrated Information System on Faculty End Users: A Qualitative Assessment,” Journal of the American Society of Information Science, (48:5), pp. 466-471.

Diane Lending and James C. Wetherbe (1992).  “Update on MIS Research:  A Profile of Leading Journals and U.S. Universities,” Data Base, 23:3, pp. 5-11.

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Editor

Diane Lending and Chelley Vician (2007).  Editor, Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference, The Global Information Technology Workforce, St. Louis Missouri, USA, April 19-21, 2007, The Association of Computing Machinery.

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Refereed Conference Proceedings

Tim Olsen, Indira Guzman, Bas Smit, Diane Lending, and Jerry Kane, (2010), “Collaborative and Open Technologies and their Impact on Information Systems Instruction,” AMCIS 2010 Proceedings, Lima, Peru, August 2010.

Diane Lending and Richard G. Mathieu (2010). “Workforce Preparation and ABET Accreditation,” Proceedings of the 2010 Special Interest Group on Management Information System's 48th annual conference on Computer personnel research, Vancouver, May 2010, pp. 136-141.

Dillon, T.W., Vandsburger, E., Ford, K. & Lending, D. (2005).   “Self-efficacy of behavioral health professionals with a clinical and administrative information system,” Proceedings of South East Decision Science Institute, February 2005

Diane Lending and Thomas W. Dillon (2004).  “Perceptions of Accuracy:  Effects on Computer Attitudes and Self-Efficacy,” Proceedings of the 2004 SIGMIS conference on Computer personnel research, April 22-24, 2004, Tuscon, Arizona, pp. 127-128.

Diane Lending and Thomas W. Dillon (2003).  “Patient Confidentiality and the effects on Nursing Self-Efficacy,” 2003 Annual Meeting, Southeast Institute for Decision Sciences Institute, February 26-28, 2003, winner best paper in the IS, MIS, DSS, AI, EIS, Managing Info. Technology Track.

Diane Lending and S.E. Kruck (2002). “What predicts student performance in the first college-level IS course?  Is it different for men and women?” Proceedings of the 2002 ACM SIGCPR Conference, May 14-16, 2002, Kristiansand, Norway, Munir Mandiwalla, editor, pp. 100-102.

S.E. Kruck and Diane Lending (2001). “Some Determinants of Student Performance in the First College-Level IS Course,” Proceedings of the Seventh AMCIS 2001 Conference, August 2-5, 2001, Boston, Massaschusetts, Diane Strong and Detmar Straub, editors, pp. 73-75.

Diane Lending and Sandra A. Slaughter, “Research in Progress:  The Effects of Ethical Climate on Attitudes and Behaviors toward Software Piracy,” Proceedings of the ACM SIGCPR Conference, April 19-21, 2001, San Diego, California, USA, Mark Serva, Editor, pp. 198-200.

Diane Lending and Sandra A. Slaughter (1999).  “Understanding Differences in Ethical Beliefs and Behaviors Toward Software Copying:  The Effects of Organizational Culture,” Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGCPR Conference, April 8-10, 1999, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, J. Prasad, ed., ACM Press, NY, pp. 253-260.

Diane Lending and Norman L. Chervany (1998). “The Use of CASE Tools,” Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGCPR Conference, March 26-28, 1998, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, R. Agarwal, ed., ACM Press, NY, pp. 49-58.

Diane Lending and Norman L. Chervany (1997). “The Changing Systems Development Job: A Job Characteristics Approach,” Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGCPR Conference, April 3-5, 1997, San Francisco, California, USA, F. Niederman, ed., ACM Press, NY, pp. 127-137.

Dale L. Goodhue, Diane Lending, Russell Littlefield, and Detmar W. Straub (1993).  “Methods for Measuring the Impact of an Integrated Information Center,” Proceedings of the 56th Annual American Society for Information Science Meeting, Columbus Ohio, October 24-28, 1993, Learned Info, Medford, N.J., pp. 225-230.

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Conference Presentations not Published

Thomas W. Dillon, Diane Lending, and Chelley Vician (2005).  “Quality of Care and the Technology Acceptance of Nurses,” presented at the IACIS 2005 conference, October 2005.

Diane Lending, Thomas W. Dillon,  and Chelley Vician (2005).  “Patient Record Privacy and Accuracy and their Effects on the Adoption of Hospital Patient-care Information Systems,” presented at the IACIS 2005 conference, October 2005.

Claire Crutchley, Diane Lending and Beverly Marshall.  “The Value of Being First:  Internet IPOs in New Technology ‘Niches’ Versus Subsequent Entrants,” presented at the Eastern Finance Association conference, April 27, 2001.

George D'Elia, Joseph Branin, et al. (1995).  “The Implementation and Evaluation of an Integrated Information Center in an Academic Environment.”  This paper was winner of the 1995 ALISE (Association of Library and Information Science Educators) Research Paper Competition and was presented at the 1995 ALISE conference by George D'Elia.

Diane Lending (1994).  “The Effect of CASE Technology on Systems Development Jobs: A Job Characteristics Approach,” research in progress presented at the OASIS'94  Organizations and Information Systems Workshop, IFIP 8.2 Working Group, Vancouver BC, December 17, 1994.

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Textbooks used at James Madison University but not published

Diane Lending and Carey Cole (2010). New Adventures in Access 2007, Prentice-Hall.

Diane Lending and Carey Cole (2008). Adventures in Access 2007, 2nd edition, McGraw-Hill Primis.

Diane Lending and Carey Cole (2007).  Adventures in FrontPage, McGraw-Hill Primis.

Carey Cole and Diane Lending (2007).  Adventures in Access 2007, McGraw-Hill Primis.

Carey Cole and Diane Lending (2007).  Adventures in Access 2003, McGraw-Hill Primis.

Diane Lending and Carey Cole (2006).  Adventures in Access and FrontPage, McGraw-Hill Primis.

Diane Lending and Carey Cole (2005).  Adventures in FrontPage, McGraw-Hill Primis.

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ACM SIGMIS:  Vice Chair, 2005-2009, Information Director, 2002 -2004, SIGCPR Committee Chair, 2004 – 2005

ACM SIGMIS CPR Conference:  Conference Chair SIGMIS CPR 2008, Program Chair SIGMIS CPR 2007, Treasurer SIGMIS CPR 2003,  Treasurer SIGCPR 2001, Publicity Chair SIGCPR 2000; Program Committee SIGCPR, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008-2011. 

Chair of CLEP Information Systems and Computer Applications test development committee, College Board, 2008 – present, member 2007-2008.

Reviewer for Journals:  CACM; Data Base; European Journal of Information System; Human Resources Management; Information Systems Management; Information Systems Research; Information, Technology, Learning and Performance Journal; Information and Management; Journal of Information Systems Education, MIS Quarterly;

Conferences: Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS); IACIS, International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS); SIGMIS CPR; and Southeast DSI Conference.

Professional Associations

Association for Information Systems (AIS)

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

ACM Special Interest Group on MIS (SIGMIS). 

James Madison University Committees: 

CIS & MS Program:

Chair of CIS ABET Reaccreditation Committee, 2009 - present.

Chair of CIS Assessment Committee, 2007-present

Chair of COB 204 Coordination and Assessment Committee, 2000-2007. 

Chair of CIS 454 Coordination Committee, 2003-present.

Member of COB204 Coordination and Assessment Committee, 2007 – present.

Member of CIS & MS Journal Ranking Committee, 2006.

Member of CIS & MS Awards Committee, 2005 - present.

Member of CIS & MS Program Director Search Committee, 2004

Member of PAC Committee, 2003-present, Chair 2006-2007.

Member of CIS/OM C&I Committee, 2002-2003.

Member of CIS/OM Faculty Search Committee, 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2009, 2010.

Member of CIS/OM Research Evaluation Committee, 2000-2001.

College: 

Member of COB, Curriculum Task Force, 2007-2008

Member of COB, Planning and Budget Committee, 2005- 2007

Member of COB, Grants and Awards Committee, 2005-2006.

Member of COB, Best Paper Award Committee, 2005

Member of COB, Best Paper Award Committee, 2001.

University:

                   Honor Council member

                   Bookstore Advisory Committee member 2006-present.

Help Desk Program Review Committee, 2002.

                   Technology Testing Committee, 2002.

                   Freshmen Advisor Advisory Board, 2004.

Freshman Adviser, 2002-2005.

                   Conversations with Faculty, Freshman Orientation, 2001-present.

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TRAINING

Object-Oriented Analysis and Design using UML, Learning Tree International, July 2004.

WORK EXPERIENCE (NON-ACADEMIC)