Virginia Franke Kleist, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Management Information Systems

College of Business and Economics

West Virginia University

 

 

Address:

Virginia Franke Kleist, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Management Information Systems

Division of Management

College of Business and Economics

PO Box 6025

West Virginia University

Morgantown, WV 26506-6025

Voice:

304.293.7939 

Fax:

304.293.5652

Office:

318 College of Business and Economics Building. 

Email:

 Virginia.kleist at mail dot wvu dot edu

 

Selected Courses (see WVU eCampus for current syllabi, Power Point Slides, Handouts and Teaching Pages):  

 

MBA BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 534:  Management Information Systems

MIST 355:  Data Communications and Networks

MANAGEMENT 493L:  The Management and Technology of Electronic Commerce

MIST 356:  Network Security

MIST 420:  Business Information Systems

ACCOUNTING 522:  Electronic Commerce and Internet Security for Accounting

ACCOUNTING 521:  Information Technology Auditing

MBA ESSENTIALS and EXECUTIVE MBA (ONLINE AND FACE-TO-FACE), FRAUD AND THE DIGITAL ENVIRONMENT, FRAUD DATA ANALYSIS SEMINARS

 

 Education:

 

Career Accomplishments

 

·        Tenured Associate Professor of Management Information Systems, West Virginia University, Tenure obtained 2006

·        International Conference of Information Systems (ICIS) Best Dissertation Award, Brisbane AU; “Information Technology and Information Goods Intensity as Predictors of Organizational Expansion Activity,” Dr. William R. King, Advisor, Dec. 2000

·        Chair of the Faculty Senate at West Virginia University representing 2300 faculty members, 2008-2009

·        West Virginia University Foundation Outstanding Teaching Award 2003, WVU College of Business and Economics Outstanding Teaching Award, 2002

·        West Virginia University College of Business and Economics Outstanding Service Award, 2009

·        J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board (FSB), Fulbright Specialist Award, served at the National Mining University, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, 2011

·        Marquette University Merit Scholarship, Who’s Who in America 2009, Beta Gamma Sigma, Cum Laude, University of Pittsburgh Graduate Fellow, Ernst and Young ICIS Doctoral Consortium Fellow

·        Ten years of experience with technology management positions at Allegheny Health Education and Research Foundation (parent of AGH), Joy Global (formerly Joy Technologies), PNC Corporation, Verizon Communications (formerly GTE Corporation); responsibility for operational and capital technology budgets

·        Chaired Committee on Shared Governance with focus on advancing positive Faculty/Board of Governors/Administration relationships

·        External grant funding experience as co-PI with large teams of researchers, three time reviewer for National Science Foundation

·        Extensive strategic planning experience: Member WVU IT Strategic Plan, 2012, formulation team of West Virginia University 2010 Plan, Member University 2010 Plan Implementation Steering Committee, current member Shady Side Academy Strategic Planning Steering Committee (Pittsburgh, PA), roles with Allegheny Health Education and Research Foundation (AHERF) Strategic Plan, AHERF Telecommunications Plan, Joy Technologies Technology Strategic Plan, GTE strategic plan

·        Board Member, River Valley Chapter, American Red Cross, 2011

Dissertation Topic:  (2000 ICIS Best Dissertation Award Winner)

"Information Technology and Information Goods Firms: A Predictive Model of Vertical and Horizontal Boundary Change."