Barbara Price, Ph.D.

Professor

Barbara Price received her B.S. in Mathematics from Grove City College in 1969. In 1971, she earned her M.S. in Statistics from Virginia Tech and her Ph.D. in 1973. She has worked in various academic positions throughout the southeast, served as an exchange professor at Deakin University in Australia, taught at Winthrop University, and served as both professor and chair for the Department of Information Systems and Logistics and founding director for the School of Information Technology at Georgia Southern University. Most recently, Dr. Price was appointed professor of Quantitative Analysis. She is active in several professional societies including the DSI (At-large Vice President 2001-2003 and Curricular Issues Program Coordinator for DSI 2004), ACM, IAIM, INFORMS, and the AIS. She has over fifty publications in various professional journals and proceedings.

   The recent focus of her career has been in academic administration. Research has also gravitated to academic administration issues. Current active projects deal with assessment, curricular issues, and demographic characteristics of IT students. In addition, Price served as methodologist for a doctoral dissertation on the topic of planning and effectiveness for the IT function in higher education.

   With the development of the BS/IT at Georgia Southern, Price regained an interest and enthusiasm for information technology and the theory and concepts that support the field. She serves as one of ACM's Alternate CSAB Representative Directors, a member of the Editorial Review Board of Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, and as an IS Program Evaluator.

   Locally, Price serves as Faculty Secretary of the Georgia Southern University Circle of Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honorary, Faculty Advisor of Circle K of Georgia Southern University, a member of Statesboro Kiwanis and the Statesboro-Bulloch Chamber of Commerce, and elder and treasurer of the First Presbyterian Church of Statesboro.