The Association for Information Systems' College of Senior Scholars decided to expand their list of designated "premier journals" in our field from 8 to 11. What does this mean? How are these decisions being made? Who makes these decisions? We explore these questions with our good old friend Cathy Urquhart who has been a member of the task force that championed this decision. With her, we discuss politics in the information systems community, the governance of our community, and the question of how our journals and conferences could or should operate.

As usual, the references to readings we mention are listed on http://www.janrecker.com/this-is-research-podcast/.