I would agree that this is extreme, but there are programs out that place more emphasis on the tool set, especially community colleges and technical colleges which prepare their students for employment. How many courses in finance or economics don't use Excel, for example?
I don't disagree that it was unsettling. From what I understand, the CEO is a Hunter alum, a keynote speaker at one convocation, and sought to develop ties with his alma mater.
If the problem is "outside" course content, this is done on a regular basis. Textbook publishers do this often.
Also, not to belabor this, an adjunct, in other words a temp, has absolutely no authority to change course content. Obviously some F/T faculty member in the department did.
This isn't a question of RTA. It isn't clear if this is Marketing 101 or not. It could have been a topics course.
Professors teach courses outside of their departments all the time, sometimes without any expertise. I work at a university and have been told this-- I've had the same concern. It comes with job. As for the curriculum, well, many are already set up by the textbooks and their publishers just by virtue of selecting the text. Some professors are too busy and will just review a text, make sure they don't have any problems with it and select the choice parts.
Students, especially in technology and business programs, like to receive real hands-on experience. These courses review case studies of real companies facing real challenges on a regular basis. In any other situation, students doing work for credit at a private firm would be considered an internship. There's no real difference, so what's different here? Coach has a counterfeiting problem. How do marketing and PR students handle this? They explored the idea of using a fake blog. It was academic research. Nothing new here- this is consistently done all the time in psychology: the double blind experiment.
I don't see a problem with the sponsorship either. Indirectly, students become indoctrinated (others would say specialized) with "corporate" branding throughout their studies anyway. Math and statistics courses tend to focus on using certain packages, for example Mathematica and SPSS. In computer science, it's either the Microsoft suite or specific open source products like MySQL (why not PostgreSQL?) Likewise, biology labs tend to use certain methods with corresponding complex equipment like DNA sequencers, PCR kits, RNA microarrays, etc., especially in biotech courses. Some skills are learned in school that way.
Get the job done: master project management. PMP style training of any sort is good.
Know what to expect and what is to be expected: The American Management Association is a good resource for career-minded people.
Nowadays, you manage projects, not employees. You manage expectations. Let HR deal with the humans.
Electrionic voting is fundamentally flawed. The purpose of voting is to demonstrate the will of the collective masses. If we as society decide that we vote via absentee ballot, web, smartcard, carrier pigeon, etc, we fail to do the one thing that makes it valid - we fail to demonstrate in force that the people have spoken. For some of us, we live in the luxury of only fearing which 'lesser of two evils' will preside, but some of us have to fear vote tampering, rigging, etc.
Assuming the United States went to absentee ballots 10 or 20 years ago, if voting used the same rules as today, voters could not be certain of the validity of the outcome. There are many reasons, for example, the ballots are not sent to confirmed addresses, the letters are not certified, the voter does not know when the completed ballot has been received, etc, etc.
The strength of going out to vote in public is that it demonstrates, by the numbers, that the people have spoken, and not only does the current regime see it, there are other witnesses present as well.
The last couple of years, @stake has published somewhat negative reviews of linux and other opensource operating systems in comparison with Windows, namely Windows 2000. (I wish I could find the links.)
It seems that @stake wants to establish itself as a neutral industry analysis group like META. Clearly they don't want to jeopardize the potential income from Microsoft.
Or do music interests in Finland not care about their 'art' and only profit? Does anyone know how music in Finland is copyrighted with such vehemence? What's the deal?
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I would agree that this is extreme, but there are programs out that place more emphasis on the tool set, especially community colleges and technical colleges which prepare their students for employment. How many courses in finance or economics don't use Excel, for example?
I don't disagree that it was unsettling. From what I understand, the CEO is a Hunter alum, a keynote speaker at one convocation, and sought to develop ties with his alma mater.
If the problem is "outside" course content, this is done on a regular basis. Textbook publishers do this often.
Also, not to belabor this, an adjunct, in other words a temp, has absolutely no authority to change course content. Obviously some F/T faculty member in the department did.
This isn't a question of RTA. It isn't clear if this is Marketing 101 or not. It could have been a topics course.
Professors teach courses outside of their departments all the time, sometimes without any expertise. I work at a university and have been told this-- I've had the same concern. It comes with job. As for the curriculum, well, many are already set up by the textbooks and their publishers just by virtue of selecting the text. Some professors are too busy and will just review a text, make sure they don't have any problems with it and select the choice parts.
Students, especially in technology and business programs, like to receive real hands-on experience. These courses review case studies of real companies facing real challenges on a regular basis. In any other situation, students doing work for credit at a private firm would be considered an internship. There's no real difference, so what's different here? Coach has a counterfeiting problem. How do marketing and PR students handle this? They explored the idea of using a fake blog. It was academic research. Nothing new here- this is consistently done all the time in psychology: the double blind experiment.
I don't see a problem with the sponsorship either. Indirectly, students become indoctrinated (others would say specialized) with "corporate" branding throughout their studies anyway. Math and statistics courses tend to focus on using certain packages, for example Mathematica and SPSS. In computer science, it's either the Microsoft suite or specific open source products like MySQL (why not PostgreSQL?) Likewise, biology labs tend to use certain methods with corresponding complex equipment like DNA sequencers, PCR kits, RNA microarrays, etc., especially in biotech courses. Some skills are learned in school that way.
Get the job done: master project management. PMP style training of any sort is good. Know what to expect and what is to be expected: The American Management Association is a good resource for career-minded people. Nowadays, you manage projects, not employees. You manage expectations. Let HR deal with the humans.
Is the submission process breaking? This is not slashdot news. It's spam, or an attempt to get a lot of linking.
Electrionic voting is fundamentally flawed. The purpose of voting is to demonstrate the will of the collective masses. If we as society decide that we vote via absentee ballot, web, smartcard, carrier pigeon, etc, we fail to do the one thing that makes it valid - we fail to demonstrate in force that the people have spoken. For some of us, we live in the luxury of only fearing which 'lesser of two evils' will preside, but some of us have to fear vote tampering, rigging, etc. Assuming the United States went to absentee ballots 10 or 20 years ago, if voting used the same rules as today, voters could not be certain of the validity of the outcome. There are many reasons, for example, the ballots are not sent to confirmed addresses, the letters are not certified, the voter does not know when the completed ballot has been received, etc, etc. The strength of going out to vote in public is that it demonstrates, by the numbers, that the people have spoken, and not only does the current regime see it, there are other witnesses present as well.
The last couple of years, @stake has published somewhat negative reviews of linux and other opensource operating systems in comparison with Windows, namely Windows 2000. (I wish I could find the links.) It seems that @stake wants to establish itself as a neutral industry analysis group like META. Clearly they don't want to jeopardize the potential income from Microsoft.
It would make a lot more sense if this technology was applied to grounded vehicles first. A la BladeRunner, etc.
This is the new version of $600 toliet seats..
Or do music interests in Finland not care about their 'art' and only profit? Does anyone know how music in Finland is copyrighted with such vehemence? What's the deal?