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Dotys R Us

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Given all the hullabaloo about the digital MBA that came up last semester, I thought the following article could be interesting:

MBA Retooling

Notice what these highly regarded (at least moreso than USM) programs are focusing on --- the "managerial skill set" (presentation skills, etc.), more specialization, etc. In particular, a student's presentation skills are difficult if not impossible to gauge in a digital format.

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Miss Manners

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Dotys R Us wrote:

] Notice what these highly regarded (at least moreso than USM) programs are focusing on --- the "managerial skill set" (presentation skills, etc......
If it's "presentation skills" you want your students to acquire, you need to hire me. I can turn a sow's ear into a porkskin.....

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Cajun Days and Chameleon Nights

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More importantly, how can we have a wine tasting session and a ropes training experience in the digital format? For some unknown reason, I did not see those 2 items mentioned in the retooling article.

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Union Jack

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No wonder so many corporations are going bankrupt.

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Blue Horseshoe

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Miss Manners:

Can you also help the poor dears in the MBA program to speak and write in English, to be on time, to wear appropriate clothing, to not have an entitlement mindset, and to try their best?

Bless you.

B.H.

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Deja vu

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Union Jack wrote:
No wonder so many corporations are going bankrupt.


That would also be due to a lack of courses in law and ethics. There never has been a law class of any kind in the MBA program, and the "ethics" course is taken on the way out the door in the Summer by most MBA students. More and more students seem to have "issues" with what is right and wrong, and many also seem to live in a situational ethics world that is devoid of absolutes. Apparently the other classes of perceived higher value to not help in these areas.

In many ways "we" are not helping our students prepare for careers. Adding another layer of distance to the mix with a digital MBA will not help the students.

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Mission: Impossible

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But I thought the CoB's mission was "Developing Careers." Are you suggesting that perhaps a real career is bolstered by a strong sense of right and wrong?

Maybe we need to retrain USM administrators. I'll get the jumper cables, you get the battery.

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Rod T.

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I thought the mission of the COB Admin was "Hiring Hotties"

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Cross Training

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Thought the COB farmed out its ethics courses to profs in COAL?

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greta

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Rod T. wrote:

I thought the mission of the COB Admin was "Hiring Hotties"
Don't know about that one (?).  I thought it was "Bungling Job Searches" but I could be wrong.

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CoB Cinemas

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greta wrote:
Rod T. wrote:
I thought the mission of the COB Admin was "Hiring Hotties"
Don't know about that one (?).  I thought it was "Bungling Job Searches" but I could be wrong.


Faculty are being replaced by staff at an alarming rate. Whenever possible the staff are young females with nice forms.

CoB - old guys + young girls = thebestdamnhousepartyintheBurgbaby!

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astonished

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Actually, I thought it was staff being replaced by faculty. Have you tried to get anything clerical done by a staff member lately?

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CoB Cinemas

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astonished wrote:
Actually, I thought it was staff being replaced by faculty. Have you tried to get anything clerical done by a staff member lately?


The academic advisers are all paid from what were formerly faculty lines. The new coordinator of alternative learning is being paid with a line that formerly provided tech support to the CoB and instruction to students. Sounds like faculty being replaced by staff to me.

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Astonished II

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How often do the advisors actually advise compared to sending the students to the academic departments.  I hear that there is little success in getting the advisors to learn how to advise.  Why were they hired if they don't want to advise?  Business students are not happy with the advisement in the college.

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Duh

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Actually, I thought it was staff being replaced by faculty. Have you tried to get anything clerical done by a staff member lately?
Learn to use a computer. Surely you realize by now that all that moola goes into computers in order to enable the faculty to do their own typing and other things previously done by clerks and secretaries. University faculties, here and elsewhere, have been duped and don't realize it.  

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Reasonable Doubt

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Duh wrote:

Surely you realize by now that all that moola goes into computers in order to enable the faculty to do their own typing and other things previously done by clerks and secretaries. University faculties, here and elsewhere, have been duped and don't realize it.  
Yeah, astonished. Type your own manuscripts. It's not like it was in the good old days.

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