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Date: Feb 28, 2006

A Little Off Topic, but you'll appreciate

Date: Feb 28, 2006

Hey, that sounds like one of my graduate students. No, I'm not kidding. It's pathetic.

Date: Feb 28, 2006

It really is distressing. No wonder organizations are cutting back on college recruiting.

Date: Feb 28, 2006

Depressed Professor wrote:

It really is distressing. No wonder organizations are cutting back on college recruiting.

Indeed. Dare I say it? The politically correct notion that everyone is college material, or if not, can somehow be molded into college material, is patently ridiculous.

Date: Feb 28, 2006

Depressed Professor wrote:

I gave an essay midterm in my Human Resource Management class. Here is an example of one question and an actual student response. This level of response was not an outlier...while I got a few good answers, I'd estimate that about 50% of the responses on each question were of this quality. “(20 pts) Identify strategies for dealing with both a labor shortage and a labor surplus. Recommend the best strategy for each condition and justify your recommendation.” If it is a labor shortage then I would question why was it a labor shortage. I would try develop different strategies in order to fix the problem. I think there are a couple of strategies in trying to fix the labor shortage. One strategy would be to go or call the people in charge of the organization’s labor, and ask them if they did not give the company enough labor. If they say no, then I would ask for more labor. If there is a labor surplus, I would not do anything.”

Depressed Professor, what's the story with your dept chair?

Date: Feb 28, 2006

There may not be any story about the management chair yet, though I have heard a rumor that he has winged or will wing his way on a campus visit for a dean's job.

Date: Feb 28, 2006

Southern Justice wrote:

There may not be any story about the management chair yet, though I have heard a rumor that he has winged or will wing his way on a campus visit for a dean's job.

I heard he's getting a counter offer (big) and will stay at USM.

Date: Feb 28, 2006

things that are comcastic wrote:

Depressed Professor wrote:
I gave an essay midterm in my Human Resource Management class. Here is an example of one question and an actual student response. This level of response was not an outlier...while I got a few good answers, I'd estimate that about 50% of the responses on each question were of this quality. “(20 pts) Identify strategies for dealing with both a labor shortage and a labor surplus. Recommend the best strategy for each condition and justify your recommendation.” If it is a labor shortage then I would question why was it a labor shortage. I would try develop different strategies in order to fix the problem. I think there are a couple of strategies in trying to fix the labor shortage. One strategy would be to go or call the people in charge of the organization’s labor, and ask them if they did not give the company enough labor. If they say no, then I would ask for more labor. If there is a labor surplus, I would not do anything.”
Depressed Professor, what's the story with your dept chair?

Date: Feb 28, 2006

things that are comcastic wrote:

Depressed Professor wrote:
I gave an essay midterm in my Human Resource Management class. Here is an example of one question and an actual student response. This level of response was not an outlier...while I got a few good answers, I'd estimate that about 50% of the responses on each question were of this quality. “(20 pts) Identify strategies for dealing with both a labor shortage and a labor surplus. Recommend the best strategy for each condition and justify your recommendation.” If it is a labor shortage then I would question why was it a labor shortage. I would try develop different strategies in order to fix the problem. I think there are a couple of strategies in trying to fix the labor shortage. One strategy would be to go or call the people in charge of the organization’s labor, and ask them if they did not give the company enough labor. If they say no, then I would ask for more labor. If there is a labor surplus, I would not do anything.”
Depressed Professor, what's the story with your dept chair?

Sorry...this is not at USM....similar state university in another state.

Date: Feb 28, 2006

Depressed Professor wrote:

I gave an essay midterm in my Human Resource Management class. Here is an example of one question and an actual student response. This level of response was not an outlier...while I got a few good answers, I'd estimate that about 50% of the responses on each question were of this quality. “(20 pts) Identify strategies for dealing with both a labor shortage and a labor surplus. Recommend the best strategy for each condition and justify your recommendation.” If it is a labor shortage then I would question why was it a labor shortage. I would try develop different strategies in order to fix the problem. I think there are a couple of strategies in trying to fix the labor shortage. One strategy would be to go or call the people in charge of the organization’s labor, and ask them if they did not give the company enough labor. If they say no, then I would ask for more labor. If there is a labor surplus, I would not do anything.”

This is a by-product of the affirmative action mind-set. Everyone 's a scholar deep down.If someone does bad,it's because of their poor lot in life. If they are different looking from most folks let's admit them and give them special favors.

Date: Feb 28, 2006

It seems as if students actually get dumber as they increase in their years of education. Not everyone fits so nicely into your odd little boxes. Look at Benjamin Franklin, one of our founding Fathers. He had but one year of formal education. it might have been the Masonic influence....but I'd like to think that it was his work ethic. I'd like to blame the educators for passing such a student, yet I have a hard time imagining why such a student would find himself to be college material.

Date: Feb 28, 2006

Everybody's beautiful wrote:

This is a by-product of the affirmative action mind-set. Everyone 's a scholar deep down.If someone does bad,it's because of their poor lot in life. If they are different looking from most folks let's admit them and give them special favors.

Total unmitigated garbage. Dumb knows no color.

Date: Feb 28, 2006

LVN wrote:

Everybody's beautiful wrote:

This is a by-product of the affirmative action mind-set. Everyone 's a scholar deep down.If someone does bad,it's because of their poor lot in life. If they are different looking from most folks let's admit them and give them special favors.

Total unmitigated garbage. Dumb knows no color.

What you're seeing is the byproduct of an administration that is desperate for tuition dollars and the state funding that accompanies headcount. It wouldn't matter what color the students were, just as long as they have a pulse.

Date: Feb 28, 2006

Buzzer wrote:

What you're seeing is the byproduct of an administration that is desperate for tuition dollars and the state funding that accompanies headcount. It wouldn't matter what color the students were, just as long as they have a pulse.

And it doesn't matter who the leader (president, administrator, dean, etc) is as long as he can control......and follow orders from above.

Date: Feb 28, 2006

I haven't heard that kind of double talk since the last presidential election.

We have a budding politican on our hands there. Yeeesh.