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As I reflect on my journey through higher education, I find myself looking back on a career that began in the small, rural community of Calhoun in Lowndes County, Alabama. [...]

A 'new norm' has taken flight in doing business with our nations colleges. Perspectives and expectations based on work from home that began during the COVID-19 pandemic spawned changes in [...]

In a rapidly changing society riddled with economic uncertainties, demographic shifts, political infighting, declining workforce participation rates, rising inflation, rising attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, and a technological [...]

OMICRON DELTA EPSILON CHAPTER ROLL SCHOOL CHAPTER ADVISOR Alabama Auburn University-Auburn Alpha Richard W. Ault University of Alabama- Beta James Cover Tuscaloosa University of Alabama- Gamma Sarah E. Culver Birmingham [...]

Theories of entrepreneurship have proposed that entrepreneurs are shaped by contextual influences. This paper examines the social transmission of entrepreneurial behavior across university peers. I propose that peers acquainted at [...]

In this article the author discusses the role that committees play within a university's bureaucracy. This article takes a close look at key committees on the university campus and how they shape policy and practice. It explores how committees can prove to be a vital and needed avenue to change. The author sees committees as 'the life blood of a university' and discusses how they have become ingrained and institutionalize within the university system regardless of the size of the institution. The article concludes that although committees are flawed and often used to trumpet personal agendas they can in the end be beneficial to the smooth and efficient running of a university., Committee! The dreaded nine letter word that spreads loathing and frustration throughout the academic community. Those within the university setting know the word all too well. Even though most universities [...]

In light of the recent economic downturn, the introduction and instruction of methods and practices related to plant and facility closings are topics that are long overdue as part of the Operations Management course content presented in our Business Schools. Operations Management textbooks provide little to no coverage of operations shutdown for plant closing. As a result, this topic is frequently excluded from Operations Management courses. Two elements missing from most OM courses are a textbook chapter covering the closing process and in-class exercises/activities related to applying that process. This paper addresses the key topics needed for a textbook chapter dealing with the operational aspects of closing a facility. Such topics include employee impact (and dealing with employee retraining), the WARN act (including ERISA issues), inventory disposition, and quality control. Teaching notes for each section are included, with an overall discussion of class activities related to the topics. We provide educators with a best practices approach to teaching students how to handle the operation of the plant in this difficult time. There are activities that the operations manager should start doing, stop doing and keep doing. A frank, practical experience-based perspective is given. U kontekstu nedavne ekonomske krize, pristupi upoznavanju i poducavanju metoda i prakse povezanih sa zatvaranjem pogona, u okviru programa operacijskog menadzmenta poslovnih skola, vec su odavno zastarjeli. Udzbenici operacijskog menadzmenta ne pruzaju nikakav ili tek vrlo oskudan sadrzaj problematike zaustavljanja poslovanja i zatvaranja pogona, zbog cega se ova tema cesto iskljucuje iz sadrzaja ovog kolegija. Sadrzaji koji najzesce nedostaju u udzbenicima operacijskog menadzmenta odnose se na poglavlje koje bi obradilo proces zatvaranja pogona, kao i vjezbe, odnosno aktivnosti, kojima bi se ilustrirala primjena ovog procesa. U ovoj se studiji slucaja iznose kljucni elementi koje bi trebalo ukljuciti u udzbenicki sadrzaj, a u sto su ukljuceni: djelovanje na zaposlenike (i njihovo ponovno obucavanje), (americki, op. pred.) pravni propisi koji se odnose na obavjestavanje zaposlenika o zatvaranju pogona i njihov status u podrucju mirovinskog i zdravstvenog osiguranja, oslobadanje od zaliha i kontrolu kvalitete. Razvijene su i biljeske za izvedbu predavanja za svaki od elemenata koji se poducavaju, kao i naputci za aktivnosti studenata, koje se odnose na ovu problematiku. Pritom se koristi najbolja poslovna praksa, kako bi se studentima prikazalo upravljanje poslovanjem pogona u ovako teskoj poslovnoj situaciji, pri cemu se naglasavaju aktivnosti koje bi proizvodni menadzer trebao zapoceti, koje treba odrzavati, odnosno aktivnosti koje treba zaustaviti. Pritom se koristi iskrena i prakticna perspektiva., 1. INTRODUCTION Businesses come and go. While much has been written concerning the fundamental decision process of whether or not to close a facility, little is done to prepare management [...]

ABSTRACT Interdisciplinary collaboration in higher education can produce valuable learning experiences beyond that of a single discipline approach. The University of Detroit Mercy College of Engineering and College of Health [...]

COLLEGE STUDENTS HAVE inflated perceptions of how much alcohol their peers drink (Borsari and Carey, 2001; Perkins and Berkowitz, 1986). Some prevention experts have called for widespread campus-based social norms [...], Objective: Evaluations of social norms marketing campaigns to reduce college student drinking have produced conflicting results. This study examines whether the effectiveness of such campaigns may be moderated by on-premise alcohol outlet density in the surrounding community. Method: Multilevel analyses were conducted of student survey responses (N = 19,838) from 32 U.S. colleges that took part in one of two 4-year randomized, controlled trials completed for the Social Norms Marketing Research Project (SNMRP). In the models, students by year were nested within treatment (n = 16) and control group (n = 16) campuses, which were characterized by the on-premise outlet density in their surrounding community. The moderating effect of outlet density was introduced into the models as an interaction between the treatment effect (i.e., the effect of the social norms marketing campaigns over time) and outlet density. The models were also stratified by campus alcohol outlet density (high vs. low) to examine the effect of the intervention in each type of setting. Results: There was a significant interaction between the treatment effect and on-premise alcohol outlet density for one of the drinking outcomes targeted by the SNMRP intervention, the number of drinks when partying, and marginal evidence of interaction effects for two other outcomes, maximum recent consumption and a composite drinking scale. In stratified analyses, an intervention effect was observed for three of the four outcomes among students from campuses with lower on-premise alcohol outlet density, whereas no intervention effect was observed among students from campuses with higher on-premise alcohol outlet density. Conclusions: The findings suggest that the campus alcohol environment moderates the effect of social norms marketing interventions. Social norms marketing intervention may be less effective on campuses with higher densities of on-sale alcohol outlets. (J. Stud. Alcohol Drugs. 72. 232-239, 2011)

This paper offers an integrative theory, through the use of transaction cost theory principles, that attempts to match the attributes of university-held innovations with the specific organizational form that best [...]

Throughout history, colleges and universities have played a critical role in providing society with a forum for cross-disciplinary dialogue on the vital themes of the day. For example, the peace [...]

Introduction: The New Competitiveness in North American Higher Education ********** The past decade has witnessed a sea change in ideologies about higher education in North America and in many countries [...]

Introduction In the early 1990s, following numerous reports criticizing colleges and universities for inadequate responsiveness, a number of higher education leaders began advocating 'total quality management' (TQM) principles borrowed from [...]

Removed from the mainstream of American higher education, out on the edge, stand a handful of undergraduate colleges commonly referred to as distinctive, innovative, or experimental. Some are private, others [...]

In 'Science and the Entrepreneurial University' (Issues, Summer 2010), Richard C. Atkinson and Patricia A. Pelfrey remind us of the extent to which the U.S. economy is increasingly driven by [...]