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  FLOOD! (Part 2) Greg O'Brien speaks on equity finance opportunities within higher education. A discussion with Doug Dolton continues. Remember Space Food Sticks? Perhaps your course descriptions are too clinical? Leslie Garner tells us how innovation on his campus thirty years ago continues to pay dividends to students and faculty today.
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 International career services are mission critical by Stacie Nevadomski Berdan
It could involve enhancing study abroad efforts with cross-cultural preparation and international coursework. It could include outside experts who can provide relevant and real-life examples to students on how to navigate a specific country or marketplace. It could involve tweaking instruction in certain languages to decrease literature and increase social and business contexts. Discerning employers are looking for new hires who are work-ready and global. Sometimes campus programs need not be formal. Take Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas for example. According to Brian Hirsch, director of career services, “For the past several years, we’ve been including informational resources and workshops to a large number of students who themselves expressed interest in working abroad.”
His office collaborates with another - the International Programs Office - to ensure students’ needs are met. One is networking, a skill he considers “the absolute key” to providing students with the best chance possible to succeed by opening doors not necessarily found on campus. Today’s students need more than a great education to succeed. Career services that include relevant exposure to the international marketplace and outside advisors will help them get started on the path to global success.
Stacie Nevadomski Berdan has spent years living and working abroad. She is a speaker and co-author of Get Ahead By Going Abroad: A Woman’s Guide to Fast-Track Career Success. Reach her at StacieNBerdan@aol.com or 203.228.4062.
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With short-term, high-risk solutions being hailed as the way to keep the American economy from falling off a cliff, is anyone thinking about the future? Today’s students have no choice. They must consider their career options in an economy undergoing significant readjustment. Universities and colleges can help them do so by adapting their career services operations to a more global scope.The theme of Elliott Masie’s annual conference is “All About Learning”: classroom, e-Learning, gaming, coaching and reading books. And, Masie promises, it will be “a lot of fun.” October 26 to October 29, Disney's Coronado Springs Convention Center, Orlando, $1195 - $1295
See more upcoming conferences on GreentreeGazette.com.
“The music industry will never return to the glory days when people bought millions of copies of a single physical CD full of songs, some of which they wanted to buy and some of which they didn’t, because that was the only choice they had. A desperate music industry is shackled to a 20th century business model, and it's trying to force colleges to create an infrastructure for electronic spying. It’s unacceptable, and an issue on which all colleges and universities should take a stand.”
Kevin Carey, research and policy manager of Education Sector, writing in Inside Higher Ed.
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