Project Management Case Studies These case studies represent a range of projects in different libraries. They are all based on real events. The participating librarians were asked to provide details of projects within the headings used in the case study template which is located at the end of this document. Each case study is presented using these headings to enable the reader to make comparisons between the projects but there is some slight variation of style and detail. Although some editing
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FAR EASTERN UNIVERSITY January 2013 RESEARCH DIGEST UNIVERSITY COUNSELING AND CAREER OFFICE An Annual Publication of UCCO Volume 1 Issue 2 Continuously Contributing to the Holistic Development of FEU Students This research digest is an informative tool of the University Counseling and Career Office with its major goal, to analyze and contribute novel ideas, towards the growing field of guidance and counseling. The main objective of which is to intensify the holistic welfare of the
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The Ted Rogers School of Business Management and The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education Course ID: CACC 504 Course Name: Accounting Cases and Concepts Session: Spring/Summer 2015 Instructor Information Name: Joel Shapiro Phone: HOME - (416) 485-9142 FAX – (416) 485-9105 RYERSON – (416) 979-5000 ext 6743 E-mail: shapiro@ryerson.ca Ryerson Office Location: TRS2-121 Approximate Office Hours: Mondays & Wednesdays 5-6 PM and after classes COURSE Information
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1.0 Introduction A grading system plays a key role in the management system of any school. But, such system does not often relate expectations, outcomes, and performance. As each student desires to achieve a good score for each assignment, exam, project and/or report, the whole process adds heavy workload for professors in order to make their evaluation fair, comprehensive, and accurate. Form the department perspective, these are necessary to avoid disagreement from students and parents. Grades monitoring
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Online Education and the Adult Student Never before in the history of academics has it been so easy to attend an institution of higher learning. With advances in technology, people are interconnected on a global level. This capability to communicate over vast distances has enabled educational institutions across the world to offer what was once thought impossible… A college degree earned by way of online learning. This unprecedented offering would now offer an educational opportunity to adults
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“Undecided,” and “In Transition”: Implications for Academic Advisement, Career Counseling, & Student Retention Joe Cuseo Introduction The objective of this article is twofold: (a) to critically review research on how students’ process of decision making with respect to selecting college majors and careers relates to their persistence in college, and (b) to tease-out practical implications of this research for improving the academic advisement, long-range planning, and retention of first-year
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Anti-Bullying Programs Maryann Johnston DeVry University Anti-Bullying Programs “You may have noticed that this years’ trendy trauma is bullying, which replaces last years’ obesity.” (Nachman, 2011). In his article Gerald Nachman recounts how years ago it was a part of being a kid in school to be teased at some point and it made you a stronger person to come through school surviving the process. There has been an increase in the sensational media coverage of violence attributed to bullying
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organizational structure of an institution. The UNTHSC at Forth Worth decided to institute cultural changes as a form of monitoring and influencing the change process. The initial element of the measurement process incorporated administrative, academic, clinical practice, research application, financial elements, and community goals. A baseline measure was associated with current levels of operations. The management team was held accountable in regard to focusing on four areas of measurement
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These pages were downloaded from Writing Personal Statements Online, available at https://www.e-education.psu.edu/writingpersonalstatementsonline/ Short Personal Statement by a Geology Student Growing up in Canada with a life-long fascination for Canadian geography, I have always been interested in returning to the country. Although my family moved to the US before I entered high school, I have always kept my eyes turned north, especially in recent years as I began to read journal
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CORPORATE E-LEARNING: EXPLORING A NEW FRONTIER Trace A. Urdan Cornelia C. Weggen turdan@wrhambrecht.com cweggen@wrhambrecht.com 415.551.8600 “In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.” Eric Hoffer, in Vanguard Management, 1989 2 March 2000 Equity Research TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary ........................................................................
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