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The Global Geek: Language Training For It Students’ Study Abroad In Austria And Germany, Gwyneth E. Cliver, Deepak Khazanchi Oct 2011

The Global Geek: Language Training For It Students’ Study Abroad In Austria And Germany, Gwyneth E. Cliver, Deepak Khazanchi

Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Faculty Publications

The Modern Language Association’s (MLA) urgent appeal for the restructuring of the undergraduate language curriculum, “Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World,” emphasizes a need for language departments to enrich their upper-division course offerings beyond the traditional literary studies model in order to attract and retain broader interest in language learning among students with diverse academic interests and needs. Citing the National Science Foundation’s 2003 Survey of College Graduates, it stresses that only 6.1% of undergraduates whose primary major is a foreign language later achieve doctorate degrees and concludes that departments should provide upper-division language courses …


Cla 2007-2011 Phase 3 Longitudinal Report, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness Aug 2011

Cla 2007-2011 Phase 3 Longitudinal Report, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

Assessment

The Collegiate Learning Assessment (CLA) is a major initiative of the Council for Aid to Education. The CLA offers a value-added, constructed-response approach to the assessment of higher-order skills, such as critical thinking and written communication. Hundreds of institutions and hundreds of thousands of students have participated in the CLA to date.


Creating An International Joint Certificate In It Administration, Peter Wolcott Aug 2011

Creating An International Joint Certificate In It Administration, Peter Wolcott

Information Systems and Quantitative Analysis Faculty Proceedings & Presentations

The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and the University of Agder (UiA), Norway, are collaborating on the creation of an undergraduate certificate in Information Technology Administration. The certificate is designed for students who are interested in managing the complex technical infrastructure of today's organizations. The certificate will consist of approximately 15 credit hours of hands-on courses, covering such areas as systems administration, network administration, database administration, security administration, and distributed systems. All courses will be offered online, using a variety of collaboration tools and teaching techniques that reflect the best of current practice. Students will take courses taught by …


Strategic Planning Forum Strategic Planning Goal 2: Academic Excellence, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness Feb 2011

Strategic Planning Forum Strategic Planning Goal 2: Academic Excellence, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011, Uno Office Of Institutional Effectiveness

Strategic Planning Forums

Strategic Planning Forum Strategic Planning Goal 2: Academic Excellence, Friday, Feb. 4, 2011.