News 12-13-2002
Sponsor: Syllabus
Syllabus2003 Call for Papers Extended to December
15
Plan to present at the Tenth Annual Summer Conference on Education Technology
held in the San Francisco Bay Area July 27-31, 2003. Proposals for breakout
sessions, panels, and workshops are due December 15. For details and further
information, go to www.syllabus.com.
Educator to Lead National Infosec Training Center
Information security educator Corey Schou has been named director of the National
Information Assurance Training and Education Center (NIATEC) at Idaho State
University. The Center is designed to be the cornerstone for education and training
in information assurance for academic, industrial, and governmental organizations.
The program, which has received an initial $1.2 million grant from the federal
government, will be implemented over a three-year period. Continuing funding
is expected. Schou was picked by the Federal Information Systems Security Educators
Association as the 1996 Educator of the Year, and in 1997 he was given the TechLearn
award for his life-long contributions to distance education.
Web Survey: Recent College Grad Hiring Anemic
Planned entry-level hiring of recent college grads is up 4 percent for 2003,
according to an annual survey released last week by CollegeGrad.com. The bad
news is that the results are only marginally better than 2002, which was the
worst year for entry-level hiring in 20 years. The results profile future hiring
plans for more than 500 entry-level employers representing more than 100,000
entry-level positions. While most of the largest employers (over 10,000 employees)
are hiring the same or fewer college grads, many medium-sized employers (1,000-10,000
employees) and small employers (under 1,000 employees) are showing increases
for 2003, which accounts for the net increase. "It is often the small to medium
companies that spur initial hiring demand coming out of a recession, so this
is a very good sign of future growth," said CollegeGrad.com president Brian
Krueger.
Wharton School Offers Stock Data Via the Web
The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton business school is offering financial
analysts access to historical information on stock options over the Internet.
The data, supplied by research firm OptionMetrics's Ivy database, covers information
on all U.S. listed index and equity options from January1996. The Ivy database
adds to the 1.5 terabyte storehouse of financial information from a range of
providers now available through Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS). The university
said that by making data from the Center for Research in Security Prices, Standard
& Poor's COMPUSTAT, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the New York
Stock Exchange, and other data vendors accessible from a simple Web-based interface,
WRDS hopes to become the preferred source among university scholars for data
covering global financial markets.
CMU Integrates Product Lifecycle Management Tools
Carnegie Mellon University is planning to incorporate software tools into its
undergraduate and graduate mechanical engineering courses to help students develop
computational skills for mastering Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) techniques
that are becoming required by some technologically advanced manufacturers.
PLM
is a framework of technology and services that permits manufacturing companies
and their partners and customers to collaboratively design, build and manage
products throughout their entire lifecycle. CMU is planning to incorporate software
from PTC Inc. into the freshman curriculum through an integrated PLM project
spanning computer-aided design, stress analysis and manufacturing. The University
will also incorporate PTC design tools into a new Master of Computational Mechanical
Engineering (MCME) degree designed to prepare students for a variety of leadership
roles.
Awards, Deals, Contracts in Higher Education
COMPLIANCE TRACKING—The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
has renewed its contract with Embella Inc. for its management system for tracking
and documenting compliance data. The service helps hospitals track regulatory
compliance, which has become a significant management challenge for hospital
administrators. According to a recent report, "Patients or Paperwork?" commissioned
by the American Hospital Association, there have been almost 100 new requirements
issued by federal agencies since 1997.
FORMS AUTOMATION—The State University of New York (SUNY) College
at Geneseo's Division of Administration & Finance has picked the Cardiff LiquidOffice
eForm automation system to streamline several form-driven processes. LiquidOffice
replaces procedures that required users to manually print, fill out and route
completed forms using the campus mail system. A Web-based solution, LiquidOffice
will enable SUNY Geneseo to reduce training and support requirements by standardizing
several business processes with one interface. The school is currently using
LiquidOffice to automate the annual budget approval process for many of its
departments.
