Saturday, August 27, 2005

Industry input is critical but.....watch out.

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We all know that our AAS electronics programs are designed to prepare techs for jobs in industry. That is why it is extremely important to ...
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Thanks

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Just a note to all of you who respond to the blog. My thanks for your input. Your input is valuable because it represents your views and e...
Sunday, August 14, 2005

The retention problem

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My primary goal with this blog has been to understand why enrollments in electronics are dropping and students not enrolling. But just as b...
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Monday, August 01, 2005

What we have here is a failure to.....advertise.

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If you will pardon my French, community colleges (CCs) do a crappy job of promoting their electronic programs. In fact, I should say that c...
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Saturday, July 30, 2005

Conference sessions reveal critical information

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I promised that I would give you an up date on my session at the SAME-TEC conference in Santa Clara July 25-28. Here it is. First, there we...
Friday, July 29, 2005

Education is the answer.

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If education is the answer, what is the question? According to an article in the July 25, 2005 issue of Fortune magazine, education is the ...
Thursday, July 21, 2005

Conference to discuss declining enrollments

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Next week, July 25-28 in San Jose, CA, the Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC) is putting on their SAME-TEC conference. ...
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Friday, July 08, 2005

Book Publishers: Hurting or Helping?

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One of you recently posted a comment here and asked, where are the textbooks and lab equipment for a proposed, revised, updated, more releva...
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Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be ....techs

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My apologies to Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson for my take off on their hit song. But the comment fits. Parents don't want their kids...
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Thursday, July 07, 2005

As usual, we are our own worse enemy.

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Roy Brixen's comment to my previous entry called Top 10 Reasons... was right on target. If you have not done so, read it as it tells ...
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Sunday, July 03, 2005

Top 10 Reasons Why Electronic Enrollments Are Low

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I have been researching the low enrollment problem for over 3 years now. After lots of literature research, a major survey, and talking wit...
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Monday, June 27, 2005

This book explains much of the low enrollment problem

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I just finished reading Thomas L. Friedman's book The World is Flat . It has been on the best seller list for quite a while and you may...
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Saturday, June 25, 2005

Help is on the way, I hope.

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I wonder just how much is being done to solve the declining enrollment problem in electronics. I suspect there are individual efforts in sc...
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Friday, June 24, 2005

Is industry training replacing formal education?

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Last night while I was watching some TV, I saw an ad by Time Warner Cable, my local cable company. It was promoting jobs and training for t...
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Correction

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I gave an incorrect URL in my posting of yesterday. For those of you who tried to access my ASEE paper "The Disappearing Two-Year Asso...

A good example of what is happening.

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I received this email in response to my message about this blog. Jack did not post this as a comment so I asked him if I could. He said OK...
Thursday, June 23, 2005

One more reason why enrollments may be declining

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In the Monday, June 20th issue of USA Today on the first page of the Money section, is an article that may give all of you some concern. T...

Some background on the enrollment decline

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I first got worried about the enrollment decline in community colleges after I left teaching in 2000. While I was at Austin CC, the semicon...
Wednesday, June 22, 2005

First Thoughts and Comments

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Over the past years, there has been a steady decline in the enrollments in most community colleges offering 2-year AAS degrees in electronic...
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