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EDUCATION
INSIDE:
2 New generation
Public policy and
public administration
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programs
2 Leveraging
partnerships
Schools aim to meet
needs of health
care industry
3 Future of
Engineering Starts
Salisbury University
4 New programs
Schools stay ahead
of the curve
4 Meeting workforce
needs
New opportunities
University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School alum Steven Hicks MBA '17 (left) talks to online MBA student Brian Hearn (right, on screen)
5 Advancing
education
Advanced degrees
Colleges provide access to experienced professionals
for teachers
Knowledge from those in the field
By Gregory J. Alexander, Contributing Writer
I
n college, having professors who possess
real world experience in your field is an
invaluable experience. Many times, they
are adjunct professors – those who primarily work in the business world most
of the day but teach a class or two in their
spare time. However, at Loyola University
Maryland, an innovative executives in residence
program in the Sellinger School of Business
and Management results in business executives
serving as full-time faculty on campus to impart
their knowledge and experience in a variety of
fields from finance to economics, information
systems, law, management and marketing.
“With an entry-level accounting course, for
example, you will focus primarily on theory,
but as you progress into junior- and seniorlevel courses, the executives in residence show
how you put theory into practice,” says Jason
Cherubini, executive in residence in finance at
Loyola. “Bringing in practical applications is
ideal at this time as students are doing intern-
ships and getting a taste of the real world.”
Cherubini notes that Loyola’s Sellinger
Applied Portfolio Fund provides the opportunity for students to manage a $1 million portfolio, a component of the school’s endowment.
“They gain experience in portfolio management, equity analysis and risk management
with actual money under the mentorship of
faculty. It’s a huge resume boost and helps raise
their confidence,” he says.
The executives in residence program also
provides students with networking opportunities. “We have faculty who have experience
at Under Armour, McCormick and Marriott,
all locally based global companies. When our
students go on interviews with C-suite executives, they are more comfortable because they
have had professors who were also high-level
executives.”
Cherubini adds that the program is also
beneficial for first-generation students who
may not have had a family member in a management role. “This program can lead to a more
equitable environment, which aligns with our
mission as a Jesuit institution.”
At Stevenson University’s Brown School
of Business and Leadership, business advisory
boards provide feedback to the university on
business trends, what types of candidates businesses are looking for when hiring, skill sets,
and any challenges they are having finding
ideal candidates for openings. Zamira Simkins,
Ph.D., dean of the business school notes that
each of the seven tracks within the business
school has an advisory board.
“Their feedback provides valuable feedback
so that we are producing graduates who align
with employers’ expectations, and we can tailor
our curriculum,” she says. For example, about
three years ago, conversations with local businesses revealed more analysts were needed,
so the faculty developed a business analytics
course that could meet these needs. Simkins
says that the real estate professional minor was
added based on the urging of a member of an
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By Margit B. Weisgal, Contributing Writer
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High-tech
solutions
Where do young people get
their news?
Technology programs
provide real-world
experience to support
Maryland workforce
needs
By Alex Keown, Contributing Writer
T
echnology is rapidly evolving and
three Maryland colleges developed educational programs that are
equipping students with the skills
needed to succeed in an increasingly
digital world. The coursework integrates realworld situations and simulations and provides
practical knowledge that will support students
when they enter the workforce.
At Carroll Community College in
Westminster, students from the digital fabrication department collaborated with the nursing department to harness the capabilities of
3D scanning. Digital fabrication students are
scanning molds of critical medical simulation
equipment that will then be re-modeled and
3D printed. The molds will be used to create
casts for a Mass Casualty Incident disaster
simulation that will give nursing students the
opportunity to practice their triage and disaster response skills in a realistic setting.
Terence Hannum, assistant professor of
digital design and fabrication, says the collaboration allows students to apply their skills
and knowledge to real-world health care situations. He notes the project will be challenging for students because of the difficulties of
3D scanning for health care needs. Some of
those challenges are due to varying surfaces
of the human body that make it difficult to
achieve a consistent and reproducible scan.
Some scanners have difficulty penetrating the
surface of the skin when an internal scan is
Adobe stock
Carroll Community College digital fabrication students collaborated with the nursing department on 3D scanning.
necessary.
“The program is designed for real-world
application and will prepare the students for
future employment. These are real things that
people do and real skills that engineers have.
This program gives the students the skills to
talk with clients about costs and realistic timelines for projects,” Hannum says.
He adds that the collaboration with the
nursing project has opened the door for
future projects with different departments
and will allow them to work together to solve
real world problems.
Al Najjar, a student at CCC who is in the
advanced 3D scanning course, says the collaboration with the nursing department has
been extremely beneficial. Before coming to
CCC, Najjar was enrolled at another school,
but says he found the 3D scanning program
there to be “lacking.” CCC offered what he
was looking for and he hasn’t looked back.
Najjar says the college provided him with the
coursework that will provide him with a pathway to meaningful employment.
Since starting his coursework at CCC,
High-tech,
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One day, a student and I went to lunch.
When he pulled out his phone and took a
photo of the dishes we were served, I had
to smile. We covered a lot of subjects and,
as we were leaving, I turned and asked,
“Where do you get your news?” He replied,
without missing a beat, “Facebook.”
To say I was shocked doesn’t begin to
describe my reaction. If someone is getting
their news via an online platform, it means
they themselves are the curators in that
they select the sources they prefer. It also
means it is probably not the most balanced
selection. Are you hearing both sides of a
story? Can you articulate what different
groups are saying about the issues?
That conversation has stayed with me,
hence this article. Don’t you wonder where
young people are getting their news, their
information? And who is teaching them
that it’s important to know what is going
on where we live: our city, our state and
our country. And what about choosing our
leaders? Do we know what they stand for?
Another question it raised was, “Where
can you find balanced news that doesn’t
skew one way or another?” Long gone are
the days of television stations and newspapers as our primary sources. I’m not
sure balanced information is even possible
anymore. And who do you trust enough to
tell you what’s happening?
A headline from a study by CNN reads,
“Nearly 40% of young Americans get their
news from influencers. Many of them lean
to the right, study finds.” It went on to say,
“While one-fifth of U.S. adults reported
‘regularly’ receiving their news from online
‘news influencers’ who post about current
events, that number climbed to nearly 40%
of young adults aged 18 to 29.”
Reuters Institute, based at Oxford
University in the U.K., commissioned a
study titled, “How Young People Consume
News and the Implications for Mainstream
Media.” It explains, up front, that, "Younger
audiences are different from older groups
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