BUSINESSES URGED TO COOPERATE ON NETWORK, CSU CAMPUS PLANS.Byline: Christopher Noxon Daily News Staff Writer Businesses in Ventura County should band together to develop such projects as a shared telecommunications network A telecommunications network is a of telecommunications links and nodes arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links and through various nodes. and a four-year state university, executives said at an economic conference Friday. More than 200 business leaders gathered at the Oxnard Hilton for the 27th annual business outlook conference sponsored by the Ventura County Economic Development Association. Panelists included government regulators, local executives and political representatives. Local businesses must cooperate as aggressively as they compete, said business owner William Simmons William Charles Simmons was a politician from Alberta, Canada. Simmons served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1906 to 1908 for the Alberta Liberal Party. He was elected in a by-election after Leverett DeVeber was appointed to the Canadian Senate. . ``We must work together to face the challenges of the next century,'' said Simmons, who has led an effort to create an on-line business resource network in Ventura County. ``Our community will rise and fall based on how well we work together.'' Several panelists urged business leaders to throw their support behind plans to convert Camarillo Camarillo (kă'mərē`yō), city (1990 pop. 52,303), Ventura co., S Calif.; inc. 1964. It is the center of a fertile farm area where citrus fruits and flowers are grown. State Hospital into a long-awaited California State University, Channel Islands California State University, Channel Islands (CSUCI) is a university located in Camarillo, California, in California's Ventura County. CSUCI opened in 2002 as the twenty-third campus in the California State University system, succeeding the Ventura County branch campus of . The university will draw dollars to the local economy as well as provide workplace training for future generations of workers, said Ed Garnett, vice president of human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. for the Thousand Oaks-based biotechnology firm Amgen. ``Business not only has a role in education but a public responsibility,'' he said. ``It is in our best interest to provide for education.'' The remarks offered encouragement to the president of the university without a campus, J. Handel Evans Ev·ans , Herbert McLean 1882-1971. American anatomist who isolated four pituitary hormones and discovered vitamin E (1922). , who was in the audience to drum up support for a building plan that relies heavily on commercial and housing development. ``This is what we've been preaching all along,'' said Evans. ``As we review funding for higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. , everyone is looking at business and the industrial sector to step up to the plate.'' But not all the panelists expressed such willingness to cooperate on projects traditionally handled by the public sector. Dick Orfalea, an executive vice president of corporate development for Kinko's International, said government should maintain some of its traditional roles. ``As I see it, we have government in place to provide a defense, to make our streets safe and provide an education,'' he said. |
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