From cradle to grave.Corporations and universities do not have control over all the reasons employee and students leave, yet everyone seems to think that they should. Universities and colleges provide students with all the necessary resources to succeed and to stay in school: Amenities from food courts to basketball courts, libraries with late evening hours, tutoring centers, residental/honors college, freshmen orientation classes, mental health clinics, Web access in dorms, and an array of social functions that range from sports to fine arts. Only about 33 percent of corporations provide their workers with Employee Assisted Programs to deal with mental health/addiction issues that effect worker morale and productivity. If corporations provided more employee retention resources, would they lose less employees? I don't think so. Several years ago the Kentucky Kentucky, state, United States Kentucky (kəntŭk`ē, kĭn–), one of the so-called border states of the S central United States. It is bordered by West Virginia and Virginia (E); Tennessee (S); the Mississippi R. Council for Post Secondary Education decided to "reward" Kentucky colleges and universities for retention efforts beyond a certain percentage. Discussions with academic advisors and instructors revealed several issues. Would it be against professional ethics professional ethics, n the rules governing the conduct, transactions, and relationships within a profession and among its publics. professional ethics liability, n 1. to encourage a student to remain in school when it is clearly against her best interests, simply because the university is rewarded for every student it keeps? At point does the university--and society--cease to gain the benefits of more educated workforce if it reaches a 80-90 percent retention and graduation Graduation is the action of receiving or conferring an academic degree or the associated ceremony. The date of event is often called degree day. The event itself is also called commencement, convocation or invocation. rate if the economy produces only 20 percent of the total professional jobs? There is something subversive about thinking that education from cradle to grave is the panacea Some antidote or remedy that completely solves a problem. Most so-called panaceas in this industry, if they survive at all, wind up sitting alongside and working with the products they were supposed to replace. for all of society's ills, and that a more educated work force will make us more globally competitive. I am wondering if the student who dropped out of college and is delivering pizzas by night and mowing mow 1 n. 1. The place in a barn where hay, grain, or other feed is stored. 2. A stack of hay or other feed stored in a barn. Lawns by day will learn how to manage a business first-hand and, when she is ready, will attend night classes to learn how to manage her start-up Start-up The earliest stage of a new business venture. pizza business better. She'll certainly be ready to learn, and her only concern won't be if she can get tickets to the Friday night basketball game but if she can get child care. WILLIAM SALAZAR, Research Associate Morehead State University History Morehead State University was originally founded as a private teacher's college in 1887, The Morehead Normal School. It is said to have been comprised of 13 buildings with a layout in the shape of a crescent moon for some period prior to 1922. Morehead, KY |
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