Working on email after mid night

There is a workshop that I will attend tomorrow morning on time management. What a timely subject. I think I should control my workload in a much more rigorous way. Reading and answering 100 emails a day is not the best use of my time. It takes me about two hours per day to do it and often I found the only time I can finish all the emails is after midnight. Something need to be changed. Maybe I should not take on the 80 hours of work per week !!!! I am no longer working as CEO of an Internet start-up!!! So don't work like one!!!

Sigh...

Email# 75 will be next item...

MIST meeting 2009 2 5

MIST is an sucessful, most popular gradaute program on campus.
In today's meeting, I have reported the following issues:
- Monterey County Community Foundation - LeadershipTraining
- Academic integraty issues
- current status of CST 630 and IST 630
We should build a standard operating procedure for MIST including
- recruitment activities and schedule
- on campus seminar preparation and agenda
- capstone preparation and advising

Graduates coming back to teach for us

Observing some of our best graduates coming back to teach for us made me felt we have done well. At least for those. They know the outcome-based model, the information system, the lingo and what are important and what not. They can communicate well, they have goals in mind and they are flexible. They all remember their capstone projects and how much pain they had to endure in order to finish it. That means our capstone model is effective.

Although I had lots of doubts when I first started with the MB campus decades ago, once the whole campus, including students, faculty and staff all buy in to the education model, MB is a very effective campus to educate the unique type of students.

For my students and colleagues

Blogging becomes an indispensable learning tools. Especially in an e-learning environment that communication between faculty and students, among students are crucial.

This blog is designed for me to log my thoughts, opinions and reflections as a professor, hence the title. I hope my students and other students in the programs that I am engaged can benefit from this by knowing what is going on in side my aging brain.