Unfortunate incidents and actions

Hopefully some lessens are learned from this.

MIST faculty has met and reviewed the Feb 4th incident of one student’s proposal (Proposal C) copied “structure, design and format” of a proposal (Proposal O) by another students without permission in XYZ. MIST faculty has decided the following actions and comment:

1. Ethics and integrity are essential in education, especially in School of ITCD. Any plagiarism is not tolerated and will result in failing the assignment at the minimum, expelling from the program AND the university likely.

2. The faculty concluded the offense of coping “structure, design and format” without permission is unprofessional and should be discouraged. However, the faculty does not categorize the offense as plagiarism since most of the content of the proposals are distinct.

3. The student who copied the structure, design and format should complete the following actions within a week from today. Otherwise more severe measures will be taken by the MIST program.

a. Send an email to the original author, apologize for the action, and ask for permission to use the “structure, design and format” or Proposal O.

b. If the permission is granted in three days, acknowledgment should be included in the new version of Proposal C. If the permission is denied or not received within three days, Proposal C should be reformatted and revised so no components of Proposal O are used.

Please email me if you have any questions.

Eric Tao, on behalf of MIST Faculty

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.