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The Best Florida Business College

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The chief objective of Florida Career College would be to educate scholars and prime them to fruitfully join today’s challenging workforce. The College provides a non-traditional post-secondary professional education intended for those who understand that high school only can be said to be insufficient for numerous industry-current careers.

Florida Career College boasts smaller classes, hands-on campus-based lab work in addition to skilled staff members.  It’s an atmosphere which promotes positive learning for the entire student body taking part in the healthcare, business, information technology and cosmetology courses.  The scholars are then further in a position to benefit as a result of making partnerships with many and assorted local corporations and this could then lead to post-graduation work placements.

Of Florida’s Career College’s Nine campuses, eight are approved by the Accrediting Council of Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) furthermore the ninth is certified by the Commission of the Council on Occupational Education (COE). These are both national accrediting agencies recognized by the United States Department of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA). The College is licensed through the Florida Commission for Independent Education, a seven-member board, appointed by the Governor, and has two functions.  The first is serving as the state’s regulatory agency, and in addition for setting standards as well as checking compliance. The College pays local, state in addition to federal taxes.  It receives no direct assistance from the state or federal governments and also carries an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau.

Florida Career College supports thousands of scholars annually, many of whom could be the first in their families to attend college and so are in search of the skills needed in order to prepare for the recent workforce.  The College is proud of its 28-year track record in helping students reach their objectives, by means of an education provided by experienced teachers and contemporary curricula.

As an educational sector, career college scholars are predominantly working adults aiming to achieve the American dream by getting an education directly related to their professional goals. Some noteworthy information:Almost fifty percent of career college scholars comprise of the first generation in their families to attain a  higher education. At least 75 percent of these scholars have jobs even as they are taking part in career colleges.Career colleges hold considerably higher graduation and post-graduation employment rates than do conventional community colleges. Career college graduates earn more, spend more and also pay more taxes than they would have if they had not received training past high school. A May 2007 report from the Imagine America Foundation found that private career colleges contributed .6 billion to the U.S. economy.  Of this, .6 billion comprises of direct institutional expenditures.  Furthermore, the sector produced .5 billion in secondary earnings gains, defined at this juncture as the growth in career college graduate wages and .5 billion in indirect economic activity coupled with the industries that graduates are employed.86,382 students graduated from career colleges in Florida in 2007-2008. The majority of the state’s computer science and information technology graduates (63%) and the greater part of the state’s allied health and medical services graduates (54%) came from career colleges.Together with the many economic advantages career colleges offer to the state, it is estimated that if the 265,000 students attending Florida’s career colleges were educated by the state university system, the .2 billion per year.

Choosing a Business School

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Choosing a business school is a very important decision. Your choice will affect your career and your future.

When choosing a business school, there are many things think about before applying. Here is a list that will help keep you focused:

The Degree

Does the school offer the type of degree and program that you want? Nowadays there are many different options. You can now choose from two-year MBA programs, one-year MBA programs, Executive MBA programs, part-time MBA programs, and distance education MBA programs.

 Admission procedure

Students applying for the b-schools should look into the admission procedures of the b-schools.  Eligibility of you entering into the b-school needs to be verified. B-schools may adopt CAT/MAT/XAT/I-CET for admission procedures of the students.  

 Approval

Students while choosing the business school should also concentrate on approval of the school from All India council for Technical Education(AICTE). AICTE approval is required to certify the B-school to adopt design, and oriented teaching, designing methodologies, problem solving approach. B-schools approved by AICTE will concentrate on greater exposure to Industrial and manufacturing processes. More so ever, AICTE approval would make the pedagogy more professional.

  

Accreditation 

Accreditation means Recognition and guarantee of minimum quality of education. For the NBA it means a process of quality assurance, giving credit where it is due for some clearly visible and demonstrable strategies of academic activities and objectives of the institutions, known to be honestly pursued and efficiently achieved by the resources currently available with a potential for continuous improvement in quality for effective growth. This accreditation is possible only when an b-school has approval of AICTE and we can also term it as certifying for quality education.

 Recognition to the Degree

Degree obtained from Business schools should be certified by Association of Indian Universities. This certificate will qualify their degrees as master’s Degree so that they can apply for higher studies on this basis. This parameter again depends on whether you would like to pursue higher studies or not.


The Cost

Business school fee can be very costly and should be carefully considered before applying. Decide how much you are prepared to pay for your education and look into schools that fit into the financial parameter that you set. Keep in mind other expenses for the area such as cost of living and commuting.

The Curriculum

Many schools are now discouraging specializing in only one aspect of business. A general management perspective has been adopted as a result. However, concentration should still be considered. For example, if you are interested in marketing, choose a school that has an outstanding marketing program. But, at the same time you should also look into the consistency of the curriculum of the school. The courses offered at B-school should suit to the Industry requirements and practical exposure is required in the courses offered.

Faculty

This parameter is the most important aspect to be looked into.  If you are really interested in PGDM programme of b-school for quality and value based education then you have to look into the profiles of the faculty of the b-school. Faculty should be from academic/Industry exposure more so ever,  you should also concentrate on the ratio of In-house and visiting faculty. The B-school with good strength of in-house faculty will definitely do well as the students would be under guidance of the faculty and the commitment of in-house faculty would obviously will be high comparing to visiting faculty.

 

Summer Internships

Internships offered by B-schools should be critically considered to look into the viability of the employment by the student and his career. Considering the stipend for the Summer Intern is good but more than that nature of work of you are going to handle is going to fetch the student in his placement and his future work.

The Size

Assess your preferences. Are you interested in individualized attention? If so, it may be better for you to choose a school with small class sizes and a low student-to-teacher ratio.

The Ratings of the B-school

Much like a law school or medical school education, the academic content of a business school education does not vary much between programs. However, the MBA is analyzed and ranked by more organizations than any other academic degree. These ranking can help you determine which schools are the most prestigious. Keep in mind though, even if a school is not top-ranked, it can still have a good reputation.

Industry and institution interaction 

To get practical exposure and to understand the ambience and culture of premium b-schools you should definitely opt the school which will have a minimum of one programme for the year for Industry and Institution interaction.

Social Activities 

Students who  sensitize  towards the social issues of the society should look into this activity as one of parameters for choosing the B-school. Social activities of the school should be done not for the sake of Fame and Name but it should be done for the sake for up lifting the needy and to make the students as responsible citizens of India.

The Exclusiveness

Some business schools are very selective. They may only admit a small number of students into their program, making the application process very competitive. To help assess your chances, match your background (GPA, test scores, etc.) with the school’s admittance record. If you have doubts about your chances of acceptance, remember that you can apply to more than one school.

Strategic Training Wing

To make the students to be placed in good companies B-schools should definitely have a separate training wing to train and make the student ready for the future positions of the companies. At the same time you should also make a note of who is heading the wing and how was the previous training programmes conducted i.e., the effectiveness of the training programmes.

The Placement Statistics

Students usually pursue an MBA to enhance their future career options. Therefore, choosing a school with a good placement record is important. Most business schools will willingly supply placement statistics to interested applicants. Checking recruiter records and speaking with former graduates of the school will also give you further insight. 

 

 

 

 

 

TechWadi Global Entrepreneurship Forum to be held for the first time in Lebanon, hosted by the Olayan School of Business at AUB

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The technology industry flourishes on the key contributions of Arab American professionals. In his speech at Cairo University, U.S. President Obama announced a powerful vision: to promote the advancement of entrepreneurship and innovation throughout the developing world. The TechWadi Global Entrepreneurship Forum is being held on June 23 for the first time in Lebanon at the Olayan School of Business (OSB) at the American University of Beirut, supported by partner Berytech Technological Pole. TechWadi is the leading networking association for Arab and Arab-American professionals in the technology industry.

The Forum emphasizes accelerating entrepreneurship and venture capital in Lebanon and across the MENA region, and will bring together distinguished individuals who are united in their vision to create a vibrant world-class entrepreneurial ecosystem. Also joining the forum will be a distinguished delegation led by the United States Department of State, including prominent business leaders, investors, and entrepreneurs seeking to expand cross-border ties with the MENA region.

Speakers at the conference will address strategic topics, notably: the key role of mentors and incubators in building the support infrastructure for start-ups; the application of best practices in venture capital, such as managing multi-stage funds; and the opportunities for technology transfer and collaboration between the US and MENA. This conference will offer opportunities for attendees to interact and network with local and international investors, executives, entrepreneurs, and policymakers.

The TechWadi Global Entrepreneurship Forum will also integrate “live tweeting” from the individual conference sessions, using the twitter hash code #GEF2010. This innovative use of technology marks a new era of “real-time” communication at OSB that demonstrates to the region how innovation and technology will drive entrepreneurship initiatives forward.

TechWadi seeks to organize and facilitate access to mentorship, funding, and career opportunities for their members. Based in Silicon Valley, TechWadi reaches over 1,000 technology leaders in the United States and across the globe.

Berytech Technological Pole is a center dedicated to providing hi-tech hosting, incubation, skill training, and mentorship to nascent entrepreneurs, start-ups and small-medium enterprises. Besides physical incubation, Berytech also provides virtual incubation to a number of entities through networking, support, and training.

Building on over a century of prominence in business education, the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business is committed to providing quality undergraduate and graduate programs aimed at developing and enhancing global managerial leadership in the Middle East region and beyond.

For more information about the conference program and to register for the conference, please visit:

http://www.techwadi.org/

 

Making Genius

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In his excellent book: “Scientific Genius, Dean Keith Simonton of the USC-Davis, suggests that genuises are forming more novel combinations than the merely talented. His theory has etymology behind it: Cogito- “I think”- orginally connoted “shake together”. Intelligo, the root of intelligence, means to “select among”. This is a clear early indication about the utility of permitting ideas and thoughts to randomly combine with each other and selecting from the many the few to retain.

Like the highly intelligent child with a case of Legos, the genius is constantly combining and re-combining ideas, images, thoughts into different combinations on both the conscious and unconscious levels.

When asked how he was able to come to E=MC2, Einstein called it “combinatory play”. He hadn’t, after all, invented energy, mass or speed but he was able to look at the same world as everybody else and come up with something different. In fact, he considerd this combinatory play to be essential to his thinking.

In my book: “The Secret Creator Within”- 23 Ways To Awaken Your Creative Genius, I actually start my treatise with this important idea by presenting my first ‘Creative Pop’ after a much quoted line from Linus Pauling, the great chemist:

“The best way to get a good idea
is to get lots of ideas.”

To illustrate this concept let’s take Tony Bennet. It has been said of him: “Tony Bennet never sings the same song—once.”

When he was asked if he ever got tired of singing “I Left My Heart In San Francisco” his answer was revealing.

“Do you ever get tired of making love?”

When I heard him say this I wondered how could a man who has performed the same song thousands of times, surely on every occassion he’s had to do a concert in a very long career, still find it so new , so fresh, so exciting that he could compare it to making love?

It’s because he has found the magic in our ‘Creative Pop’— each time he goes on stage he’s looking for ALL the ways this song can be expressed. And after these many years, the countless perfomances of this, his biggest hit, he’s still searching for the next best answer.

It’s amazing when you think about it—he hasn’t exhausted the possibilities—after some fifty years.

The lyrics never changed, “the city by the bay” never went anywhere new, the “cable cars still flew half-way to the stars” each time. The basic melody never changed. But this mastersinger could vary the nuance, the phrasing, the tempo, or the scale each time into a myriad of exciting new combinations.

It’s true Tony Bennet never sings the same song—once!

Did TV producer Lorne Michaels stay with the same cast of Saturday Night Live? No, he constantly looked for new talent, skits, and ways to present humor. He too, always on the quest for the next answer.

Did writer/producer Norman Lear stop creating TV sitcoms when All In The Family was a blow out success? No, he went ‘Uptown’ and everywhere else in his creative search because he kept generating the next idea.

Did Bill Gates stop growing his tiny company in 1975 or stop with his first successful idea, a prototype software package, and halt with the name Microsoft? No.

Mr. Gates went on to the next ideas, and still hasn’t finished finding all of them. He eventually became the richest man in the world.

One way of looking at a problem just doens’t cut it and certainly doesn’t generate genius.

So, how is this done? How can we start to ‘awaken’ creative genius? To explore this I lean heavily on a theory I’ve developed based on a comment by Charles DuBois. He said:

“The important thing is this:
to be able
at any moment to scarifice
that which we are for
that which we could become.”

If we ponder these words carefully, and then ask ourselves: what stops us from creating more ideas and solutions, what makes us so satisfied with the one answer we usually can find? We discover a key in the above quotation from Dubois.

Very often its because we cherish our current state, that immidiate solution, so much that we become too afraid or too timid in changing or discarding it. We’ve been taught, through education and experience, to be afraid of change.

Make no mistake about it, generating the next answer requires a change in your thinking and motivation. It takes courage, too. You must sacrifice what you’ve already found as soon as you find it. Who would want to do that? No one does. No one except ‘original thinkers’ and creative geniuses.

To them this is second nature. They are so content in combining ideas and shuffling together one position against another that they hardly find much sacrifice in losing a single solution shortly after its discovery. There is a sort of inner converstation that is constantly pulsing— which they heed— because it leads to real breakthrough, what I call ‘original’ thinking.

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