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Re: SAGE, certification, and you
Brad Morrison in gratuitously markupped text wrote:
> At 11:18 AM 2/19/98 -0800, Ana Maria De Alvare' wrote:
>> If people are coming out from College, or training centers
>> without the right skills, then lets go back to those education
>> centers and demand the right ones.
>
> I'm sorry, but the mental image of 1500 conference attendees arrayed
> in everything from tie-dyed t-shirts to sharkskin suits (let's take the
> vendors, too) descending on some unsuspecting university regents' office
> to demand the right skills is just too lurid to keep to myself.
Um, computer savvy folk using a physical protest? I'd say, something
like the image of a webpage (http://www.sage.org/useless.schools.html)
<HTML><BODY>
<FONT SIZE=20>The following universities have been found to release
clueless students unsuspecting into the computer industry workforce.
Any university who routinely graduates students without properly
training them (>60% of graduating class unsufficiently skilled)
WILL be listed here. As we clean up the universities, this margin
will decline.</FONT>
...</BODY></HTML>
would be more likely.
I can see action taken from this... Remember, the keyboard is mightier
than the demonstration. The big worry is that of legal retribution.
My answer to this is, make sure you get your facts right, and stick to
it. I'd also suggest announcing you're going to be doing this about
two years before you actually implement it (give a firm deadline), and
send a message to everyone who'd be on those two years a warning,
explaining in what areas they're lacking.
However, this is NOT the proper first course of action. I remember
some professors at Purdue were frequently wanting input into what they
should be teaching from the real world. The real world did not seem to
be answering. Give the universities a couple years of feedback before
considering implementing the above. Work with them first, and if that
doesn't work, then threaten. You'll find a lot more support from the
accademic community.
Ed Grimm SprintParanet