Universities and Their Communities—Engagement and Service as Primary Mission

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans G. Schuetze
Keyword(s):  
Primary Mission

Is Globalization Killing Local Business?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahesh K. Joshi ◽  
J.R. Klein
Keyword(s):  
Technology Markets ◽  
The Past ◽  
Local Business ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Local Store ◽  
Global Arena ◽  
Primary Mission ◽  
Global Grid

The fact that the influence of globalization has been driven by dramatic changes is not one of those “blinding flashes of the obvious” that seems to sneak up on us. It is very evident and even predictable. Advances in technology, markets, and environments were precursors to the big changes we are now talking about. Advances in technology have led to the current global grid driven by information. The primary mission of business is to provide solutions, and this technology explosion has provided opportunities and market applications for those solutions. Local businesses now have an opportunity to move beyond their restricted geography of the past into the global arena with the use of technology. A local store in a remote village in Kentucky has the same opportunity as a large store in London to access global customers. These could be exciting times for local businesses if they use technology to their advantage.

The Tafel and food poverty in Germany

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sabine Werth
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
German Society ◽  
Food Distribution ◽  
Children And Youth ◽  
Homeless Shelters ◽  
Diverse Communities ◽  
Good Nutrition ◽  
The City ◽  
Primary Mission

Founded in 1993 by four women in Berlin, Germany, the Berliner Tafel is Germany’s oldest food rescue organization. The Tafel concept was quickly replicated and eventually developed into a nationwide network. Today, the Berliner Tafel has approximately 1,800 volunteers who tirelessly work to collect surplus food and deliver it to those in need throughout the city. The organization supplies over 300 social initiatives ranging from homeless shelters to soup kitchens and operates 45 food distribution points, Laib und Seele, in partnership with churches and the regional radio and television network. The Berliner Tafel supports more than 125,000 people in need every month with quality food that would otherwise have been unnecessarily thrown away. After the organization’s primary mission of rescuing food had adequately matured, the decision was taken to branch out and impact the lives of the children and youth of Berlin by establishing the KIMBA programme, which aims to teach young people from all backgrounds the value of food, good nutrition and the importance of sharing a meal together. Through all these activities the Berliner Tafel bolsters the fabric of German society by supporting vulnerable citizens while simultaneously having a positive impact on the environment and encouraging solidarity within and among Berlin’s diverse communities.

scholarly journals Pengukuran Metrik Kompleksitas Model Proses Bisnis Sekolah

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 217
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ainul Yaqin ◽  
Dicky Eka Asia Pratama ◽  
Mohammad Rofi’uruttab ◽  
Ilman Dwi Cahya
Keyword(s):  
Leadership Style ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Education Standards ◽  
Functional Roles ◽  
National Education ◽  
Standard Value ◽  
Process Complexity ◽  
Build Systems ◽  
Primary Mission

School as an institution that has a primary mission to educate and develop the character of the nation through a series of learning activities. School is an organization whose success goals are largely determined by the leadership style and organizational paradigm that is shared by all school components. Schools as organizations have business processes as a collection of procedures or activities that can define business objectives or objectives, generally in the context of organizational structures that can define functional roles and relationships within the organization. The main purpose of BPMN is to provide a notation that is easy to use and can be understood by everyone involved in business, which includes business analysts who model business processes, technical developers who build systems that carry out business, and various levels of management that must be able to read and understand processes diagram quickly so that it can help in decision making. To measure the complexity of a business process, complexity metrics are measured. This study uses the Cognitve Information Complexity Measure (CICM) method. Researchers took 3 SOPs of national education standards namely SOP curriculum development resulting in a standard value of complexity 425.1496, SOP for the Learning Process produced a standard value of complexity 2091.333 and SOP for Teacher Recruitment resulted in a standard value of complexity of 1145.49.

MSV(L): Continuing the Legacy of Army Waterborne Capability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Richard Toepler ◽  
Nathan Leightner
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United States Army ◽  
High Performance ◽  
The United States ◽  
Engineering Management ◽  
Fourth Quarter ◽  
Detailed Design ◽  
New Class ◽  
Source Selection ◽  
Primary Mission

The United States Army operates several classes of landing craft, which provide combatant commanders with waterborne maneuver capabilities essential for accomplishing a range of critical missions unique to the Army. These missions involve transport of personnel, cargo, and equipment from advanced bases and large sealift ships to ports, inland riverine regions, as well as remote undeveloped coastlines and beaches. Recognizing the significant roles these vessels play and will continue to play in achieving Army objectives, Army leadership allocated funding to design and build a new class of high performance landing craft: Maneuver Support Vessel (Light) (MSV(L)). The primary mission of MSV(L) is to conduct movement and maneuver of combat-configured Brigade Combat Team force elements such as one M1A2 main battle tank, or two Stryker vehicles, or four Joint Light Tactical Vehicles, each with its crew. MSV(L) will have beaching capability and be able to operate at speeds significantly in excess of any current Army landing craft. The Army Watercraft Systems organization was tasked with overseeing development of requirements and specifications, source selection and acquisition, along with contract, finance, and engineering management of the MSV(L) Program. A contract to develop the detailed design and build a series of vessels was awarded in September 2017. Launch of the initial vessel is planned during the fourth quarter of 2021.

“Literary Institutions are Founded and Endowed for the Common Good”

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Dorn
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
The Public ◽  
Regional Center ◽  
The Common ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Civic Mindedness ◽  
Primary Mission

This chapter examines Bowdoin College, which was supported by district elites who worked to erect a regional center of higher learning to which they could send their sons rather than incur the cost of dispatching them south to other colleges. On the morning of Bowdoin's opening, appointed president Joseph McKeen pronounced the college's primary mission: “That the inhabitants of this district may have their own sons to fill the liberal professions among them, and particularly to instruct them in the principles and practice of our holy religion, is doubtless the object of this institution.” This conception of higher education's function in American society drew heavily on a social ethos of civic-mindedness that assigned priority to social responsibility over individuals' self indulgence. Characterized by the practice of civic virtue and a commitment to the public good, civic-mindedness provided social institutions, including those dedicated to higher learning, a source from which to derive their central aims.

The Dilemma of Politics and Policies in Online Academic Progress

2020 ◽  
pp. 92-117
Author(s):  
Mark Allan Kinders ◽  
Adrienne D. Nobles
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Workforce Development ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness ◽  
Conservative Policy ◽  
Professional Development Needs ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Primary Mission

Higher education is criticized for failing to be nimble and flexible in meeting student professional development needs in a cost-effective and timely manner. This assessment is advanced through conservative policy agendas in which elected and social decision-makers argue the primary mission of higher education should be narrowly focused on workforce development to propel the American economy. Yet, many influencers misunderstand the efficiency and effectiveness of higher education in providing broad access to a quality education that meets students where they are at. An excellent illustration of this is the dramatic growth of institutions offering online academic programs. However, this highly popular delivery mechanism is still emerging in the higher education competitive marketplace. These trends already illustrate that the substantial fiscal risks require that institutions have absolute clarity in what and how they will invest in costly start-up programs.

Profitability vs Poverty alleviation: has banking logic influences Islamic microfinance institutions?

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 260-279
Author(s):  
Luqyan Tamanni ◽  
Mohd Hairul Azrin Haji Besar
Keyword(s):  
Mission Statements ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Microfinance Institutions ◽  
Local Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Related Information ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Islamic Microfinance ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Primary Mission

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to shed some lights on the process of mission drifting or abandoning poverty objective by Islamic microfinance institutions (IMFs). The paper investigates whether the extensive use of banking logic changes IMFs, from focusing on both development and financial objectives to only considering sustainability as their primary mission. Design/methodology/approach This paper adopts mixed methods by analyzing 7,200 microfinance data from Microfinance Exchange Market and reviewing annual reports and websites of 25 IMFs to examine their vision and mission statements and other related information. Findings The finding shows Islamic microfinance has not changed, despite increasing adoption of financial or banking performance measures. However, size and age of the institutions may affect the outcome in the future. The authors find that smaller microfinance institutions maintain genuine objective to serve the poor, as the grow larger they would be more inclined toward sustainability objectives. Research limitations/implications The research is limited on the sample size as data on Islamic microfinance globally is limited. However, the paper looked at the global data rather than local data to compensate for this limitation. Future study would be further taking the study through qualitative methods to support the study. Originality/value This paper aims to shed some lights on the process of mission drifting or abandoning poverty objective by IMFIs. The paper investigates how has the extensive use of financing logic has changed IMFIs from focusing on both development and financial objectives to only considering sustainability as their primary mission. Arun and Hulme (2009) argued that the interaction of multiple logic within microfinance institutions, i.e. financial vs social, could pose some serious management dilemmas within microfinance institutions. Further, commercialization puts pressure on the field staffs to achieve financial targets and often neglect their poverty outreach mission to the poor. The well-known crisis in Andhra Pradesh, India where clients of microfinance institutions committed suicide after being shamed by field officers who tried to collect payments of loans (Mader, 2013; Taylor, 2011), provides a powerful case of the impact of financialization to microfinance clients.

scholarly journals Transit least-squares survey

2019 ◽  
Vol 627 ◽  
pp. A66 ◽  
Author(s):  
René Heller ◽  
Michael Hippke ◽  
Kai Rodenbeck
Keyword(s):  
Signal Detection ◽  
Least Squares ◽  
Visual Inspection ◽  
Detection Efficiency ◽  
Light Curves ◽  
Direct Result ◽  
Transiting Planets ◽  
Least Squares Algorithm ◽  
Orbital Periods ◽  
Primary Mission

The extended Kepler mission (K2) has revealed more than 500 transiting planets in roughly 500 000 stellar light curves. All of these were found either with the box least-squares algorithm or by visual inspection. Here we use our new transit least-squares (TLS) algorithm to search for additional planets around all K2 stars that are currently known to host at least one planet. We discover and statistically validate 17 new planets with radii ranging from about 0.7 Earth radii (R⊕) to roughly 2.2 R⊕ and a median radius of 1.18 R⊕. EPIC 201497682.03, with a radius of 0.692+0.059−0.048, is the second smallest planet ever discovered with K2. The transit signatures of these 17 planets are typically 200 ppm deep (ranging from 100 ppm to 2000 ppm), and their orbital periods extend from about 0.7 d to 34 d with a median value of about 4 d. Fourteen of these 17 systems only had one known planet before, and they now join the growing number of multi-planet systems. Most stars in our sample have subsolar masses and radii. The small planetary radii in our sample are a direct result of the higher signal detection efficiency that TLS has compared to box-fitting algorithms in the shallow-transit regime. Our findings help in populating the period-radius diagram with small planets. Our discovery rate of about 3.7% within the group of previously known K2 systems suggests that TLS can find over 100 additional Earth-sized planets in the data of the Kepler primary mission.

The Vocational Rehabilitation of Substance Abusers

1990 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sherry Deren ◽  
Joan Randell
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation ◽  
Substance Abusers ◽  
Alcohol Treatment ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Similar Treatment ◽  
Vocational Rehabilitation Services ◽  
Vocational Services ◽  
Primary Mission

This article discusses the need for increasing the utilization of vocational rehabilitation services in the treatment and rehabilitation of substance abusers. Vocational rehabilitation is also important in other similar treatment systems that do not have delivery of vocational services as their primary mission (e.g., alcohol treatment programs, criminal justice programs). Obstacles to the utilization of vocational services by treatment programs are summarized.

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