Category: A & M San Antonio
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Monday April 7 2014 We professors are constantly peppered with questions about a student's grade. This is not surprising given the years and years of emphasis on just that. As a result, students have a hard time shifting hgars when the time comes. And by that I mean shifting gears to the only grade that…
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Weekend April 5 2014 Two ladies in Lubboock have hit on a clever idea for the ultimate insomewhat portable tail gating. Their idea uses a self contatined highly modified 8 x 20 Shipping Container. Frankly this is the sort of over the top idea I usually associate with an oil boomg. Speaking as…
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Monday March 31, 2014 E mail Prof Elam at dennis.elam@tamusa.tamus.edu if interested Immediate temporary to hire Compliance Analyst opportunity for recent/ May 2014 college graduates in SAN ANTONIO, TX with a Fortune 500 bank. Our client prefers degrees in Accounting, Finance, Math, Physics, Engineering, Economics; or Juris Doctorate. Ideal candidates should also have a GPA…
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Posted Weekend March 29 2014 Friday March 28 Faculty and Students visited Valero headquarters in San Antonio.VLO is just east of UTSA on tthe south side of North 1604. Thanks for TAMUSA student Marianna Otero for helping make this happen. Our tour guide was Katharine Farmer. Katharine came to VLO from UTSA Career Services where…
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Monday March 24, 2014 If you are invited to speak at TED, you have arrived. This is an annual high tech confab of who is who. Carminhe Gallo examined 500 TED talks and came up with these three recommendations. 1. Don't bore people with facts and figures, tell a story. Everyone from Bill Cosby to Jesus…
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Wednesday March 19, 2014 Here are the 30 Management Principles of the Marines. THe first, the 70% solution, means we never have all the intell we need. But wait for 80% and you will be the defender, not the attacker.
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Tuesday March 18, 2014 This past year the San Antonio Council of Petroleumn Accountants awarded five $1,000 scholarships. I urged our students to apply this past sumer. The result was that TAMUSA students were awarded two of the five. Amazingly at the awards ceremony we were the only ones You definitely do need to have a desire…
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Tuesday March 18, 2014 Please share the following information the accounting faculty and students. Currently, the odds of being awarded one of the five scholarships are very high. I thank you in advance for your assistance, and I look forward to awarding these scholarships at the San Antonio CPA Society's Accounting Excellence Awards/Meet the Firms luncheon on…
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Friday March 14 2014 Here is an article on your choice of college. The head of a public company puts a lot of stock in going to THE right school. The author notes that first time familty graduates are more likely to pick a regional school. Who is right? I taught an Intro to College class at…
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Wednesday March 12, 2014 Pauline Perry, Eric Watkins, and Beatrice Therwhanger attended the March 12 meeting of San Antonio Institute of Internal Auditors. We sat with the HEB group and had a nice discussion of their backgrounds and what it was like to be at HEB. The program focused on Service Organization Control Reports presented…
