Category: A & M San Antonio

  • Posted monday April 22 2013 Tuesday April 23 in Room 168 Robert Burdwell has invited Lawanda Parnell, CIO at Pedernales Electric Coop, to speak on campus tomorrow at 2pm to talk about being a CIO as well as using SAP in the business environment. Please feel free to attend and/or bring your class.   Thanks.…

  • Monday April 22 2013 Texas Tech  will be the first University in Texas to establish a separate School of Accounting. This puts accounting on an equal footing with their law and medical schools. This only makes sense.  My take is that the smaller schools around the state would be better off to focus on Certified…

  • Thursday April 18 2013 Dear Faculty, ITAC (the university’s Information Technology Advisory Council) is looking at several different options for streaming video and student email.  Before we make a decision, we would like student input as to what are the important and needed functionalities.   A link to a survey has already been posted on…

  • Tuesday April 9 2013 Texas A&M University-San Antonio values the opinions and feedback of our students on the quality of instruction. The "Student Rating of Instruction" (SRI) system gives each student a brief survey for each course he or she is enrolled in at Texas A&M-San Antonio. This semester, we will be conducting the SRIs…

  • Weekend April 7 2013 The fifth annual Swouthwest Teaching and Learning Conference was held this weekend at Main Campus. Here are a few photos of what happened.  Leticia Ozuna pictured here with Douglas Carter. As the City Councilwoman from the area including our school, she sdelieverd a fine  talk about leadership and her vision for…

  • Wednesday April 3, 2013 Joe Dupuy is our student tutor. His new hours are   Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 1-5 PM in Room 128 Also from 7-8 PM in the evening TWR, call for appointment The number to call is 210 784 1329

  • Tuesday April 2 2013 Not long ago I suggested we offer extra curricular classes to obtain the Certified Book keeper designation. This was met with a big yawn, college students don't want to become book keepers. Well one needs to understand book keeping to understand accounting. This was clear on a recent question regarding a…

  • Posted Monday April 1, 2013 Learn more about Toastmasters Here. Toastmasters is an organization dedicated to improving your public speaking ability. Richard Jenkins is organizing the group. I am delighted to report good interest and that we have some students who have Toastmaster Experience. If we can attract students from all three Schools that will…

  • Thursday March 28 2013 Tim Kuhn Chief internal Auditor for HOLT CAT , spoke to students and faculty at TAMUSA at noon today. Ten faculty members toured HOLT CAT two years ago hosted  by Paul Hensley CFO for HOLT.  Tim did a fine job explaining the various entities involved in HOLT CAT. HOLT CAT is…

  • Wed March 27 2013 Tim Kuhn with Holt CAT will speak in the small auditorium tomorrow at noon. His position as Chief Internal Auditor brings him in contact with the entire operation. I met him at the SA IIA chapter meeting. Please plan on attending; networking is key to your career success.