The new School of Computer Information Technology CIT Building is a 120,000 sq. ft., high-tech classroom, and administrative building containing over 3,600 data connection drops. The classroom and lecture halls incorporate the latest technologies in data networking and audio/video capabilities. This was a design-building fast track project by the Board...
Through this paper the audience will understand how to perform time studies by first writing, verifying and executing Standard Operating Procedures SOP. Once the process has been documented, workers can then perform their time study using either stopwatches or videotape. The data collected helps create equivalencies that can be used...
Project Management finds its origins back as far as the building of the Egyptian Pyramids and the Great Wall of China. Many disciplines including construction, engineering, and operations management have found the use of Project Management as an integral part to their success. This same importance is resonating throughout the...
This paper presents a Sales Management Simulation that was used in a class during Fall. The simulation is an online version that can easily be submitted by students and easily administered by faculty. As indicated by student responses to a survey, they found the simulation experience an excellent learning tool...
Businesses must have a global perspective in order to identify opportunities and threats of today's marketplace. Although warding off threats from global competitors is necessary, firms should also actively seek to penetrate foreign markets. The optimal choice of entry mode depends on the strategy of the firm. One way for...
There are a variety of group projects that can be used in the Sales Management class. One that I have found to be particularly educational for students is based on an article by Dubinsky and Hansen (1981). For this project, students form groups of three students. Their objective is for...
'Rev. A' launch means faster access to Internet, video, music and more STATESBORO, Ga. -- Alltel Wireless today announced that it will continue expanding its wireless broadband network in 2008 with the launch of EVDO evolution data optimized Revision A technology in Statesboro, enabling customers to upload files...
Optimize your healthcare supply chain performance; a strategic approach. Ledlow, Gerald R. et al. Health Administration Press 2007 70 pages $41.00 Paperback RA971 Ledlow Georgia Southern University, Corry Aramark, and Cwiek Central Michigan University...
"Everybody Was Black Down There": Race and Industrial Change in the Alabama Coalfields. By Robert H. Woodrum. Politics and Culture in the Twentieth-Century South. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 304. Paper, $24.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2879-9; cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2739-6.) ...
Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists: Farmer-Labor Insurgency in the Late-Nineteenth-Century South. By Matthew Hild. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xvi], 327. $42.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2897-3.) The literature on Populism is replete with references to the contributions...
Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860. Edited by Stephen Berry. Publications of the Southern Texts Society. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. xiv, 554. $44.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2884-3.) Historian Stephen Berry has chosen...
Globalization and the American South. Edited by James C. Cobb and William Stueck. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2005. Pp. [xviii], 229. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-8203-2648-8; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 0-8203-2647-X.) "The South was global, so to speak, when global...
Black Masculinity and the U.S. South: From Uncle Tom to Gangsta. By Riche Richardson. New Southern Studies. (Athens, Ga., and London: University of Georgia Press, c. 2007. Pp. [xiv], 296. Paper, $22.95, ISBN 978-0-82032890-4; cloth, $49.95, ISBN 978-0-8203-2609-2.) "It's hard out here for...
SITE: At the University of Georgia's Stegeman Coliseum. THURSDAY TEAM PRELIMINARIES: The top three teams from each session advance to Friday's Super Six NCAA championships. The preliminaries also determine the all-around championship. SESSION 1: The Thursday afternoon session begins at 11 a.m. MDT and...
ATHENS, Ga. -- Elise Wheeler quit doing gymnastics for five years. She restarted her career at age 18. A few months later, Southern Utah gymnastics coach Scott Bauman came calling. "I had only been working out for a couple of months. I was nowhere near where I...
MINNEAPOLIS -- Utah State freshman Jasmine Minion said she kept thinking "Big vault, big vault" as she competed in her first NCAA regional gymnastics competition. She did just what she was thinking. "Best vault, best score," she said of the 9.90 she totaled at...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A controlled burn of underbrush conducted Wednesday by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources DNR, Georgia Southern University GSU, and Rayonier will benefit the growth of one of Georgia's rarest plants, and strengthen the partnership between three parties actively interested in sustainable forestry. The prescribed...
Southern Utah University has never qualified as a team for the NCAA women's gymnastics championships, but coach Scott Bauman looks at Saturday's North Central Regional at Minnesota as his team's best chance yet to take the big step. "This is probably the best shot we've ever had,"...
Barry T Hirsch, *Barry T. Hirsch is the W.J. Usery Chair of the American Workplace, Department of Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30302-3992, and research fellow, IZA Bonn, Germany; bhirsch@gsu.edu This presidential address was presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southern...
