Last Thursday & Friday the Quoin Foundation hosted the Educators Conference for Region 5 which includes schools in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, & Louisiana. We had two presentations and some healthy round table discussions.
On Thursday Nancy Barry spoke to us from her book When Reality Hits: What Employer Want Recent College Graduates to Know. It was a great presentation and fit the audience of industry members and educators. Our round table discussion brought up some great ideas on what universities can do to teach their students about what to expect when you come into the workforce and what we as the industry can to do train and develop those graduates.
Friday morning Joe Powell of Rice University Building Institute spoke about performance characteristics of the world's most competitive A/E/C firms as well as what will be needed to join the next generation of global market leaders. Joe Powell is the author of The New Competitiveness in Design Construction. I was not able to attend but the feedback I got about the presentation was that it was very beneficial.
I plan on writing more about Nancy's presentation since it deals strictly with college graduates and that is currently what is taking up all my time right now. Stay tuned
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