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Wednesday, November 8, 1995, Volume 94, Number 6 • Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD 57401
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Culture is topic of seventh
Business Workshop
UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
ABERDEEN, SD - The South Dakota Inter-national
Business Institute (SDIBI), located
on the campus of Northern State University,
will be holding its seventh workshop in a
series of eight from 1 to 5 p.m. on Wednes-day,
Nov. 15. The seminar topic is "Doing
Business in a Multi-Cultural World."
Topics to be discussed during the presenta-tion
will include the importance of culture,
overcoming the ethnocentric bias, areas
where cultures tend to differ and managing,
marketing and negotiation in a multi-cultural
world.
Keynote speaker for the presentation will be
Dr. John E. Cleek, professor of international
business at the University of Missouri-Kan-sas
City, where he is also director of the
Center of International Business. In addition,
Cleek is the founder and CEO of a $3 million
import/export management and trading com-pany,
serving clients throughout the world.
He received his doctoral degree from the
University of Kentucky in 1967.
This workshop is offered through the Rural
Development Telecommunications Network,
and it will be broadcast in the following cities:
Aberdeen, Mitchell, Rapid City, Sioux Falls,
Vermillion and Watertown. For more informa-tion,
call 626-3149.
The remaining workshop in this series spon-sored
by SDIBI is "Overview of the Letter of
Credit Process" on Dec. 13. Registration must
be completed by the first of the month in which
the workshop is scheduled.
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The South Dakota Board
of Regents is considering the
initiative of implementing
Student Proficiency exams
at the end of the students
Sophomore year. Students
successfully completing the
exams above the estab-lished
scores would be per-mitted
to continue their edu-cation
with their academic
program.
The Board believes this will
respond to the public and
legislative concerns about
the preparation of university
graduates. This initiative will
eventually require that each
baccalaureate degree recipi-ent
demonstrate his or her
competence in communica-tion,
quantitative skills, prob-lem-
solving skills for the first
phase. The second phase
would be in his or her major
field of study prior to gradu-ation.
Asking the universities to
define appropriate criteria in
these areas and to recom-mend
appropriate measures
for those criteria, the board
would like to see rapid iden-
ABERDEEN, SD - A work-shop
titled "Small Business
on the Internet" is being co-ordinated
by the Small Busi-ness
Institute (SBI) and
South Dakota International .
Business Institute (SDIBI),
both in the School of Busi-ness
at Northern State Uni-versity,
along with lway In-ternet
Services of Sioux Falls
and PCLAN of Aberdeen.
The hands-on seminar will
consist of two presentations
taking place from 9 to 11:30
a.m. and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
on Monday, Nov. 13, in the
Krikac Administration Build-ing,
Computer Lab 106, on
the NSU campus.
Registration will begin at
8:30 a.m. at the front desk in
the Administration Building.
The morning sessions will
consist of a broad overview
of the Internet and how small
businesses can use the In-ternet
for a variety of pur-poses.
Specifically, this over-tification
of it so a pilot pro-gram
can be conducted in
the Spring of 1996 and the
first phase of the initiative
fully implemented in the
Spring of 1997. The Board
recognizes that the variety
of branches in learning
makes addressing the cri-teria
in the students field of
study a complex task, so
the schedule for implement-ing
the second phase has
not yet been established.
The committee conduct-ing
the comparison of the
measurement instruments
will look at a number of vari-ables,
including cost, test
times and flexibility in ad-ministration,
and the avail-ability
of student scores and
norm or criteria references,
along with matching the ob-jectives
of each test with
the objectives of the Board's
accountability concerns. In-cluded
in the inventory of
existing instruments are:
College Outcome Mea-sure
Program (COMP)
College Assessment of
view session will include
electronic mail, an introduc-tion
to Internet browsers
(Netscape), navigating the
"net," obtaining government
data and other information
via the Internet, download-ing
information, network
searches, visiting commer-cial
sites and using the In-temet
to do market research.
A familiarity with microcom-puters
and general knowl-edge
of Microsoft Windows
would prove helpful to the
participants.
The afternoon session will
provide an introduction to
publishing on the Internet
using a web publishing soft-ware
package. Complete
hands-on training will be
comprised of an overview of
publishing on the Internet;
commercial homepage pub-lishing;
hands-on training in
building, editing and saving
homepages; hosting
homepages; graphics; say-
Academic Proficiencies
(CAAP)
Academic Profile (AP)
Pre-Professional Skills
Test (PPST)
The Academic Affairs
Council and the Council of
Presidents and Superinten-dents
are "recommending
that students general
proficiencies be measured
by a rising junior exam." The
initial review indicates the
exam can be designed to
measure college level
proficiencies and that it might
be less expensive and
implemented more quickly
than a senior exit exam.
This initiative is intended
to demonstrate that each
student reaches the appro-priate
levels of achievement;
it is not an assessment of
program success or a means
to improve the curriculum.
"This initiative is separate
from, and does not replace,
assessment programs
implemented by each uni-versity
in response to North
Central Accreditation re-quirements."
ing and updating informa-tion
on host computers; and
scanning and conversion of
graphical images. Experi-ence
with a world-wide web
browser and/or participation
in Session I will give partici-pants
the required experi-ence.
The workshop will con-clude
with a follow-up open
house at the Center for Busi-ness
and Entrepreneurship
at 4:30 p.m.
Special guest speaker will
be Gery Barr, CEO of lway
Internet Services. All mate-rials,
computers, e-mail ad-dresses,
software and hard-ware
will be provided.
Registration will be taken
on a first-come, first-served
basis. Seating will be limited
to 30 participants. To regis-ter
or for more information,
contact SBI director Scott
Peterson at (605) 626-2304
or e-mail him at
petersos@wolf. northern, edu.
Board of Regents examine student profeciency
DANELLE ZWEIFEL, NEWS EDITOR
NSU's Small Business Institute
presents Internet workshop
UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS