Professor Elam

Up and Coming Intern Announcemeent

Posted Tuesday Jan 21 202

We will have a posting for TAMUSA students to apply for Spring 2021 Audit or Tax Internships, I hope we are able to speak with some of the campuses best and brightest. I will send the posting to you as soon as it is live.

 

Thanks,

AMP

 

Anna-Marie Parker

Campus Recruiter | Marketing Coordinator | BKD
8200 W. Interstate 10, Suite 900

San Antonio, TX 78230
210.341.9400 Ext. 42656

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San Antonio Institute Internal Auditors Upcoming Meetings

January 18, 2020

 

Upcoming Events

2/17/2020 Auditing Social Media (IIA-ISACA joint luncheon) 3/30/2020 2020 Conference Sponsorship 3/30/2020 6th Annual 'I Heart Audit' Conference

 

Register as a student here

https://chapters.theiia.org/san-antonio/Events/Pages/default.aspx

The joint luncheon will be at Maggiano's at the Rim shopping Center 11 00 - 1 30 AM

11 30 - 1 30 Persentation

Conference at the Marriott SAn Antonio Hill Country Resort, a chance to network all day

https://chapters.theiia.org/san-antonio/Events/Pages/default.aspx

 

 

NE ISD Ends class Ranking for Students not in Top 10%

Wed Jan 15, 2019

https://therivardreport.com/north-east-isd-to-end-class-rankings-for-students-not-in-top-10/?utm_campaign=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter-daily&utm_content=editorial&utm_term=education&utm_source=Rivard+Report&utm_campaign=ce7de9f0f2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_12_21_07_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1576c62124-ce7de9f0f2-84736689&mc_cid=ce7de9f0f2&mc_eid=b3fa08cd6c

 

Excerpt from article

Citing a desire to strike the right balance between rigorous academics and students’ stress levels, North East Independent School District trustees voted Monday night to end calculating class rank for students below the top 10 percent. The policy will take effect when the district’s current class of seventh graders enters high school.

“It is really important we have just the right tension on social-emotional learning when we think about rank,” said Colleen Bohrmann, NEISD’s executive director of Learning Support Services, at a December meeting. “We want to be sure that we are pushing the students to a rigorous coursework, but when is it too much?”

With no discussion and no district residents speaking on the matter, trustees unanimously approved the second and final reading of the policy Monday night. The approved changes to the policy can be viewed here in red.

 

Dear Colleen

 

Apparently the right tension is not tension!  If you are now in the  89th percentile, what will be the incentive to work or try if an observer cannot distinguish you from the one percentile, ie bottom of the class?

And here is a comment from a Chief Academic Officer

“We’ve found over time that labeling all students with an exact rank feeds a culture of unhealthy competition, stress, and pressure,” Katy ISD Chief Academic Officer Christine Caskey told the Houston Chronicle at the time of the policy change.

There’s no one rule that mandates how class rank should be calculated in Texas, Hardcastle told trustees. This often leads to districts calculating grade point averages and rank differently, he add

Dear Christine

Well if it's good for the goose, how about the gander?  If this is a good idea in class, can it be long  before say Clemson wants the same deal given its loss to LSU?  No doubt that was a as you put it ' culture of unheallthy competiition' and on national tv no less, how embarrassing, what a blow to self esteem!

Oh and now that one thru 89 percent is the same percent, what does the Chief Academic Officer do all day I wonder, well there is that pesky ten percent to worry about but gee surely they are not in need of much help, but someone does need to calculate that in  fact they are tenth and not eleventh.

As I recall TAMUSA admits the top 25% with no questions asked, hm how are we to measure the lost 15 percentile I wonder?

sigh....

IMA Webinar Wed Jan 22 12 PM CST

Posted Jan 6  2020

My name is Alexandra Graham and I am the IMA Chapter Coordinator here at Gleim. I look forward to presenting to the San Antonio IMA Chapter about the CMA exam and how Gleim can help you pass the CMA exam on the first try.

This webinar will be offered on Wednesday January 22nd, at 12pm Central (1pm Eastern) through Adobe Connect.

The meeting room link to attend is here (inactive until 12pm Central):

http://meet36589012.adobeconnect.com/rbwmjx7v6jfc/

**You will need to make sure you have the following to view/hear it:

1) Chrome browser is preferred (Internet Explorer will also work, as will Safari (on MacOS))

2) Laptop or PC with internet connection, speakers

3) Must have latest download of Adobe Flash

*Download instructions here (NOTE: You will need to restart your browser following installation):

    Download latest version of Adobe Flash: https://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

    Enable Flash in Internet Explorer: https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/install-flash-player-windows.html

    Enable Flash in Safari: https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/enabling-flash-player-safari.html

    -This should be done prior to presentation time in case facility restrictions do not allow for downloading plugins

    - You will be prompted to install/allow shortly after following the Adobe Connect link (if you do not have this)

4) PC microphone for communicating during questions (optional as chat feature also available)

For any assistance contact Gleim Technical Support @ 1-800-874-5346 ext. 212

I hope you can make it!

Thanks,

Alexandra

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Alexandra Graham
Professor Relations Coordinator
IMA Chapter Coordinator
800-874-5346 ext. 428

Six things Great Swpeakers Always Do

Weekend Oct 19 2019

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/6-things-great-speakers-always-do-a-tedx-organizer-shares-the-secrets-of-becoming-a-tedx-speaker?utm_source=pocket-newtab

Assistance in Writing Academic Papers

Weekend Oct 19 2019

The writing center is located on the second floor of the Central Academic Building.

http://www.tamusa.edu/College-of-Arts-and-Sciences/Language-Literature-Arts/english/writing-center/HowToMakeAnAppointment.html

https://jagsync.tamusa.edu/organization/writing-center

See APA help in Get Smart located on your main BB page

It was handily on the library page but of course they had to move it for no good reason and of course this morning the school IT cannot locate BB

 

TXCPA Fall Accounting Career Workshop

Posted Monday Sept 23 2019

https://sacpasociety.com/continuing-education-events/save-the-date-fall-2019-accounting-careers-workshop/

 

This Friday Sept  27 5 30 - 9 00 plan to arrive way early as the traffic on north 410 late Friday is impossible to navigate

Norris Conference Center

Register above

Mays Center Hosts Volunteer Organizations

Wednesday Sept 18 2019

The Mays Center hosted a group of  volunteer non profits on campus today. Students and faculty had the chance to interface with them one on one.

 

I visited with Mary Flannigan, Director of Communications and Partnerships at SA Youth Literacy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This group recruits volunteers to assist second graders with a reading program. Testing begins in the third grade. So  assisting with a push toward reading makes sense at this time. We see the results of testing reading out of education. Far too often not college ready means a lack of reading comprehension, what did you read?  And good writing only results from good reading.

Business Library Letter

Monday Sept 9 2019

Welcome back CoB faculty,

I hope your summer was enjoyable, and you are having a good start to the new semester. Please, follow the link below to your University Library newsletter.

 

https://mailchi.mp/f7b20c8e50e5/cobfall2019

 

Have a great day!

 

Marina Narvaez

Business Librarian

Texas A&M University- San Antonio

(210) 784-1510

 

Entrepreneurial Spirit: South Texas Women in Business

Weekend July 6, 2019

Texas A & M University San Antonio will sponsor the symposium  Entrepreneurial Spirit: South Texas Women in Business.  The inaugural event will occur

Friday November 1, 2019. It will be held in the Vista Room  with its spectacular view of the drive  from South Loop 410 into Campus.  The Vista Room (402)  is located on the Fourth Floor of the Central Academic Building.  Women are in the news more than ever which makes this an ideal topic for our new annual event.  The event is open to both men and women.

 

Register at

 

http://bit.ly/ESConference2019

 

The fee is modest at $30 per attendee or $240 for a table of eight.   That includes morning coffee and a light lunch.

The proposed agenda is as follows.

AM

10: 30    Registration and Coffee, Fourth Floor, Academic Building

11:00    Opening Remarks Office of the President Cynthia Matson

11:10     Alyssa Hayden, CEO Socionomics Institute , Why Women Now?

11:35      Dr. Amy Porter,  The Female Experience: South Texas 1800-1850

PM

12:00    Lunch

12:20     Corinna Holt Richter, CEO Holt Caterpillar, The Values of HOLT Make us Who We Are

12:50    Reset for Town Hall Presentation

1:00     Patricia Stout. CEO / President, The Alamo Travel Group

1:15    Cecilia Garcia, The Priority Group, Commercial Real Estate

1:30     Town Hall Meeting with All Speakers Available to the Audience

Networking to follow in the afternoon.

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Alyssa Hayden

Alyssa Hayden is CEO of he Socionomics Institute.  The Institute promotes the study of Socionomics which explains that changes in endogenous social mood activate social change.   She studied education and culture while teaching at  at the University of Oregon where she received her Masters Degree.

Dr. Amy Porter

Dr. Amy Porter was be inducted into the Texas A&M University System annual Chancellor's Academy of Teacher Educators in  2015. Dr. Porter, an author and avid researcher of colonial America and women’s history.  She authored Heir Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750 - 1846.

Corinna Holt Richter

Siblings Peter Holt and Corinna Richter have owned and managed HOLT CAT since 2017. Now the largest Caterpillar dealer in the country, with over 2,700 employees and more than 50 locations throughout Texas, HOLT CAT is a fifth-generation family-owned business headquartered in Southeast San Antonio. Peter Holt serves as CEO and General Manager of HOLT CAT, while Richter is the company’s President and Chief Administrative Officer.

 

Pat is the Founder/CEO/President of The Alamo Travel Group, LP. Established in 1990 in San Antonio, Texas, Alamo Travel has expanded to become a nationwide provider of corporate, leisure, federal and state travel services. Alamo Travel is a certified travel service provider for federal and state employees by the State of Texas, the General Services Administration and the Department of Defense.

The Priority Group was founded and is personally managed by Cecilia G. Garcia. Ms. Garcia is a proven specialist and has over 21 years experience in leasing, sales, management, accounting, construction and marketing  of commercial properties (Industrial, Office, Retail).

For more information contact

 

Dennis Elam PhD CPA

dennis.elam@tamusa.edu

210 784 2322