Education Minnesota, formerly known as the Minnesota Education Association, has its yearly conference in mid-October -- right now, to be exact. Educators from around the state, primarily in K-12 education, gather to hear speakers, go to workshops, and visit exhibits in the St. Paul RiverCentre. In other words, it's a normal conference.
I've just skimmed the Exhibitors list, and I see some higher education institutions have booths: Alexandria Technical College, Augsburg, Bemidji State, Bethel, St. Catherine, St. Scholastica, Concordia, Hamline, Mankato, North Hennepin CC, St. Cloud, UW-River Falls, UW-Stout, U of M (both Twin Cities and Duluth), St. Thomas -- even Globe "University" and Walden.
Notice anything about this list? Century's absent. Yet we have an "education program," a relatively new program designed to produce "paraeducators" as well as students who will transfer to four-year education programs.
Why isn't Century setting up shop at this conference? Especially when we are trying to grow our program. I really don't understand the choices our institution makes.
Evacuation roots
5 hours ago
2 comments:
We probably don't have a booth because the conference falls over our pathetic excuse for a fall break... which, of course, we should all spend at the conference... right -- I forgot :).
Ah, yes, our "break"!
But it's a faculty break, not a staff break . . . but our admissions office doesn't seem to do these kinds of things . . . what does it do, exactly??
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