BusinessWeek (BW) magazine intend to name FAMU as one of the country’s “Most Innovative Colleges” in an upcoming issue. BW's article examines technology development and a colleges ability to take a novel from one area and apply it to another, a process commonly refered to as "technology transfer". The study was sponsored by the National Science Foundation and examined tech transfer results of smaller colleges and universities.
BW cited FAMU for innovation particularly in pharmaceutical research, physics, agriculture and the environmental sciences. FAMU's lead role in the TechLink project to promote technology transfer at the university and eight other Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) was highlighted. In addition, FAMU helps promote startups with an business incubator at the Innovation Park.
This is great news.....
ReplyDeleteWow!...innovative college and we can't even get our famu and other computer upgrades for the university. Damn!, how is it that folks can focus on other innovative things?
ReplyDeleteFAMU knows how to do more with less. Go Rattlers!
ReplyDelete"doing more with less" is certainly true. plenty faculty members do not have access to the Internet, still, in 2007. innovative? yeah, I've got your innovation. Who did these folks interview? and when did they survey what's there and/or not there? i'm not taking anyting away from the university, but damn, in 2007, plenty of us are still "doing without" and still must do 99.9.9% of university work at home usitilizing our own personal computers.
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Then quit and go work some place else.
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ReplyDeleteAlso in agreeance:
"Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it"
If you don't have internet access, go to the library...all of the computers there have it. If you are an employee, it won't hurt to get out there with the students...they don't bite.
1:09 You might reconsider your comments if you READ the nature of the awards. The award is not for employing technology in the FAMU workplace, it is for creating and diffusing technology for the benefit of society.
ReplyDelete10:56 If you're doing 99.9% of your work at home, how are you using the time on campus? Some might interpret your comments as those of a slacker or CVB hire.
8:25--F**k U.
ReplyDeleteI assure you, 6:34, I'm no CVB hire. I'm a tenured professor--and I assure you, I earned my stripes way before CVB came aboard. Apparently, you have no idea the amount of scholarship and research is required simply to provide students with the latest information and to generally, keep abreast. That, plus the library doesn't remain open 24/7, but the computer at my home does. When's the last time you were in academia, if ever?
ReplyDelete12:59--"Agreeance" is SO not a word. The word to which you are certainly attempting to use is: "agreement." Speaking of computers, perhaps an online dictionary would help you with approapriate use of common, everyday words.
ReplyDeletespelling correction on my above post: "appropriate."
ReplyDeleteAll of you complaining and whining faculty members get on board or get the hell away from FAMU. We don't need distractors on our campus.
ReplyDelete6:46 I paused from working on a conference paper and laughed out loud after reading your response!
ReplyDeleteSeriously, have you considered using a laptop with wireless connnection?
9:39--I own one of those as well. But what I own, and what a first-class university should provide its faculty members for use in their office, has no bearing. If I didn't have a LT, I assure you I'd be in serious trouble. Black folk are so use to doing without and are so accustomed to "making do" that expecting basic essentials--a computer in faculty members' office to engage the work of their work--becomes a debate to be carried out on a blogspot. We are just so use to poor treatment that anything--for some folks--is better than nothing. I assure you that lack of computers for faculty members is a problem across the campus--one that has been "addressed" from president to president. Sometimes, not often, mind you, folks just might wish to not engage a couple of hours at home of work-related work that could be engaged at work. Doesn't work at our premier HBCU, though.
ReplyDeletei agree that black people are use to having little, so whenever we get the promise of something, whatever it might be we shout for joy. we've all bought into that more-for-less myth.
ReplyDeleteDidn't the BOT just approve funds for technology upgrades? If so, doesn't it include computers for the campus? Why don't we give this new president to do what the last president should have done?
ReplyDeleteOne more question; what in the hell are FAMU faculty members doing posting on a gossip blog?
same reason famu students and supporter our on this blog!
ReplyDeleteYOU people make it a gossip blog, which was not the blog's original intent.
ReplyDeleteI din't know that the blog was only for certain people. I thought it was for whomever wanted to comment on things, no matter their profession. Didn't know it was only for students and supporters.
ReplyDeletethe 6:34 blogger is ignorant of how faculty conduct research and/or teach.
ReplyDeleteThis blog is for people who only post good things. Kind of like Fox and the Bush Administration.
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