ALUMNI PROGRAM
IN TOUCH More than 170 alumni and guests attended the Alumni Program 2000, which included a half day of sessions designed to update alumni on current issues in research and management, followed by an evening cocktail reception.( Clockwise from top left): Amy Tucker( MBA2) with professor Michael Vitale, dean, and instructor Keith Dawes; John Counter( EMBA’ 98) and Kevin Turner( MBA’ 00); Phil Lawrence( GDM’ 94), speaker Neil Sylvester of marchFIRST, Dominic Wong( MBA’ 98), Teresa de Leon( MBA’ 97), Lisa Carlin( MBA’ 97) and Peter Strang( MBA’ 96); Mark Stepherd( MBA’ 96) and Terry Dwyer( MBA’ 95); and( far left) Peter Gow( SMDP’ 00).
Life Long Learning
Are you on the lookout for accessible information for solving specific management practice problems? Do you like the idea of a condensed update of major new issues in management? Then stay tuned to the AGSM’ s new Life Long Learning program. The 2001 initiative will provide new information, research and management practice education services to AGSM alumni designed to contribute to problem solving and career advancement.
“ The first step is a survey to find out exactly what our alumni want in the form of information services and ongoing management practice education. Then we’ ll introduce some information services as test initiatives, including a discussion forum where people can seek support from other AGSM alumni on management practice issues,” says Dr Anne Lytle, the new manager of Life Long Learning.
“ In the near future we hope to introduce an Australia-wide management practice forum for alumni that will see AGSM academics travel regularly to capital cities to deliver short-course management practice updates.”
Other Life Long Learning initiatives under consideration include Internetbased short courses, classes delivered via video conference, specialist management practice mentoring, and consulting services.
If you have suggestions for the AGSM’ s Life Long Learning program, or would like further information, please contact Anne Lytle at e-mail: alytle @ agsm. edu. au.
Statisticians take note
The Journal of the American Statistical
Association marked the beginning of the new millennium with a year-long initiative in 2000 to celebrate the major developments in statistics in the 20th century. For each of its quarterly editions, the editors invited academics worldwide to write a short article about specific subject areas, covering theory and methods, social sciences and business, physical sciences and engineering, and life / medical sciences.
The AGSM’ s professor Simon Sheather was invited to collaborate with longstanding research partners professor Joseph W. McKean and professor Thomas P. Hettmansperger to produce an article entitled‘ Robust non parametric methods’( December 2000).
The articles are described by an editor as“ a collection [ that ] is nothing short of marvellous”.
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