NEW TOPIC: Academia and Industry

[Lu Rehling]

Thanks, Bonni--In addition to the items that you list below, I'd
suggest:

Provide incentives to practitioners and their employers to make their
staffs, work products, and workplaces subjects for academic research
studies and/or to invite academics to provide research-based workplace
consulting and training.

Provide incentives for involving academic researchers in developing
standards for publication competitions, being active as judges and judge
trainers, and communicating about lessons learned from evaluating
workplace documents submitted for judging.

Eliminate a separate stem for research or academics at conferences, and
instead require all presentation proposals to be research-based, and/or
provide incentives for talks or panels that are co-presented by
professors and practitioners who have engaged in collaborative projects.

Segregate company-sponsored product showcase and training presentations
from presentations by professionals working in the field (whether as
industry practitioners or as academics) and charge companies to offer
these presentations at conferences, which could help to subsidize
incentives for higher quality non-commerical presentations.

Develop and promote models for academic researchers and professors who
are internship supervisors to provide consulting and assessment services
to practitioners and their employers about their internship and junior
employee mentoring/training programs and about their work products and
practices.

Develop and promote models for academic-industry advisory boards.

I should add that I do not agree with your suggestion of adding an
STC-sponsored academically-focused conference, because I think that
ATTW, CPTSC, and other conferences perform that function pretty
well.--Lu

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Louise Rehling, Ph.D.
Director, Technical & Professional Writing Program
Professor, College of Humanities
San Francisco State University
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HUM 413; 415-338-3988; RehlingL at sfsu.edu 

TPW Program:
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-----Original Message-----
From: bounce-stc-ac-277434 at lists.stc.org
[mailto:bounce-stc-ac-277434 at lists.stc.org] On Behalf Of Bonni Graham
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 6:13 AM
To: stc-ac
Subject: [stc-ac] NEW TOPIC: Academia and Industry


I'm curious:

What do you folks see as the best way to forge a tighter 
link between academia and industry? In my case, it's 
automatic: I run my own tech comm company and work for an 
employer (which is why you might see emails from me from 
either of two addresses), in addition to being adjunct 
faculty at two UC campuses (plus I have three kids - this 
is what adult hyperactives do with themselves).

I see some of the following things that STC can do (and in 
some cases has done and is continuing to do):

* Sponsor industry internships for students
* Sponsor industry fellowships/sabbaticals for professors
* Provide a list of questions about the practice of tech 
comm that practitioners would love to or need to know more 
about but lack the time to research themselves (similar to 
the article about heading frequency and comprehension that 
appeared in the most recent Journal)
* Continue to publish the Journal
* Reduce conference rates (or seek corporate partnerships, 
or provide a template for how to seek corporate 
partnerships)
* Create an academically-focused annual conference
* Invite more local academics to speak at local chapters 
about current research (chapter presidents - are you 
listening?)

I'm only one brain - help me out! : )

b

Bonni Graham
Manual Labour, Inc.
858-366-0170
www.manuallabour.com
Making Technology Easier

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