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two jobs, one in industry and one in academia as a TA while getting my
masters in Tech. com.) I don't know that the door of professionalism
will ever open to cooperation with academia. ... THREAD CLIPPED TO
ALLOW NEW POST.
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class=592544416-06122006>Le Ann:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=592544416-06122006>As a 28-year veteran of "corporate America" who has
kept one foot in the classroom as an adjunct instructor, I'm not naive enough to
disagree with your observations about the bottom line. However, I believe
you are treading dangerously close to the line between realism and
cynicism. What you're leaving out is the human element. It is as
easy to malign a faceless corporate or government monolith as it is difficult to
deal with it. But what are corporations and government entities other than
aggregations of individuals? Many of whom, yes, are too focused on the
bottom line (and their own survival and advancement within the
corporate or bureaucratic jungle) to care about outreach to academe. But
just as we can also find members of the academy who are focused on survival and
self-aggrandizement rather than pedagogy (e.g., "publish or perish"), we can
find people within the corporate "monster" who are genuinely committed to
outreach.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=592544416-06122006>As one small example, Mike Murray (an STC director),
W.C. Wiese (STC treasurer), and I all work for Lockheed Martin in Orlando; and
we have, for nearly 2 decades, also been very active within STC, based within
the Orlando Chapter. We and many other professional practitioners in
the Orlando Chapter who represent several other businesses, both large and
small, in Central Florida, have formed a dynamic partnership with the
University of Central Florida's technical communication faculty within the
English Department. And the Engineering Department at Lockheed Martin
has an active internship program with UCF. As an example, I have a meeting
scheduled in January with a UCF professor to give her a point of contact within
Engineering, to explore the possibility of tying students within the
university's new Ph.D. program in technical communication in to the internship
program. Lockheed Martin, as well as several other businesses in Central
Florida, annually sponsors the Orlando Chapter's "Operation Rising Stars"
fund-raiser that helps sustain a highly successful scholarship program at
UCF and an equally robust high school tech writing
competition. Once again, it boils down to <U>people</U>--in this
case, the Community Relations manager who governs the company's philanthropic
outreach program and the print shop manager, who has provided pro bono printing
to the chapter each year. Both are my professional friends and colleagues
at Lockheed Martin. You couldn't meet more caring people ... and we all
work for the largest defense company in the world--one which, like any
company, is certainly concerned with the bottom line. We must meet
our responsibility to our shareholders at the same time we meet our
responsibility to those who go into harm's way to defend the nation.
There's nothing unethical about that, nor does it preclude outreach to
academe.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=592544416-06122006>I'm not saying your frustrations are unfounded, and I
don't mean to trivialize the disappointments you have experienced. Nor am I
suggesting there can be a total solution. But I do believe there are many
giving corporate professionals within STC who, in turn, know many other
like-minded professionals within corporate America. Together, we can
put a "face" on the corporate monster and open up real dialogue and cooperation
between industry and the academy.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=592544416-06122006>My two cents ...</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=592544416-06122006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=592544416-06122006>:-)</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=592544416-06122006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=592544416-06122006>Dan Voss, Communications Manager<BR>Lockheed Martin
Missiles and Fire Control, Orlando Florida</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=592544416-06122006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=592544416-06122006>STC Orlando Chapter, AccessAbility and Academic
SIGs</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=592544416-06122006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=592544416-06122006>Adjunct Instructor, Webster
University</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=592544416-06122006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> bounce-stc-ac-277425 at lists.stc.org
[mailto:bounce-stc-ac-277425 at lists.stc.org] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Le Ann
Mounce<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 06, 2006 11:16 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
stc-ac<BR><B>Subject:</B> [stc-ac] Re: NEW TOPIC: Academia and
Industry<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">From one hyperactive to
another, (one who also has three children with two jobs, one in industry and one
in academia as a TA while getting my masters in Tech. com.) I don't know that
the door of professionalism will ever open to cooperation with
academia. <SPAN class=455415918-06122006><FONT
color=#0000ff> ... THREAD CLIPPED TO ALLOW NEW
POST. </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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