Been a long week...

I have class again tonight, and it's been a long week. I attended the Penn State Faculty Senate meeting at University Park on Tuesday and still made it back in time for my Tuesday night class (SYSEN 554). I spent last night reading a case study for tonight's class and a paper for next Tuesday.

I have to write a project proposal paper this weekend for next Tuesday night. After my day at the Faculty Senate (feeling like a red-headed stepchild because I was the only student senator in the various meetings that I attended that wasn't a full time student in the University's systems), I think I have an idea for a project for that class which may even fit in, possibly, with the project for INSC 539 (which is the class I started this blog for). PSU Great Valley students are completely different than a majority of students at Penn State (even the other Graduate Students), with the exception of, maybe, the students at the Hershey Medical Center.

So, I'm thinking that my project for SYSEN 554 will be on the development of a process whereby the students at Great Valley can provide feedback to the Faculty of Great Valley (through the Faculty Senate and the the student senators), and the University as a whole, keeping in mind the fact that they have lives and careers and families outside of school, and typically probably don't spend more than 6 hours a week on campus (unless they're taking more than one class). I can use the project (I hope) for INSC 539 to develop or look at newer technologies (blogs, facebook, etc) that might be able to act as a mechanism for enabling the feedback process and get Great Valley students more involved on campus and be informed about what's going on at the University as a whole and Great Valley in general..

Thoughts - just hit the comments...

Jim