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...Cole, 48, has been an investment adviser in Atlanta, Texas, since 1989. Exhausted by the strain of keeping up with various investing strategies to serve his diverse client base, he hired Peter Montoya, whose firm, based in Tustin, Calif., specializes in marketing independent financial advisers. After identifying Cole's core values of family, church and hard work, plus his affinity for fishing, golf and travel, they came up with a focused brand for him: wealth planner for active retirees. Now Cole says he is "working with fewer clients, but they're more profitable." His revenue is up more than...
...Core Curriculum, the Task Force’s thinking goes, focuses too strongly on “ways of knowing” and too little on actual knowledge. So far so good; there is undoubtedly a certain breadth and depth of knowledge that every graduate ought to have...
...rather than take the next logical step and allow students to take more specific “knowledge-based” departmental classes instead of vague Core classes, the committee has opted for the opposite tack. The report sets out eight areas of general education with even vaguer titles than our current Core divisions, apparently favoring interdisciplinary superficiality over depth and coherence...
...heart of a liberal arts education merely because most students do not intend to remain in the academic world is ludicrous. Liberal arts education cannot simply be concerned with what is practical; if we begin going down that path, why not go the whole way and compose a Core Curriculum of accounting, carpentry, and “Empowering You?...
...aren’t sufficiently relevant to be included in the general education curriculum, the committee runs the risk of trivializing a host of departments and a number of highly distinguished academics. Though it may be that the scope of some courses makes them better suited to the new Core, the committee seems to be specifically accusing these courses of teaching material that is not worth knowing...