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Speaking of mergers, MCC has merged the spring and summer semesters into a single semester. However, at least in the Business Division, most classes are going to be half semester (7-8 weeks) courses. Apparently there are financial aid reasons for making the change. However, from the every day perspective of taking a class, things will remain pretty much the same.
Here's my schedule. At this point, it looks highly probable each class will in fact run: Spring (First Half) Business Law I (BUSN 251-01), Main Campus, CM 2143, TH, 9 am to noon. Business Law I (BUSN 251-WWW01) Organizational Behavior (MMT 283-WWW01) Summer (Second Half) Human Resource Management (MGMT 286-WWW01) Principles of Management (MGMT 181-WWW01)
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McGraw Hill and Cengage announced they will be merging. If regulators approve the deal, it will have a major impact on my students here at Mott. Most of my classes are from one of those publishers, with the occasional Pearson title tossed in from time to time.
McGraw Hill's Connect is much better than Cengage's Mindtap. However, Cengage now has a subscription model where students pay once and can get all their books for that price. The sunny optimist in me hopes that we can get the best of both worlds with the good McGraw online system wedded to Cengage's pricing scheme. However, when dealing with textbook publishers it's hard not to think of the frog and the scorpion. With the textbook industry's history of taking advantage of the fact professors pick textbooks and therefore don't bear the cost, as well as thriving on the constant flow of federal dollars, there are reasons to be pessimistic. Here's to hoping antitrust regulators examine this deal carefully and make the right decision. Saginaw County celebrates Law Day today. The Law Day trials, however, were back in March. I advised the Birch Run High School team, which had one dual enrolled Mott student. We lost our trial to Nouvel, but they did a great job and were worthy victors.
The case involved a high school student accused of killing a construction worker in accident caused by the student's texting and driving. We represented the defendant, who had admitted to texting while driving and had just been warned by a state trooper not to do it. We tried to shift blame to another driver who pulled in front of our client's car. But Nouvel kept coming back to the fact that our client was not paying attention to what she was doing. That was the winning strategy and is exactly what real lawyers would do. We, as the Law Day Committee, picked this case because we believed it drives home the point that texting and driving can kill people. Our hope was that at least one student will stop driving distracted which may save someone's life some day. I should also mention we adapted the case from a Genesee County Bar Association problem. We were able to change I 475 to I 675 and were pretty much good to go. We appreciate their allowing us to use the problem. |
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