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- From: twallace@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Todd Wallace)
- Subject: FESA, Fully Employed Students Association
- Message-ID: <1993Jan5.174110.7250@gmuvax2.gmu.edu>
- Keywords: adult, employed
- Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
- References: <1992Dec28.124626.23201@cs.wayne.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 17:41:10 GMT
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- I am a grad student in the computer science program at George
- Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb of Washington
- DC. I also work full time as a Systems Administrator at a
- consulting firm in DC. Until recently, George Mason had a good
- reputation among fully-employed students because it offered most
- of its graduate classes at night. However, this spring
- semester, all computer science graduate classes have been
- scheduled at 4:30pm, making it very difficult if not impossible,
- for fully-employed students like me.
-
- Several fellow students and I are attempting to make our
- university more sensitive to the needs of the fully-employed
- student, particularly in these times of extreme competition in the
- workplace when so many people are going back for advanced
- degrees while they are employed.
-
- It would help our case a great deal if we could collect examples
- from around the world about how other universities have
- structured programs to make them more accessible to students who
- have to schedule their school around their work. I am looking
- for any sort of example that would strengthen my case that my
- university needs to sit up and take fully-employed students
- seriously.
-
- It seems especially ironic to me that now that I have the money
- and the motivation for advanced education, that I would be
- denied my dream of a master's degree and beyond simply because
- of insensitive scheduling.
-
- Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
- Todd Wallace
- twallace@gmuvax2.gmu.edu
-