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The Student Council has now opened up commenting on the Student Blog. All comments will be moderated. That means that if you place a comment on the board it will first be read by a student council member before it is approved for posting.
We are hoping that this will improve the usability of the blog and increase student participation within the community. We all look forward to your comments.
Best in your studies,
SMC Student Council
All doctoral students who are in the process of writing their dissertation are asked to contact Dr. Lloyd Williams our V.P. of Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty. Dr. Williams sits on each dissertation defense and as such he wishes to make sure that each potential graduate is on the right track and progressing according to plan. If you have not yet been in touch with him yet and are expecting to defend this academic year then you need to contact him.
Recently, the Student Council created the SMC Facebook group to help in keeping all the SMC students and alumni connected. Please feel free to search the group on Facebook and become a member. If you’re not already in Facebook, well then what are you waiting for?
As we are aware, each and every student is provided an SMC student email address in the form firstname.lastname@student.swissmc.ch upon being accepted into an SMC program. Starting today students are requested to use this email address as the primary address in all communication with both professors and administrative staff at the SMC. That is,
1. SMC Student eMails are now the primary eMail of contact and the only official eMail address for student / SMC communications.
2. All assignments, official requests and professor/staff communications are to be submitted using the SMC student eMail adressess. This is for authentication and tracking reasons by the SMC.
3. Personal eMail addresses will be removed from the SMC student profile pages. This is for student privacy reasons.
4. Students are expected to log-on to the system each day to check their student eMail accounts.Again, log-in to the student eMail system can be done at: https://www.smcdl.com/webmail/src/login.php
The student council supports the SMC administration in this initiative in order to reduce the confusion or misunderstanding that may result between students and professors/staff in the submitting of assignments or in communication with the administration. Please note that it is each student’s responsibility to check their SMC student email account on a timely basis for communication from either professors or staff of the SMC.
The Student Council
The SMC Working Paper Series is a free resource available to our student community and to other Universities and Institutions worldwide, where the high level of our intellectual contributions produced within our educational programs, can be made available to global communities. Since the successful launch of this initiative in 2007, a number of students have been inspired and have taken the step to publish their work.
SMC is pleased to announce that the SMC Working Paper Series is now an official publication, with its own ISSN number and registration in the Swiss National Library. The registration of the ISSN code is retroactively applicable to all issues as of November 2007.
The work of those SMC students who publish an SMC Working Paper will now be regarded as a formally recognized piece of research work.
The details are as follows:
Title: SMC Working Paper Series
ISSN 1662-761X
You can look up the source reference for yourself in the Swiss National Library. Enter “Swiss Management Center” into the quick search and the entry will appear.
Link here to the existing publications which are being registered and make up this series.
Those SMC students interested to contribute to the SMC Working Paper Series can feel free to contact Mark Esposito, Dean of Research at SMC, at the following address:
If you wish to join the SMC Linked in group you must do the following.
1. Create a profile on Linked In if you do not already have one.
2. After creating the profile, search someone who is already in the group, such as myself, Jeffrey Henderson. My public profile is located at: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreyhenderson
3. Click on the SMC group icon found in my profile and send a request to join.
4. Send an email to me at: jeffrey.henderson@student.swissmc.ch letting me know that you have sent a request to join. I wil only authorize those people who send me an email since we are receiving many request to join from none SMC people. We wish to keep this group only for SMC students and alumni.
5. You can place a Linked In button in your SMC biography by including the html that Linked In provides under the “Edit My Profile” section of your Linked In profile (there are many styles to chose from), as shown below:
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A quick announcement to mention that the Symposium plans are moving along and an official announcement will be made in July for a September date. There will be a well-know guest speaker and two days of events most likely at the new learning center in Vienna.
Hope to see you all there!
Introducing the SMC Student Council Bookstore.
As of today the student council bookstore has gone live. This bookstore will hold references to titles that the student council feels are valuable in your lessons here at SMC. Also, supplimental texts as indicated by professors for all courses will be made available through the bookstore where possible. The course texts will be populated in the store over the next month.
The store uses the Amazon.com backbone and as such includes the highest level of security as well as the best in delivery methods anywhere in the world.
You can access the store by clicking on the Bookstore tab in the SMC main portal.
The bookstore is another initiative from the Student Council along with the administration to continue our efforts at improving the environment at SMC. We hope that the bookstore proves valuable to each one of you. If you have any suggestions as to topics or specific books that you feel should be included in the bookstore please send your request to anyone of the student council members.
As some of you may be aware the SMC recently started a Working Paper Series. These papers are written by both Doctoral students and faculty in advancing research and topical items important to the Institution. The series was initiated with the posting of Julie Beardsell’s paper on global outsourcing. At present the following papers are available for download:
Issue 11/2007
The global outsourcing medley of the 21st century
by Julie Beardsell & Mark Esposito
http://www.swissmc.ch/research_library_publications/smc_working_papers_series
Students should note that submission of papers is open to all Doctoral students. Enquiries and paper suggestions should be made to Professor Esposito at m.esposito@swissmc.ch. Hope to see you all authoring soon !!!!
The Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) was founded in June, 1987, at a conference at Dartmouth College. The purpose was to create a new organization to stimulate and support research and teaching on the role of the United Nations system in international relations.
Membership in ACUNS helps to bring researchers, teachers, practitioners, and all other interested individuals together in a community of people and institutions interested in issues of international organization and global governance. The SMC is a Features institutional Member this month, Feb 2008, on the ACUNS website.
You can visit the main page at http://www.igloo.org/acunsnet
The SMC Student Council & Alumni is an approved Group on Linkedin. Also, through its council representative it is a member of The Association of MBAs. The SMC Student Council was formed specifically to provide the highest quality support for the graduate and doctoral student community. Its role is to improve the SMC experience for all students. We hope that all students will take an active role in the community.
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