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Lawmakers have moved to scale back tuition benefits once lauded as some of the nations most generous to veterans, saying they proved far more popular and costly than expected. The state Legislatures budget committee voted 16-0 last week to approve changes to the benefits, including eliminating a promise of free graduate school tuition for veterans and setting a limit on how much time they would have to apply. The changes would take effect if approved by the entire legislature and Gov. Jim Doyle, who will consider them as part of his budget this summer. They would leave the program underfunded

It may be good for the landlord business relating to the devolution of back-office operations overseas, but it is good for workers? Supporters of the strategy off-shore to say yes. Contact Centers and transaction processing in countries such as India and Mexico, quality jobs in poor countries, they talk, and added that the United States collaborators, the work finally find lost more jobs in May qualified. Critical, but not to buy the version of globalization. You say that workers in the Third World can be used in the United States and specialized accountants and call centre employees are in no

Employers plan to boost the number of new MBAs they hire in 2007 and are reporting less interest in people with only an undergraduate education, new research from the Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®) shows. Corporate recruiters expect to hire an average of 18 percent more workers with MBAs and other graduate business degrees this year than they did in 2006, according to the 2007 GMAC Corporate Recruiters Survey. This increase follows the 18 percent jump in MBA hiring recruiters projected in last years survey. The survey also found that employers plan to increase the number of jobs for people

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Business students learn the lesson of giving back The inaugural class of the University of Floridas new South Florida-based master of business administration program worked to make the grade in more ways than one. Before the students walked away with their diplomas, they made sure to leave something behind for the community they trained in. If you are just looking out for yourselves, its not going to make a good neighborhood, student Michelle Gold said. Throughout the year, Gold and her 39 fellow students took part in six charity projects. They were the first graduates of the 24-month Professional MBA program offered at the

MBA Hopefuls Invited to UCRs Graduate School of Management If youve ever wondered what it takes to get a Master of Business Administration degree, now is the time to attend a free, informational session at the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management at UC Riverside on Saturday, May 6 from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Faculty and staff members will give presentations about the admissions process, the requirements for entering the MBA program and an overview of the schools career services in Room 118 of Anderson Hall South, home of the old Citrus Experiment Station. The schedule is as follows:

Back to school: Fight Promoter U The first thing students at the Fight Promoter University are told to do is check their egos at the door. They also might want to check to see if they still have their wallets and watches. After all, this is boxing. Turns out, though, there are no classes on how to steal from fighters. No lessons on how to cheat at weigh-ins or sneak illegal substances into the corner, either. OK, so that seminar on the proper way to escort a ring-card girl into the ring does sound interesting. More : twincities.com

IT back on the MBA agenda When the dotcom bubble burst in 2000 it was not just budding entrepreneurs and investors who had their fingers burnt. Business school professors who had pinned their hopes on teaching e-commerce and information technology courses also felt the pain. These days, though, it would seem that IT is increasingly creeping back on to the agenda in US business schools. A recent survey by two professors at the Stern School of Business at New York University revealed that 43 out of 45 US business school deans interviewed believed that it was critical for executives of the future

Hes got the guts to come back to his hometown If you happen to know Tom Stephenson of Verge Fund, a venture capital deal that was just named a Top 100 Venture Capital Firm for Entrepreneurs in Entrepreneur magazine, then you know there was a whole lotta shakin going on before the accolade came. I like Tom a bunch. I like his story even better because theres something rather Albuquerque in it thats instructive for all of us. First, lets revisit a theme that knows no end for me: risk taking. The Tom Stephensons of this state in the game of

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