During Chris Shepherd's recent visit to northern Illinois we engaged a cadre of city management practioners in a stimulating conversation.  This conversation engendered an email from one of the participants; she shared the following item which she thought was "on point."  I would agree and therefore direct your attention to: http://nextgenerationconsulting.com/library/blog-post/Mixing-an-economic....

Paul Crawford

Dear Colleagues.

It is our pleasure and with pride that we present the framework of Compass, an educational philosophy and measurement format. The aim of Compass is to engineer the talents of our students in the most efficient and effect way. Students will be educated so that they are competence-ready for working-life. The match between the requirements of working-life and the talents of the students will be optimal.

https://sites.google.com/site/hrecompass/

Please feel free to comment on this concept.

Northern Illinois University, in its role as the North American PASCAL Center, is co-sponsoring the 2011 TRE Roundtable & annual meeting in Washington, DC (December 5-7, 2011).  The TRE Roundtable theme is "Accelerating Regional Solutions: Finding Unique Pathways to American Prosperity."

On the face of it, involvement with the dissemination of a leading-edge computer science project would seem to be outside of PASCAL's remit.  What have "semantic search" and "natural languague processing" got to do with the social sciences? This is exactly the question we asked ourselves when invited by our colleagues from the Puglia Region to get involved in the Natural Browsing project.