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Communication before cell phones
Today it’s normal to just text people from around the world and have zoom chats with people in 10 different locations or talk on the phone across continents. We recently spent 3 days completely off the grid in Baja California—no phone or internet—and it was somewhat terrifying. Today at schools the teachers, students and parents →
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The pre-tech Registrar Office
March 15, 2024 Before databases and scheduling programs, getting 700-800 students and 100 faculty organized into class sections was a huge, labor-intensive task. Creating a non-conflicting schedule for all the students, teachers and rooms was one herculean task. It was and still is not fully possible. Not all students are going to be able to →
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Pre-tech days – USC
As an undergraduate at USC in LA in 1973 I was fortunate to be awarded a WorkStudy grant. This was an additional scholarship where you earned money working in some department at the college. I was assigned to the Office of Admission. The office had 6 or 7 counselors who read files and made recommendations →
Tales from the Tech Trail 