Elinor Ostrom Econ 490 fall 2017

      On campus, there are two African Organizations, African Cultural Association (ACA) and African Student Organization (ASO). Using one of the six assumptions of the structural grid to differentiate them, one can clearly identify that they both have opposite established goals and objectives, and they use different devise strategies to reach their goals. ACA focuses more on creating cultural shows to appreciate the different African countries and their cultures. They host many social events that brings students from other school to participate. In fact, they are known as the "Cool African RSO", and this tends to draw many freshman's to join the club. In a nutshell, ACA's main goal is to bring Africans at the U of I together and establish a unified bond of friendship. On the other hand, ASO focuses on encouraging the participation of African students in various university activities beneficial to the organization, as well as their academic life. ASO hosts many confer...

    Professionalism! That's my word for the week. I am sure that I have used this word almost everyday this week. Maybe it is because of the business career fair, and I am thinking of my career status by May when I graduate, or just because I can't stand people that don't act in a professional way. I would explain what I mean by "act in a professional way".    So for one of my Econ classes last semester, my professor assigned five of us to a group. We had to research an NGO or a social enterprise, and evaluate a particular intervention that the NGO implements. We had to determine what their approach was by identifying what we like and dislike about it. After this, we had to create a strategy to improve it assuming we were assigned to design an evaluation of the program, and specifically explain whether we find it convincing enough to support or not. Lastly, we had to make a 5-8 minutes presentation to the whole class. At first, everyone in the group seemed ene...

       Community colleges are rather smaller than four years university. Not only does small mean the size of the building, but also the number of students, staff and faculty. One of the goal of Community colleges is for students to get an associate degree, then transfer to a four-year college or get a job. To this effect, Harold Washington College organizational structure differs from the traditional college we are all used to. There are no college deans because there are no colleges such as College of Business or College of LAS. There are a couple of deans like the dean of student services, dean of online learning, and academic dean. There are mostly department heads, and these people work hand-in hand with the academic dean to provide the best learning experiences for the student. They also have associate deans that are assigned to different tasks. For example, In the admission department, the associate dean of student services does most of the work. She is res...

  Elinor Ostrom, popularly known as a political economist was born in Los Angeles CA in August 1933, and passed away June 2012 in Indiana Bloomington. After completing her bachelors degree in political science at UCLA, she proceeded to complete her PHD in the same field. She spent most of her life at the political science department in Indiana University, Bloomington where she started off as a visiting professor in 1965, then finally because the department chair in 1980. In 2009, she was awarded a noble prize for " her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons". Her research focused on proving the importance of the commons around the world, as it answers the popular theories that proves the tragedy of the commons". Part of her work was establishing eight principles for how commons can be governed sustainably and equitably in a community. Till date, she remains the first and only woman to win the noble prize in...

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