Today's super-duper Pentium processor with MMX technology will become tomorrow's IBM 386, and the specialized knowledge required to design, build, produce, market and use it will fast become obsolete. Business has responded by getting into the learning business. Missoula are committed to excellence in innovative experiential learning and professional growth through research and service. The first draft of the school's new mission statement was two pages long. It was whittled down by the school's thirty-five faculty members in a process that included focus groups of business leaders.
Schools teach education more than they teach learning.
No more can students simply master a certain subject, then go out and practice that mastery in the workplace. Now they must spend their entire lives in the interstitial fluid of learning, swimming up the river of knowledge toward wisdom and, with luck, higher income. Paul Larson, professor of management and director of UM's Small Business Institute, is all for the changes. Larson's students work with established or start-up businesses, writing business plans, improving efficiency and suggesting new business techniques. Assistant Professor Tom Ottaway, on the other hand, watches the new developments cautiously.