Where does the student affairs educator work?

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PLEASE PLAN AHEAD. Identify a student affairs educator in a functional area of interest whom you can interview. Please pick a functional area in which you have no experience. For example, if you have been a Resident Assistant (RA), you cannot interview someone in housing. The individual selected must be employed FULL-TIME at MSU or another college/university. The purpose of this assignment is to help you connect with an educator who may bring different perspectives and experiences to your understanding of the field of student affairs. The interview will culminate in a written report (NOT a transcript) of 12001500 words. Consider asking permission to audiotape the conversation to make report writing easier.

You must first create your interview protocol with at least 10 questions. Note that while you enter the interview with a set list of questions, you may ask additional questions based on the conversation and what the student affairs educator shares with you. Your interview protocol must be submitted as an appendix to your final report but does not count toward the required 12001500 words. Consider the readings you have done as you draft your questions. Sample questions include:

What was your journey to student affairs and your current position?
What values guide your work in student affairs?
What challenges do you face in your work and how do you address them?

The Interview Report should include:

Introduction to the student affairs educator you interview
Who are they? What was their path to becoming a student affairs educator?
Description of the functional area in which the student affairs educator works
What is their current position? What are their responsibilities? What are some current issues in this functional area?
Summary of the interview: not a transcript, rather, an account of the main ideas from the interview
Organize this section into 3 to 4 main themes learned.
Reflection of how what you have learned has informed your understanding of student affairs
Claims and arguments using relevant literature and sources from this course and beyond
Interview questions as appendix

2050: Food energy and gender

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Write a research paper that address all those 3 issues: 2050: Food enegery and gender and should be plagiarism free.

Purpose of Assignment:
Demonstrates an understanding and appreciation of the aims of the assessment, the questions or issues it seeks to address, and the global context generally. An excellent report might also reference the course content, core and recommended readings or complimentary materials.

Content, Research and Sources
The quality, validity and reliability of materials, research and sources used for the arguments, views or facts as presented. An excellent report should demonstrate high critical literacy.

Presentation Quality
How clear, concise, professional and creative or innovative is the actual presentation and report. Criteria applies to all forms i.e. written, visual, audio, kinesthetic etc. An excellent report should be thoroughly well-planned and executed, abide by best practices for communication, carefully consider the reader or listener and/or use creativity or professionalism to great effect.

Overall cogency of argument, views, findings
How informed, rational or persuasive is the report or presentations overall position and/or findings including evidence of critical, creative or reflective thinking. An excellent report should omit no key issues or questions, nor make unwarranted assumptions.

Concepts in Business Logistics

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The research paper should be based on a topic discussed in the readings (books, articles) or videos. The requirements of this paper include a cover sheet (course title and name, paper title, student name, and student ID), abstract, 5-8 numbered pages of text, and a reference page. The research paper requires at least five references.

Course Syllabus: Business Logistics is the set of activities involved in the    flow    of materials and products through an organization and through the    supply chain to the market. This course examines and    applies management tools and principles to these supply and distribution problems. Emphasis is first placed on developing a broad overview of the logistics    field: what are    its principal activities, decisions and how these activities    produce value    by supplying customer service through order fulfillment. Inter-functional coordination is reviewed by examining how logistics are coordinated or integrated with    marketing and    corporate    strategy.    Next, a thorough grounding in concepts, alternatives and tools for the primary activities of logistics: inventory, transportation, warehousing and order    processing are presented.This provides    the basis    for examining    issues in    logistics system design, including stock location, sourcing, number and location of facilities and flow management.   

Writing Assignment for Business Ethics

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Using the case study on “Dining In,” and your knowledge of our three Philosophers, Aristotle, Mill, and Kant, choose one philosopher who would agree with the solution or one who disagrees.  Make a clear and precise claim for the philosopher and then using their theory, provide evidence for what they would say.  Make sure to include opposition as well as a rebuttal.  Make sure to include the following for this assignment;
   
1.  Claim for your philosopher.
   
2.  Evidence, this is where you show me that you understand a particular philosopher’s theory and you know how to apply it.  
   
3.  Opposition, this could come from one of the other philosophers or something you have thought about in terms of where someone might find a weakness in one or more of your reasons.
   
4.  Rebuttal, make sure to then show why your opposition is wrong and that your evidence is more plausible.  
   
Length and format are not as important as the argument you are making.  If you use a source cite it.  Be creative and have fun but do make sure your argument is plausible. 
   

Here are some tips to write the paper.   Some tips for you prior to you turning them in that might help you.  In looking at papers over the years these are some of the most common mistakes I see in these papers.  I will list them below.
1. Most lack a clear and precise claim.  I need to know what you will argue for their chosen philosopher and I would prefer it is in the first person.  Students often tell me a philosopher would claim “x” but have nothing from the theory that helps me to see how that is the case. 
2. Because they lack a clear claim, they might have evidence but it is hard to see how it supports the claim.  
3. Transitions are extremely choppy and I think this is due to a lack of clarity as well as students trying to write for academia rather than just telling me in their own words.  I often tell students to write this as if they were explaining it to a fifth-grader.  Writing for philosophy is quite different from English in that we just want to know very clearly what the philosopher would say and why he would say it.  First-person often helps you to do this. 
4. When students write about the opposition it tends to be to the claim rather than one piece of evidence or reason. I would like to see you show me which piece of evidence someone might find fault with and then show how that can be revised or how the opposition might be incorrect about that. For example, think about arguments you get into with people. Let’s say that you believe the world is round and you happen to find yourself at a flat earth conference. Of course, you both disagree on the shape of the earth, but to make the case for why the earth is round you need to provide evidence or reasons why it is not flat. Otherwise, it is going to be a shouting match of round versus flat and the argument will never be resolved. formatting,Doesnt really matter.  If you use a source, cite it.  Other than that, feel free to be creative.  I hope that helps.
I have attached the case study on the files tab.