Sunday, February 23, 2014

TOSP awardees who were/are Entrep Students

There must be at least 6 entrep students who were TOSP Ten Outstanding Students of the Philippines awardees:

1.  Elma Arboleras  (from MM)

2.  Bong Canlas (from Clark)

3.  George Parilla (from Cebu

4.  Dr. Jopet Syquia at MBAH

5  Gedwin (Spentrep)

6.  Dr Rio Abrenica (now works with Abbott) at MBAH

God bless them and may they do well to be further outstanding especially in Nation Building

MBA Regis Clark Entrep Class last February 21, 2014

Rizal, Philippines   |  Februaary 23, 2014

                          Prof Jorge awards a gift t the winning debaters/group - entrepreneurs are made

I was so glad to have traveled/commuted to be with a group of very enthusiastic and very bright students from AGSB Clark last Friday.

We continued discussion on who they are and I annotated their discussion of life history with the connection of their life with entrepreneurship. A new class member came:  Christine Tubig whom I learned is an executive officer of a family owned real estate business in Floridablanca.  Their PTM are OFW and their packages are in the P1.2 to 2 million price range.   I hope the OFW boom continues.

Our main activity was the group creative activity - ie presentation of crimes.  Committing  crime calls for high level of creative thinking, problem solving, anticipation of problems, exit strategy (in case you get caught) or even how to distribute, fence, launder the loot.  Legitimate business can  not afford not to benchmark copy the criminals hatch a crime.  And also, people, I am amazed, really get out of the box when they plan a crime, and could be dangerous.  The crimes presented were:   Philhealth scam (on eye operation)  black mail, and betting on sports (basketball)  The betting on basketball exposed the dark side of sports which is the more lucrative part:   betting.   Football, and other sports have joined the dark side.

Thus the joke on Disney left.. (If you did not get it, you must have a slow IQ or that the joke is reserved for geniuses)


What is plagiarism? Did a group of students commit plagiarism?

Rizal Philippines  | February 23, 2014



#plagiarism, #profjorgeentrep, #originality, #attribution, #credits, #wikepedia

From Writing Center of University of North Carolina hand out

I learned of a very difficult predicament students in one in a distant location. Their integrity as individuals:  students, businessman are under fire on account of an alleged  serious academic malfeasance.  It is a very serious allegation/offense, and may mean end of their academic career as students They were (at least 4 of them) were alleged to have committed plagiarism) and the issue has reached the higher ups of the school.  The professsor has informed the dean of the alleged mischief.

Just what is plagiarism?

According the UNC hand out, "it is “the deliberate or reckless representation of another’s words, thoughts, or ideas as one’s own without attribution in connection with submission of academic work, whether graded or otherwise.”  Thus attribution is an important action on the part of the student, or a part of the paper that removes plagiarism from a quoted text, sentence or paragraph.  I saw in the students' paper that proper attribution:  footnotes, bibliography were made.