Education - Soviet Style
  Nurgul Kinderbaeva and Linda Serra Hagedorn

The nature of the Soviet educational system has developed in accordance with the Soviet Union's 70-year history with its ideology formerly centered on communist party doctrine. The system of Soviet Education has passed through many changes and reforms. This is a broad topic demanding political and ideological perspectives.

The purpose of this article is to provide a glimpse of the system of education in the former Soviet Union so that American educators, administrators, and policy makers will better understand the background of the students that are coming from this part of the world to receive American diplomas.   The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 brought many changes including to education and brought new opportunities for students to study abroad.  Since 1991, many Soviet students have come to study in America and are participating in student and faculty exchange programs.  This new phenomenon presents the American postsecondary educational system with new students who may bring unique perspectives and backgrounds to their new educational environments.   full text

Editors' Note:
  Phil Brocato

Fukuda's Chalkboard

Student Essay:
  Dean Campbell

This paper presents an application of sustainable growth modeling presented by Van Horne. Van Horne (1998) has defined sustainable growth rate (SGR) as "...the maximum annual percentage increase in sales that can be achieved based on target operating, debt, and dividend-payout ratios" (p. 744).

Harley-Davidson, in a recent magazine review stated that, given the significant and unexpected increases in sales over the last few quarters, they plan to ship 200,000 motorcycles in the year 2003.It is not apparent through the financial data provided to understand the reasoning behind Harley-Davidson's  strategy to ship 200,000 motorcycles by the year 2003 when they have the potential to grow their sales to match their operating efficiencies.   full text

Student Essay:
  Vince Lechuga

Student Essay:
  Tina Miller

"Now, Women are Men, Right?"
  Melissa Sances

I had always been struck by his way of asking so many questions with the same word. Nothing he said was really a question, until he got to the end. To the right. That was it; that was the question. But it wasn't really a question, because he said it as though he already knew he was right; naturally, then, if we had to think about the answer at all, we were most certainly wrong. It was like playing a board game with a two year old who believes that there is only one set of rules for her game; there is no swaying, no reasoning. There is only submitting. Right?  full text