Training Managers for 21st Century Fisheries
 Overview of Current Training Programs and Courses for Fisheries Managers

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Interesting Methods/Learning Models for teaching decision-making and leadership -  examples from Business and Public Administration programs

Capstone project

  • Cornell University - Johnson Graduate School of Management - "All top business schools today are looking for leaders. This is so important to us at Cornell's Johnson School that we now offer two-year, full-tuition MBA fellowships for up to thirty people who have outstanding potential." This is called the...
    • *Park Leadership Fellowship  - Leadership Development Program curriculum  
      • capstone is The Service Leadership Project -- Park fellows are expected to initiate, manage, and complete projects that will contribute to a meaningful, permanent change in the Johnson School, Cornell, or Ithaca communities. Participants may receive academic credit for these projects. The projects serve as a capstone for the Johnson School experience by providing Fellows with an opportunity to practice leadership skills, integrate the lessons learned across diverse disciplines, and develop and enduring sense of personal contribution to the world. (the curriculum might be a good example for an international leadership program for fisheries managers...ie. learning to be leaders through experience.)
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Case studies (also see case study resources below)

  • *Harvard MBA - Learning Model using the Case Method approach - The primary form of instruction at Harvard, the case method presents the greatest challenges confronting leading companies today—complete with the constraints and incomplete information found in a real business situation—and places the student in the role of the decision maker;  see how the case method works  (consider writing a fisheries management related case study for use with MBA programs?)

Business/Public Admin. doing Joint work with practitioners

  • Kelley School of Business, Indiana University - use of Academies: An academy is an interactive combination of high-level course work and senior-level practitioners. It provides a window into a sector’s key technologies, trends, dynamics, and trade-offs. Academies are an optional but intense opportunity. You’ll be exposed to a sector in the first year (a prerequisite for further membership), undertake an internship or project-based work during the summer, and take a credit and a half to three credits of course work in the second year. Each academy features joint activities with the senior practitioners on its advisory board.  ....faculty also use environmental cases in curriculum?

  • Loyola Marymount/MBA Program - Comparative Mangement Systems: As the culminating integrative learning experience, Comparative Management Systems provides a focused opportunity for students to gain first-hand exposure to global management concepts and practices. For those students who have selected an international track and have chosen courses from a variety of global business electives, CMS also leads to the Certificate in International Business.

  • *Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government -  Master in Public Policy - Capstone: Policy Analysis Exercise
    In the second year, all students engage in the Policy Analysis Exercise (PAE), in which they examine an existing public or nonprofit sector problem presented by a client organization and develop a recommendation that the client can implement. The PAE, which can be carried out individually or in small groups, culminates in a 40-page paper. Many MPP graduates point to the PAE as one of the true highlights of their Kennedy School education. They work with a real-world client but under the close supervision of faculty advisors with expertise in the topic area. Students frequently experience the satisfaction of seeing their recommendations implemented by the client organization. Visit the PAE Home page.

 

Multinational/Global programs - examples 

Virtual University/Distance

  • Inter North Sea University (I-Sea-U)
    • The  overall objective  of the  Inter North  Sea  University (I-Sea-U) pilot  project is to  establish and  operate an  actual and  a virtual network of  (university) colleges in  the North Sea Region.  This will enhance  knowledge and  awareness  about the  North  Sea regional  and social   cohesion, resources   conservation  and   development,  thus supporting a  spatial development  oriented trajectory to  the Virtual Universities for Europe; currently 4 universities participate
  • ICDL - International Centre for Distance Learning at the Open University, UK - databases with links to distance learning courses and programs.\

International training coordination centers

International level networking

Academic efforts to provide international opportunities

  • Loyola Marymount/MBA Program - Comparative Mangement Systems: As the culminating integrative learning experience, Comparative Management Systems provides a focused opportunity for students to gain first-hand exposure to global management concepts and practices. For those students who have selected an international track and have chosen courses from a variety of global business electives, CMS also leads to the Certificate in International Business.
  • *Kellogg Graduate School of Management - Global Initiatives in Management program - offers students an opportunity to learn about business conditions in foreign countries.  This program is intended for all students, not just those majoring in international business.  The program began in 1990 with one class of 34 students studying Russia; in 2001, there are 11 courses enrolling approximately 350 students, studying 14 countries. Designed by students with the help of a faculty adviser, these courses include 10 weeks of rigorous classroom instruction followed by a two-week research trip to the chosen country. While in their host country, students meet with high-level government officials and executives. Past projects have included the privitization of banking in Central Europe, emerging market strategies for the telecommunications sector in China and a possible Olympic bid by South Africa.
  • Stockholm University - International Graduate Programme

Examples of Institutes/Funding mechanisms for support of academic curriculum and research in resource management

Case Study Resources

  • *National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science - ALTHOUGH the case method has been used for years to teach law, business, and medicine, it is not common in science. Yet the use of case studies holds great promise as a pedagogical technique for teaching science, particularly to undergraduates, because it humanizes science and well illustrates scientific methodology and values. It develops students' skills in group learning, speaking, and critical thinking, and since many of the best cases are based on contemporary--and often contentious--science problems that students encounter in the news (such as human cloning), the use of cases in the classroom makes science relevant. - Also see: Other Web Case sites which includes links to business school case studies and to The Clearinghouse for Decision Case Education Agriculture, Food, Natural Resources and the Environment (no fish examples) 
  •   *COLIS (European Case Clearinghouse) allows for a search of all business schools offering case studies provides approximately 15-20 "fish" related business case studies, includes cases from several top business schools including Harvard, Richard Ivey School of Business, etc.  Cases must be purchased but you can review an inspection copy if available.  To see samples, click on COLIS logo - search on top button bar, type "fish" into key word search, this yields about 20 cases, most oriented toward marketing food products, however, there is one marine council/stakeholder case. 
  • US Shellfisheries: A Tragedy of the Commons? - website focused on this question; includes discussion forum
  • National Fisheries Conservation Center - provides forums on specific fisheries management topics; forums include issue overview, points of view, dialogue center; topics currently available are: industry restructuring, marine reserves, and cooperative studies
  • INTERNET GUIDE TO INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES LAW. This Guide is the largest collection of free information on international fisheries law and related subjects on the web. Includes Compendium of Fisheries Cases (which has approximately 12 international legal cases)