POST COURSE DISCUSSION WITH MIDCAREER STUDENTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
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• Publication Date: November 18, 1971
• Content Type: MFR

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DD/S 71-4395
1.8 NOV 1971
SUBJECT: Post Course Discussion with Midcareer Students
On 8 November I met with the Support Directorate "students"
in the last Midcareer Course. A number of points came out.
a. The AEC presentation could have been better.
Our people seem to feel that AEC might be better represented
by a different speaker. Our students also thought that
Mr. Bostain was tops in his presentation.
b. A second point was that our students wondered
why the course itself might not be extended to compensate
in an instance such as theirs where two holidays occurred
during the course and they lost therefore two days of
information.
c. They believed the grid to be properly placed.
They pointed out that there were relatively few students in
the course who actually had supervisory responsibilities.
d. The wives reception is a real plus.
e. For specific OTR action if agreed, the students
should be better prepared for their individual presentations
and this is somethingdn which our people feel that OTR
should be insistent. They also did agree with the idea that
students might start working on their individual preparations
before the course begins while they have access to source
data in their own components. The final recommendation
would be that the individuals check out with their component
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chiefs if there is to be a presentation by such a chief to be
sure that individual presentations dovetail with the component
chief presentation.
f. They felt that the DD/S format is preferable to that
used by DD/P or DD/I. They also feel that CS was not well
represented either at the management level or the student level.
g. The OMS panel of five our people felt was too large
and that it would be better to come down to two or possible three.
J o ey
Dep4ty Director
for Support
cc: DTR
DD/S/CMO
DD/S:JWC:llc (17 November 1971)
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REMINDER for discussion
with DD/S Midcareer
Graduates on 8 November:
How did DD/S session
compare to that of DD/I
and DD/P.
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STAT
Mr. Coffey:
Re "Energy and Environment" Joseph Dinunno, AEC in Midcareer Course.
Spoke to Chief, Mid(areer Course, who is at this week
with the class--he said Mr. Dinunno's presentation:
- - was good for a first effort in the Agency
- - speaker very professional as a briefer
- - Midcareer Course wants to have him back; random
sampling of students did voice on negative side
-- little too much PR approach
-- could have pitched subject matter a bit higher for this class.
A week from this Friday, on November 5, student critiques will be in--
STAT kill advise further when he has the critiques.
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