College‐Corporate Cooperation: A Compelling Emerging Need
Competitive, technological and demographic imperatives are combining to dramatically change the nature of tomorrow’s workplace, and the needs of workers and managers comprising this workplace. To a significant extent, meeting the challenge of this change will involve educating and reeducating people, and will mandate a much higher degree of cooperation between academic and corporate education establishments. To achieve this cooperation, differences in perceptions, policies, and practices which have traditionally militated against cooperation among higher and corporate education establishments must be addressed, and strategic planning initiatives undertaken to develop cooperative programs and formats that best meet corporate education needs.
Leadership through quality
Initially, we dismissed the Japanese by telling ourselves that they were catering to low-volume users, a market segment of only marginal interest to us. We had always been successful, and we assumed that we would continue to be successful. Then we discovered that they were cutting into our market share by selling better, more reliable copiers at prices approximating our cost for producing comparable products.
Mississippian Barnett Shale: Lithofacies and depositional setting of a deep-water shale-gas succession in the Fort Worth Basin, Texas
The Mississippian Barnett Formation of the Fort Worth Basin is a classic shale-gas system in which the rock is the source, reservoir, and seal. Barnett strata were deposited in a deeper water foreland basin that had poor circulation with the open ocean. For most of the basin's history, bottom waters were euxinic, preserving organic matter and, thus, creating a rich source rock, along with abundant framboidal pyrite. The Barnett interval comprises a variety of facies but is dominated by fine-grained (clay- to silt-size) particles. Three general lithofacies are recognized on the basis of mineralogy, fabric, biota, and texture: (1) laminated siliceous mudstone; (2) laminated argillaceous lime mudstone (marl); and (3) skeletal, argillaceous lime packstone. Each facies contains abundant pyrite and phosphate (apatite), which are especially common at hardgrounds. Carbonate concretions, a product of early diagenesis, are also common. The entire Barnett biota is composed of debris transported to the basin from the shelf or upper oxygenated slope by hemipelagic mud plumes, dilute turbidites, and debris flows. Biogenic sediment was also sourced from the shallower, better oxygenated water column. Barnett deposition is estimated to have occurred over a 25-m.y. period, and despite the variations in sublithofacies, sedimentation style remained remarkably similar throughout this span of time.