Professor Jennifer McStotts’ Blog

All grades and comments are now posted. I double checked and all files seem to be in place and openable. As I said before, if you got an A+ or did a PDF, or if I said in the comments box that I had no comments on the document, then you did not and will not get a file back.
If after the thesis crunch is over, anyone would like to come see me about patching any holes in these projects to use them in portfolios, come see me not next week but the week after.
Great work!

Tags: grading

All,
Grades are posted (so as to end the suspense), but the comments are not all returned. Some of your files are so large (upwards of 100MB) that I cannot upload the commented versions back to you from home or wireless. I will finish the uploads as soon as I can establish a secure and stable enough connection. If you did a PDF or PPT, there are no comments to be returned besides those in the grade post. The same is true for the four of you who got A+ grades.
I’ll post again when the grades are completed.
Prof. McS

Tags: grading

Advising first, then Pres Law, then Urban Planning

If you need to see me for advising, go to http://profmcs.wikispaces.com/Advising to sign up.

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URBAN:

On the current and local events front: “Midtown” Unveiled; project aims to spur transformation of Upper King Street.

The Midtown project will be presented to the Charleston Board of Architectural Review in a special meeting at 4:30 p.m. March 3 in the fourth-floor meeting room at 75 Calhoun St. I know it’s Spring Break, but maybe I’ll see some of you there. (For more information, you can see a city planning document with some great graphics at http://www.charleston.net/midtown/.)

For my urban planning students – does anything about this project make you think of Jane Jacobs? Robert Moses? Cataclysmic money even?

Tags: Charleston

This will probably be the last PLE specific post for a couple weeks. I’ve just finished posting all of the following on WebCT:

1. The readings for Monday (the studies), Wednesday (easements), and the week after spring break (charity). The last is a link to a large PDF file – let me know if there’s any confusion.
2. A link to an optional reading under FYI with more details about the legal responsibilities of nonprofit organizations. I thought this might be helpful for those of you thinking about writing on NPOs.
3. Another pro forma PDF – this one with the example we’re walking through in class. I don’t send the excel file because it has all the equations pre-coded. If there’s interest in walking through how to use Excel to do that, let me know. It’d only take a couple minutes to explain.
4. Last but not least, an assignment where you can turn in your preliminary work for your rehab projects that’s due next Wednesday. Given that there are 7 undergrads and 11 grads, at least one group will be mixed, so get to know your neighbor on Monday if you don’t have a partner yet.

There won’t be a PowerPoint Monday, but there will on Wednesday.
See you next week!

Tags: ClassInfo, WebCT

All,
The readings – IRC sections and Recapture brief – are available on WebCT. Don’t forget to also read Boyle. I posted a couple other tax credit related links and PDFs under FYI for those of you who want or need to know more, especially for those struggling with the material or hoping to write a paper on the topic.
There will be a PowerPoint, but it won’t be up until tomorrow. See you then!

PS I’ve been told that at least one of you is complaining that I made no comments on your document, just highlighted words and phrases. It sounds like you don’t have comments turned on, because I would NEVER return a paper without comments. Look at the tutorial in WebCT under Tech Tips and if there’s still nothing, email me.