Bill Pardue's NSCC Faculty Web Page

CONTACT INFORMATION AT WORK

NSCC Cookeville Campus Office: room 142

Email:  bill.pardue@nscc.edu

Phone: 931-520-0551 X 109

Fax: 931-520-0017

Work Address

Nashville State Community College - Cookeville Campus

1000 Neal Street

Cookeville, TN 38501

(My mailbox is in the administration office. Please see the secretary if you need to drop something off.)

2014 SPRING Semester Class Schedule for Bill Pardue

2014 SPRING Door Schedule  (PDF document)    2014_Spring_BillPardue_Door_Schedule.pdf

Meet Your Instructor-Bill Pardue

Advising Information

Click the following link for instuctions on how to register for NSCC courses using myNSCC:

Instructions for MY NSCC Web Registration - Cookeville.pdf

Click the following link to download one of the advising sheets for the five concentrations in the Business Management A.A.S. degree.

(OLD CATALOG) 2009- 2011 NSCC Catalog Business Management Advising Sheets
Advising Sheet - Business Mngt - BusAdminConc 2010-11.pdf
Advising Sheet - Business Mngt - MarketingConc 2010-11.pdf
Advising Sheet - Business Mngt - FinServConc 2010-11.pdf
external link to Advising Sheet- Business Mngt-EntrepConc 2010-11.pdf

link to Old Advising Sheets for NSCC-Cookeville Business AAS Programs.htm

NSCC Information on the A.S. Degree with a Business Administration Area of Emphasis (Transfer Degree)
(A.S. Degree (Tennessee Transfer Pathway) Business Administration- Advising Sheet )

NSCC Education Programs Advising Sheets
    Link to page of Advising Information for NSCC Education Programs

Interesting news links related to the courses that I teach:

Why Apple says it can't build an iPhone in the US-msnbc.com    (posted Feb 01, 2012) 

Your iPhone was built, in part, by 13 year-olds in China-msnbc.com    (posted Feb 01, 2012) 

Some of my favorite websites:

Cookeville Area - Putnam County Chamber of Commerce - List of Area Events

The Weather Guy - Weather Information LIVE from Cookeville, TN and for the Middle Tennessee area.

Calvin and Hobbes Cartoon

Dilbert Cartoon

The official U.S. time - clock

NSCC Information Technology-Course Schedule    - Follow this link to the upper right corner to search for NSCC classes by term and department.

NSCC- Cookeville Campus

NSCC Campus Directory

Hobbies:   Boy Scouts, running, sailing, piano, and outdoor activities

Interesting Quotes:

• Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. — Calvin Coolidge

• “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” -Nelson Mandela

• If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. - Theodore Roosevelt

• Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. - Winston Churchill

• The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. - Theodore Roosevelt 

• “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” - Theodore Roosevelt

• "Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other." - John F. Kennedy

• “Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

• The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.–Albert Einstein

• How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.– Annie Dillard

• In the end, the task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. - Patricia Cross (Parnell 1985)

• "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.  Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." - Margaret Mead

• Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue. -Winston Churchill

• Blessed are the children for they shall inherit the national debt. (found in a fortune cookie)

• Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

• It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.

• Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

• "How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?" The Sign of the Four, ch. 6 (1890)  Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four (Doubleday p. 111)

• It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. –Aristotle

• "Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity." -E. C. Zeeman

• For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money. -Arne Garborg, writer (1851-1924)

• “Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. ... Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore, we must be saved by the final form of love, which is forgiveness.” -Reinhold Niebuhr

• When you stop doing things for fun, you might as well be dead. -Ernest Hemingway

• “Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.” ~William James

• Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things. -Peter F. Drucker