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Bridging the Gap between Academia and Business
For more than 25 years, SAS has partnered with colleges and universities around the world to provide students,
faculty and staff with the skills and knowledge they need to become tomorrow's leaders.
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SAS offers Free Trainer Kits to universities incorporating SAS into curriculum. SAS Trainer Packs consist of
slides, notes, exercises and data for SAS Courses. Interested parties should contact academic@oz.sas.com
for further information and application details.
The Kit covers a comprehensive range of SAS courses in the following subject areas:
- Statistics
- Data Mining / Text Mining
- Programming
- SAS Enterprise Guide
- Reporting and Graphics
- Applications & Web Development
- Performance Management/li>
- Customer Relationship Management
- Human Resources Management
- Supplier Relationship Management
- SAS®9
We recognise that lecturers often have trouble obtaining data sets that are suitable for teaching specific concepts
in statistics. To assist in that area, SAS has assembled a library of SAS data sets. After providing a minimal amount of identification
information, visitors will be able to download any of a number of data sets from the
Data Set Library. The library contains an index data set to help you ascertain the size of each data set and some types of analysis
that might be appropriate for that data. In addition, a text file is included with each individual data set to give some background about
the data and recommendations for analysis discussions.
SAS offers free getting started tutorials for a number of SAS products. See
http://www.sas.com/apps/elearning/elearning_courses.jsp?cat=Free+Tutorials
for more information.
Solutions from SAS are used at more than 37,000 business, government and university sites around the world.
Customers include 98 of the top 100 companies on the Fortune 500, and 90% of the Fortune 500 overall. SAS can provide links to
industry to provide relevant projects and guest lecturers. We can also facilitate a work placement program for students who have been
exposed to SAS at university to work at SAS customer sites to gain valuable industry experience and employment opportunities.
Students
SAS users at all levels, from novice to advanced, will appreciate this inexpensive, intuitive and easy-to-use personal learning
version of SAS. Explore the power of SAS by using the SAS Enterprise Guide point-and-click interface or by writing and modifying SAS code
through the SAS Program Editor. With SAS Learning Edition, you are provided a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience and learn
how SAS gives you the power to perform-all on a low-cost, single CD-ROM. Further information is available from:
http://support.sas.com/rnd/le/index.html
If you have learnt SAS in an academic environment, you are eligible to participate in the SAS Work Placement Program. This
involves the opportunity to gain valuable experience putting your theoretical studies into practice utilising SAS at a SAS Customer
site. The duration of the placements is generally 6-8 weeks and is usually unpaid. The Work Placement Program has been running for the
past four years and around 25% of students involved are offered further paid employment. Further information can be found
here.
FREE SAS® Licence for final year thesis use
If you are preparing to write your Final Thesis you may licence any SAS software that you require, free of charge. You will be required
to provide details of your university, faculty, research supervisor and your proposed research topic. Further information and
application can be found here.
Five students will earn the opportunity to present their research projects at SAS Forum International. The student ambassadors will
meet with business leaders and specialists from every industry and sector, as well as SAS experts to discuss real business challenges
and solutions. During the past four years, the student presentations have proven to be extremely popular with SAS customers. Moreover,
because SAS skills are in demand and past participants presented complex research topics in a very professional way, many student
ambassadors even received job offers as a result of attending.
If you:
- Are in the process of writing a final thesis or PhD in which SAS plays a major role
- Think your business relevant research project should be shared with an international audience
- Feel confident in presenting to an international business audience in English
- Would like to use SAS Forum International to meet potential employers
In the “additional comments” field (under step 4 of the online application) please provide us with:
- Cover letter: Please explain why you should be selected as 1 of 5 student Ambassadors.
- Essay: The following questions should be answered in your essay:
- When will you finish your degree?
- How did you first encounter SAS?
- Which SAS technologies are you currently using in your research?
- Why do you use SAS, rather than another type of software?
- What do you know about SAS Forum International?
- Why is SAS Forum International of interest to you?
All students under the Fellowship Program are eligible to become a Student Ambassador
Applications and requests for additional information should be sent
to academic@oz.sas.com
Demand for SAS skilled graduates is very high in Australia and New Zealand. If you would like to be advised of open positions at SAS
customer sites, please email academic@oz.sas.com with "Job Register" as the subject line.
A postgraduate research scholarship is available in the Department of Computing at Macquarie University, Sydney. The title of the
project is Data Mining and Constraint Satisfaction in aid of Decision Support Systems. This project will investigate ways to
incorporate data mining and knowledge discovery techniques in decision support systems.
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Free Tutorials that provide conceptual overviews and step-by-step instructions on how to perform common tasks using the product interface.
Free Tutorials can be found:
http://www.sas.com/apps/elearning/elearning_courses.jsp?cat=Free+Tutorials
SAS offers academic staff and students the opportunity to install SAS Software on home PC's and laptops. This is available to the
university at no extra charge. Contact your software administrator or academic@oz.sas.com to
find out if your university has home use licensed.
SAS has a wide library of helpful publications that will help you:
SAS schedules a regular programme of highly regarded courses. See course details on
www.sas.com/australia/training
A 60% discount is offered for attendance at a publicly scheduled course for academic staff and students.
Subscribing to free e-newsletters is a convenient way of receiving information. There are several that may be helpful:
Global Teaching Newsletter
Learn more about teacher and student initiatives at universities around the globe
Tailored specifically for professors and students at academic institutions worldwide, this quarterly e-newsletter provides an
informative and interesting focus on the ways in which universities are successfully partnering with SAS.
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Global Business School Newsletter
Share knowledge and ideas on business school activities and partnerships on a global level
Tailored specifically to meet the needs of our business school customers, this quarterly e-newsletter provides informative and
interesting news about the latest happenings and partnerships in the business school arena.
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We offer an Academic Awareness Program to enable users to get up and running with SAS Software quickly and
easily. This program is run onsite at the University and is open to all faculty, staff and students.
The SAS Academic Awareness program consists of a series of technical sessions around
licensed products to run regularly in an effort to increase SAS awareness and the number of SAS users at the University.
An introduction to the SAS Academic Program and Enterprise Guide will be automatically scheduled and you
have the option of requesting further sessions depending on the subject area you are interested in and the products you have
licensed.
Send an email to
academic@oz.sas.com to register for this program. You will be contacted to discuss timing and suitable sessions.
The SAS Academic Club has been established for Academics, Students, University staff and other interested parties. Educational discounts
on software, course bookings at SAS, and publications are applicable only for Academic Club members. Join Here
Join the online SAS user group through Yahoo. This online forum is intended to be for Australian academics, by Australian academics.
Register here
Links of Interest
FASTats: Frequently Asked-for Statistics
http://support.sas.com/techsup/faq/stat_key/a_j.html
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