The authors, Mitchell Conover of the University of Richmond, Gerald Jensen of Northern Illinois University, Robert Johnson of the CFA Institute and Jeffrey Mercer of Texas Tech University, studied data from December 1970 through August 2007.

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Clancy advises students to try to work with a school that has a partnership with Cisco, like Northern Illinois University or College of DuPage.

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