By Wendy Robinson. Just over a year ago, I carefully labeled a moving box with the words “research- don’t lose!” and loaded it into the back of my jam-packed Subaru. As my husband buckled our two kids into their car seats, we watched as the moving truck pulled away from our now empty Iowa home. We were headed north, on to a new life in Minnesota. Read more...
04 octobre 2015
Dissertation From a Distance
Moving Abroad For Grad School: Some Things To Consider
By Natascha Chtena. Lots of people say that moving abroad to pursue a graduate (or other) degree is a mind-expanding, life-enriching and fundamentally empowering experience - and most of the time it is. Read more...
Full-Time Student to Full-Time Worker
By Lindsay Oden. Earlier this summer, I said one of my goals was to make a smooth transition between being a graduate student and being employed full-time. I was lucky enough to be offered a position as an archivist at a public, academic library, where I’ve been working for three months and putting my writing and research skills to good use every day. Read more...
Baby Daddy
By Regina Sierra Carter. Intellectual promiscuity comes at a price.
I confess: I did it. I mean... them. My husband (i.e. the PhD in education) and his little brother (i.e. the M.S. in library and information science). I stepped out on my primary program and had an academic affair with another department. Read more...
Why?
By Tracy Mitrano. Why do these young men shoot?Because they have untreated mental illness with homicidal and/or suicidal ideation, live in a society that glorifies violence, and have easy access to firearms.
Why men and not women?
For complex reasons, men tend to externalize expression of their emotions while, as a rule, women internalize them. Read more...
To Body Cam or Not, That is the Question
By Tracy Mitrano. We know too much now to keep making the same mistake of implementing technologies without doing a full legal, policy and risk assessment review first. Or do we. Read more...Cloud Computing and Research Data
By Tracy Mitrano. Almost four years ago I wrote a post entitled, “FERPA, GLBA, and HIPAA in Vendor Contracts," the theme of which was that higher education needed vendors to come to the negotiating table with those privacy and security measures in place. Read more...Has the Market Changed the Copyright Calculus?
By Tracy Mitrano. As Director of IT Policy at Cornell University and DMCA officer in years of the “Copyright Wars,” I was on the front lines. Cornell created a DMCA process (that the Higher Education Opportunity Act absorbed in its regulations as an example of compliance), we synched these events with authorities on campus (Judicial Administration; Human Resources and Provost’s Office for students non-academic and academic staff). Read more...To Twist and Weave and Untangle
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. I’m not happy with this post, but I’ve been struggling to untangle these ideas, and to twist or weave them back together in any sort of meaningful way. Sometimes I strive for beauty, other times elegance, and always coherence. Read more...Re-Reading, Re-Teaching, Realizing with Technology
By Lee Skallerup Bessette. We’ve started reading Thomas King, in my Introduction to Literature class, starting with his short story, A Seat in the Garden. It’s a story I’ve referred to before, a story I have taught on numerous occasions. Read more...
