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Welcome to the Ph.D. News Webpage. This Webpage site contains items of interest to iSchool Ph.D. students at University of Texas at Austin.
Announcement On January 15, Belinda Boon won the Best Student Poster Prize at ALISE her poster having been selected from 92 doctoral student submissions by a panel of judges. Hooray for Belinda! She will have the poster in SZB 556 for a while if you would like to see it. Be sure to give her a pat on the back when you see her. Here is a picture of her with Dean Dillon--notice the winning smile.
This Weeks Events ADDITION. Monday, Feb 7 1:30-2:00
PM , and Tuesday, Feb 8, 11:30
AM-12:30 AM, SZB 556, Cal
Lee, Ph.D. Student Discussions. Mr. Christopher "Cal" Lee, doctoral
candidate at the University of Michigan specializing in management
of digital and electronic records, will be visiting our school on an
interview trip for a position on our faculty. Here is the url
for his web site: http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~calz/ . Monday, Feb 7, 4-6 PM, SZB 468, iForum, Cal Lee, Defining Digital Preservation Work: A Case Study in Standards Development. Mr. Lee is from the University of Michigan and is an iSchool faculty job candidate. For further information please contact Dr. Randolph Bias, iForum Committee Chair, via email or phone, 471-7046. Tuesday, Feb 8, 11:30-12:30, Cal Lee, Student Discussions. See Feb 7, 1:30 - 2 PM for details. Tuesday, Feb 8, 11:30-1:30 PM, Texas Union 3.304, Open House. The Texas Union invites you to a free Open House! Come visit us and see newly remodeled rooms and taste some of the delicious food that Texas Union Catering has to offer. There will be a selection of savory foods, sweets and beverages for lunch. The event will be held in the Quadrangle room (3.304). Please RSVP. We look forward to seeing you there! Wednesday, Feb 9, 4:30-6:30 PM, Java, Java, ASIST meeting. Let's get together over coffee and share our favorite email lists, SIGS, sites, books and blogs. That way we can all be on the same page...hehehe! Everyone is welcome! Feel free to come at any time. We look forward to seeing you. Java Java is located at 26th and Medical Arts. For further information, please visit the chapter Website or contact Kirstin, Shannon, or Vallerie. Thursday, Feb 10, 4-6 PM, SZB 556, PCS Forum, Linda Barone, Etherington Conservation Center: A Small Business Atmosphere. Linda is an iSchool Conservator alum from 2003, Since graduation, she has been employed as a conservator with the Etherington Conservation Center, a private conservation company founded by Don Etherington, world-renowned conservator and former director of the Harry Ransom Center's Conservation Department. Linda has a wonderful presentation in store for us! We hope to see you!For more information, please contact Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa, Director, The Kilgarlin Center for Preservation of the Cultural Record. Friday, Feb 11, 5-7 PM, Scholz Garten, Student, Faculty , Staff , Friends, and Family Happy hour. Come when you can and leave when you want. When it is cool we are inside where it is crowded and noisy. When it is warm we are outside in the garden where it is more comfortable. Scholz Garten is located two blocks from campus at 1607 San Jacinto Boulevard For more information please contact the student association Co-Directors, Angela, Cristen, Jacob, or Vanessa. Friday, Feb 11, 6:30-9:30 PM, SAA Spring Potluck. Mary Anne MarDock, Chapter President of the UT Chapter of SAA invites all interested iSchool students and faculty to the Spring SAA potluck. A sign up sheet is posted on the SAA bulletin board, for all who would like to sign up. We look forward to having all of you there! For more information, please contact Mary Anne.
Future Events - Mark Your Calendar Monday, Feb 14, 4-5:45 PM, SZB 556, Ron Pollock, Creating Effective Resumes and Cover Letters. What to Bring: Paper & pen for notes and for creating accomplishments and components of a cover letter; a current resume; and a job announcement for a position for which you would like to apply. Feel free to bring food/drink, arrive a little late, or leave a little early. For more information please contact Ron Pollock Director of Career Services via email or phone, 471-2623. Monday, Feb 14, 8-9:30 PM, Bates, Kevin Noe, UT Symphony Orchestra. Admission is $7.00. Tickets are available at the door. For more information, please visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, or contact School of Music Information by email or phone, 471-0806. Tuesday, Feb 15, Student Poster Proposals Due (Receipt date).
Tuesday, Feb 15, 11:30-1 PM, City Hall, ARMA Tour. Arrangements have been made for a personal tour of the New City Hall Building for our ARMA members. The new building was recently completed and opened to the public in December. The building was designed to emphasize the city's culture of environmental friendliness, high-tech leadership and public involvement in government. Entrance to the public parking garage is off of Lacava between Cesar Chavez and 2 nd Street . Visitors can enter the building either off of 2nd Street or off of Cesar Chavez. Our group will assemble in the lobby directly outside of the City Clerk's Office on the 1 st floor. Please join us for a personal and up close tour of this beautiful building. Please RSVP by February 11. For RSVP and further information, please contact Jannette Goodall. Tuesday, Feb 15, 3:30-5 PM, SZB 468, iForum, Dr. Barbara Immroth, Can the application of social marketing techniques and theory promote collaborations between professors and classroom teachers? For further information please contact Dr. Randolph Bias, iForum Committee Chair via email or phone, 471-7046. Wednesday, Feb 16, 7-9 PM, ACE Avaya Auditorium, IEEE COMSOC-SP, Gary Southwell, Triple Play Networks. Triple play networks are those that offer telephone, data, data, and television in the same package. Most triple play network designs under consideration are destined to never turn a profit. Come see advances in the Triple play that are intended to improve both the top and bottom lines, by allowing telcos to charge more, lower their up front and ongoing costs, streamline their service deployment models, offer more content selection, all while offering a higher quality video service required to compete with the MSOs. Gary Southwell has served the industry for over 20 years, and has been an active leader in development of routing technology, ATM and Optical Ethernet solutions. Gary's career includes early work on data voice technologies at Motorola, followed by developing routing solutions at Wellfleet Communications. Work at Bay Networks included leading efforts to bring its ATM and L3 switches to market, establishing them as market share leaders. At Nortel, Gary lead efforts to bring MPLS routing solutions to market, and then created a new solution category know as optical Ethernet and was instrumental in driving Nortel leadership in this space. Gary subsequently went on to take over marketing at Internet Photonics where he helped establish the company as the leading provider of optical Ethernet solutions in the Cable Market. Gary currently serves as VP of Segment Marketing at CIENA, focusing on the successful development and adoption of new solutions. Gary has also served with the Metro Ethernet Forum since its founding and currently serves as Vice President and Treasure. Attendance is free but reservations are desired. For more information and reservations please visit the IEEE COMSOC-SP Website or contact Howard Hedrick. Thursday, Feb 17, 12-12:30 PM, 7-3:30 PM Saturday, Feb 19, 8-10 PM, Reagan HS PAC, Austin Symphonic Band, Subscription Series Concert #2: Cars...Trains...Boats...Planes. The ASB's second concert of the subscription year presents music inspired by various modes of transportation. From the automobile and train to the stately procession of the Tall Ships at the American Bicentennial and the Sound of Freedom as the jet aircraft zoom overhead, composers have created music in tribute to these means of getting around. Every selection on this program has something to do with one of these types of transportation. Works scheduled for the program include:
Tiickets, $8 and $10, are available by phone, 474-TIXS, or at the door. For more information please visit the ASB Website or contact the ASB at 345-4720. Monday, Feb 21, 4-5:30 PM, SZB 556, Andy Switzky, Alumni Speaker Series. Andy is a 2004 UT MLIS graduate and a consultant with SBC Online, specializing in i nformation architecture, user interface design, and usability. The Alumni Speakers Series brings graduates of our program back to campus to share their career experiences with students. Their stories provide valuable information about the job market, regardless of their own individual positions. As part of their talks, they will discuss their current position and how they chose their career, how they prepared for it with work experience and coursework, how they conducted their job searches, and what was successful for them. They will also talk about the current job market, what they consider important for graduates to know about job search today, and what they look for when they hire new employees, from skills that are important to how they view resumes and conduct interviews. For more information please contact Ron Pollock, Director of Career Services, via email or phone, 471-2623. Tuesday, Feb 22, 3:30-5 PM, SZB 468, iForum, Dr. Loriene Roy., Spectrum Initiative Longitudinal Study. For further information please contact Dr. Randolph Bias, iForum Committee Chair via email or phone, 471-7046. Friday, Feb 25, 2005, Contributed posters/short papers due Saturday, Feb 26, 8:30 AM - 1:30 PM, UT Law School, Faculty, People's Law School. This is a free annualprogram designed to educate the community about common legal issues. Organized by the Travis County Bar Association, this half-day seminar offers more than 40 classes in topics such as small business issues, identity theft, wills & estate planning, adoption, and more. Courses will be taught on Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The classes are geared toward people who need general legal information. There will be two classes just for Spanish-speakers in Divorce Law and Employment Law. The event will also offer three new "hot topic" courses: Love Your Neighbor, Unmarried Partner Issues, and T.V. Trials. This event is free to the public and pre-registration is encouraged. There is a release on UT Law's home page. For more information, please see the event Website or contact Jodi Bart,Communications Coordinator, The University of Texas at Austin School of Law via email or phone, 471-7330. Monday, Feb 28, SZB464, 6-7 PM, Christine McNew, presenting an update about the new Texas School Library Standards. This is the version that will be proposed to the TSLAC Commissioners at their February meeting and is available at their Website . The timing is excellent since the Standards will be posted for a 30-day comment period in the Texas Register in March. Christine will be looking for our opinions. This will probably be the last chance to make changes for several years. Christine is a TSLAC Youth Consultant. For further information and if you would like to attend, please contact Dr. Immrothso she can plan enough handouts for everyone. Monday, Feb 28, 8-9:30 PM, Bates, Choral Arts Society, Quintessentially French. Dr. James Morrow directs the UT Choral Arts Society in Gabriel Fauré, Requiem, Louis Vierne, Messe Solennelle, and César Franck, Psalm 150. Featuring Judith and Gerre Hancock will be at the organ. Admission is $16.00 for the general public, $13.00 for faculty/staff, and $10.00 for students. Tickets are available at the door. For more information, please visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, contact School of Music Information by email or phone, 471-0806 or contact Dr. James Morrow via email or phone., 471-0806. Tuesday, March 1, 3:30-5 PM, SZB 468, iForum, Dr. Oliver Chen, topic to be announced. For further information please contact Dr. Randolph Bias, iForum Committee Chair, via email or phone, 471-7046. Wednesday, March 2, 4-5:30 PM, SZB 556, Nicholette Schneider, Alumni Speaker Series. Nicolette is a 2003 UT MLIS graduate and Reference and Access Services Librarian in the Special Collections Research Center of the Syracuse University Library. The Alumni Speakers Series brings graduates of our program back to campus to share their career experiences with students. Their stories provide valuable information about the job market, regardless of their own individual positions. As part of their talks, they will discuss their current position and how they chose their career, how they prepared for it with work experience and coursework, how they conducted their job searches, and what was successful for them. They will also talk about the current job market, what they consider important for graduates to know about job search today, and what they look for when they hire new employees, from skills that are important to how they view resumes and conduct interviews. For more information please contact Ron Pollock, Director of Career Services, via email or phone, 471-2623. Thursday, March 3, 7:45 AM - 5 PM, MCC, David O. Stephens, Bridging
the Gap. At the ARMA Austin
Spring Conference, David Stephins will present: RM
and IT: A Strategic Partnership for Success in Electronic Records and
Management and Enterprise Strategies for Electronic Records Retention. The
Strategic Partnership presentation will address relationships between
the records management discipline and what is
arguably its most important stakeholder -- information technology or
IT. The presentation will examine
how the relationship between these two groups has changed and evolved
over the years, and where it is
today. Next, the attendees will be provided with a detailed discussion
concerning why IT needs records
management, and how the two groups can work together to bring better
management to both physical
and electronic records throughout the enterprise. MCC is located at 3925 West Braker Lane, which is on the southwest corner of MoPac (Loop 1) and Braker Lane. Please park in the designated visitor's parking lot on the south side (front) of the building. You should see a roundabout (circular driveway) in front between the parking lot and the building. Disabled spaces are in the southwest corner of the visitor lot. Registration fee is: $135 for ARMA members, $150 for non-members, and $35 for Students. For registration forms, the speaker's bio and other information , please visit the conference Website or contact Alicia Mallory by email or phone at 499-4210. Thursday, March 3, 6:30 - 8:30 PM, UT Club, Texas Exes Business Network, Hector DeLeon and Jim Boon, State of the Texas Exes. TEBN welcomes Two Outstanding Texas Exes Leaders, Hector DeLeon, President, Texas Exes; Founder, and Managing Partner, DeLeon, Boggins & Icenogle, P.C. and Jim Boon, Executive Director, Texas Exes. They will form a panel to focus on where the Texas Exes as an organization is at the present and where it is that the organization is headed. The two Texas Exes leaders will also provide answers to questions from the audience. re-pay discounts for registrations prior to Noon on February 28 are $12 for Texas Exes members and $15 for non-members; registrations after then or at the door are $15 and $18 respectively. For more information please visit the event Website or contact Walt Esquivel. Friday-Saturday, March 4-5, Dallas, Federal Reserve Bank, SLA Spring Meeting. Details Sunday, March 6, 3-5 PM, Bates, Bradley Welch, Great Organ Series Concert. Bradley is the organist at the Highland Park Presbyterian Church in Dallas and the 2003 winner, of the Dallas International Organ Competition. Admission is $14.00 for the general public and $10.00 for students. Tickets are available at the door. For more information, please visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, or contact School of Music Information by email or phone, 471-0806. Wednesday, March 9, 4-5:30 PM, SZB 556, A.J. Johnson and Liane Luckman, Alumni Speaker Series. A.J. is a UT MLIS 2001 graduate and Reference and Access Services Librarian in the Special Collections Research Center of the Syracuse University Library. Liane is a UT MLIS 2001 graduate and Reference Coordinator at the Scarborough-Phillips Library at St. Edward's University. A.J. and Liane will discuss the differences in working in large academic library systems (UT) and smaller academic libraries (St. Edwards). The Alumni Speakers Series brings graduates of our program back to campus to share their career experiences with students. Their stories provide valuable information about the job market, regardless of their own individual positions. As part of their talks, they will discuss their current position and how they chose their career, how they prepared for it with work experience and coursework, how they conducted their job searches, and what was successful for them. They will also talk about the current job market, what they consider important for graduates to know about job search today, and what they look for when they hire new employees, from skills that are important to how they view resumes and conduct interviews. For more information please contact Ron Pollock, Director of Career Services, via email or phone, 471-2623. Monday-Saturday, March 14-19, Spring Break. Tuesday, March 22, 3:30-5 PM, SZB 468, iForum, Dr. Miles Efron. For further information please contact Dr. Randolph Bias, iForum Committee Chair via email or phone, 471-7046. Monday, March 28, 8-9:30 PM, Bates, Kevin Noe, UT Symphony Orchestra. Admission is $7.00. Tickets are available at the door. For more information, please visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, or contact School of Music Information by email or phone, 471-0806. Tuesday-Friday, April 5-8, All day, Texas Library Association (TLA) Conference.For the first time in almost 40 years , librarians, library supporters, and vendors will gather in Austin for the annual TLA conference. We've assembled a conference experience like none other. National broadcaster and political commentator Cokie Roberts , chicana narrative artist Carmen Lomas Garza , MAD Magazine editor Joe Raiola , author Barbara Taylor Bradford , and (how cool is this!) actor and producer Henry Winkler are featured speakers. For registration, volunteering, and further information, Please visit the Conference Website. Wednesday, March 9, 4-5:30 PM, SZB 556, Ruth Wolfish and Rachel Berrington, Alumni Speaker Series. Ruth is a UT MLIS 1977 graduate and the Eastern U.S. Customer Relations Manager for IEEE. She has had previous experience with Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs, and is the incoming president of the New Jersey Chapter of SLA. Rachel graduated from the University of Arizona, is the Western U.S. Customer Relations Manager for IEEE, and was the former president of the Oregon Chapter of SLA. The Alumni Speakers Series brings graduates of our program back to campus to share their career experiences with students. Their stories provide valuable information about the job market, regardless of their own individual positions. As part of their talks, they will discuss their current position and how they chose their career, how they prepared for it with work experience and coursework, how they conducted their job searches, and what was successful for them. They will also talk about the current job market, what they consider important for graduates to know about job search today, and what they look for when they hire new employees, from skills that are important to how they view resumes and conduct interviews. For more information please contact Ron Pollock, Director of Career Services, via email or phone, 471-2623. Thursday-Friday, March 31-April 1, Pickle Conf Ctr, Electronic Records Forum. Tuesday, April 19, 3:30-5 PM, SZB 468, iForum, presenter and topic to be announced. For further information please contact Dr. Randolph Bias, iForum Committee Chair, via email or phone, 471-7046. Monday, April 25, 8:-9:30 PM, Bates, Kevin Noe, UT Symphony Orchestra. Admission is $7.00. Tickets are available at the door. For more information, please visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, or contact School of Music Information by email or phone, 471-0806. Tuesday,April 26, 3:30-5 PM, SZB 468, iForum, Dr. Lynn Westbrook, topic to be announced. For further information please contact Dr. Randolph Bias, iForum Committee Chair, via email or phone, 471-7046. Monday, May 2, 8-10 PM, Bates, Combined Concert, Classical Perfection. Mozart Mass in C Minor, (The Great) and Beethoven Choral Fantasy. Dr. James Morrow conducts the UT Choral Arts Society, UT Chamber Singers,and the UT Symphony Orchestra in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mass in C Minor, K. 427 (The Great), and Ludwig van Beethoven, Choral Fantasy. Featuring Anton Nel, piano. Admission is $16.00 for the general public, $13.00 for faculty/staff, and $10.00 for students. Tickets are available on the web, by phone, 477-6060, at the UT PAC ticket office, at the Erwin Center, at HEB stores, and at the door. For more information, please visit the Music Department Events Calendar, call the music events hotline, 471-5401, contact School of Music Information by email or phone, 471-0806, or contact Dr. James Morrow via email or phone., 471-0806. Friday, May 6, Last day of classes. Saturday, May 21, 9-11AM, Bass, Graduate School Convocation for Masters Students. For more information please visit the Office of Graduate Studied Website and the UT 122nd Commencement Website. Saturday, May 21, 11 AM - Noon, Alumni Center, Graduate School Reception for Masters Students. For more information please visit the Office of Graduate Studies Website. Saturday, May 21, Noon-1PM, Bass, Graduate School Convocation for Doctoral Students. For more information please visit the Office of Graduate Studies Website. and the UT 122nd Commencement Website. Saturday, May 21, 1-2 PM, Alumni Center, Graduate School Reception for Doctoral Students. For more information please visit the Office of Graduate Studies Website. Saturday, May 21, 3-4 PM, UNB 2.228 (Texas Union Theater), iSchool Convocation.For more information please contact Melba Claymon by email or phone, 471-2185. Saturday, May 21, 4-6 PM, UNB 3.502 (Santa Rita Room), iSchool Graduation Reception. For more information please contact Melba Claymon by email or phone, 471-2185. Saturday, May 21, 7:00-10:30 PM, South Mall, UT Commencement. For more information please visit the UT 122nd Commencement Website. Monday, May 30, Submission Due: Full papers and
posters submission to be included in the Proceedings. Call for papers for the Second International Conference on Knowledge Management--Nurturing Culture, Innovation, and Technology--Jointly organized by the Information and Knowledge Management Society ( i KMS) & The American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) http://www.ickm2005.org . The second International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM2005) will be held at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in the Westin Charlotte, North Carolina on October 27-28, 2005 . The conference will bring together academics, researchers, developers, practitioners, and users in the areas of knowledge management and information processing. It will serve as a platform for networking, exchange of research ideas, practical applications and best practices. Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work on all aspects of information and knowledge management. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
Submission Website: http://www.softconf.com/start/ICKM_ASIST2005/submit.html . For further information please contact Suliman Hawamdeh or Michael Smith .
Who We Are Webpage The information on the Ph.D. student Webpage is slowly growing. Names of all current Ph.D. students have been added. Your other information is needed to complete it . Please send Don a jpeg photo, information to post, and a link to your Website whenever you can. What is this Webpage? Well, as we agreed in spring semester, 2002, we wanted to have a summary page with a list of all Ph.D. students and links to more detailed information on each of us. The summary page consist of a photo, name, academic interest, contact information, and links to other pages. A detail page repeats the summary information and provides, education, a brief biography, and specialization. Students information should be linked to each student's individual Website with their vita, resume, and any other information they may wish to provide. If there is interest, we can also add Ph.D. alumni to this list. There is an input form that might work with your browser. Otherwise you can copy and paste.
Professional Associations, Email Lists, and other Forums Information on professional associations, student governance organizations, email lists and and other forums of interest to Information school Ph.D. students is provided through the Ph.D. Forums link on the left. Included is information on email lists, Blackboard, Websites and other forums.
Information School Forums The school of information sponsors weekly or fortnightly iForums (or iFora) of interest to School of Information Students and Faculty. Scholars from across the campus and occasionally from other universities are invited to present their work at a forum. From time to time, Ph.D. students are also invited to present their work to the forum. Each individual forum will be listed in the above schedule when details are known. In 2001 and 2002 , Ph.D. students organized the Ph.D. students organized a colloquia to share their work in a friendly environment. The last series we had was the Fall 2002 Ph.D. Colloquia Series. Such a series could be reestablished if there was an interest. If you are interested in leading such a series, please contact Don Drumtra for his experience on leading the 2002 Colloquia
Orientations New students (and even old) might appreciate the following
two Orientation Websites:
Disclaimer. The following information is compiled from various sources and is current as of the time it was written and the documents available. It is not official UT, Graduate School, or School of Information policy. It is offered to help Ph.D. students gain an overview of Ph.D. requirements. Please refer to official sources for current information before taking irreversible action. General. UT Graduate School requirements for award of the Ph.D. degree are listed in the UT Graduate Catalog. Detailed requirements for the School of Information are listed the provided on the Doctor of Philosophy Webpage. Lisa Kleinman provided an unofficial summary of the requirements to the participants in the Fall 2004 Ph.D. Orientation. Milestones. Program milestones consist of development and approval of a Program of Study, satisfactory completion of course work and a comprehensive doctoral examination including written, oral, and research components, presentation and approval of credentials to Graduate School (including a separate Program of Work), approval of a dissertation proposal, research and completion of a dissertation culminating in a final examination consisting of defense of the the dissertation and final presentation approval of the student's credentials to the Graduate School. Administrative progress through most of these milestones is described in the Checklist for the Doctoral Program (1993). Annual reviews are submitted to the students Advising Committee so that the committee may evaluate the student's progress. The student's Supervising Committee monitors the student's progress after the student reaches candidacy. Graduate Studies Committee. Within the School of Information, the Graduate Studies Committee or GSC approves the students Program of Study and Annual review. Doctoral Program of Study. The content of the Program of Study is provided in the Guidelines for Development of the Doctoral Program of Study (ca. 1993). Lisa Kleinman and Don Drumtra have posted examples of their approved programs on their Websites. Annual Review. Required content of the Annual Reviews is provided in the Annual Review of GSLIS Doctoral Students (2002) and the Annual Review of Ph.D. Students (draft, 2003). Lisa Kleinman and Don Drumtra have posted examples of their approved Annual Reviews on their Websites. Qualifying Procedures. In order to qualify to apply for candidacy, the iSchool requires a written exam and oral defense (often called the comprehensive exam or "comps") and a research paper accepted by the student's committee. This committee (perhaps, it could be called the Examination Committee) ordinarily consists of three members of the iSchool faculty and one outside member. The three iSchool members could be your Advising Committee, potential members of your Supervising Committee, or any other three members who agree to serve. Application for Candidacy. On June 1, 2004 the UT Office of Graduate Studies automated the application for candidacy and placed it online. Instructions for completion of and a link to the actual online form is provided in the application Webpage. Other candidacy requirements are also provided on that page including the requirement for the Program of Work.
Dissertation. Requirements for the content of your dissertation are developed between you and your Supervising Committee and the Graduate School sets guidelines for format. There are two format guidelines are provided by the Graduate School (Office of Graduate Studies or OGS), print guidelines and electronic submission guidelines. Even though you must submit your dissertation electronically, you would do well to meet both guidelines because someone might very well want to print your dissertation in the future. An a point of interest, the final authority on both the content and format of your dissertation is your Supervisory Committee--not the folks in the Office of Graduate Studies. However, the OGS folks can make life really difficult for you if you do not listen to them. Dr. Harmon and eleven other UT advisors have published dissertation tips for doctoral students. It is posted on the UT Intellectual Entrepreneurship, Dissertation List-Serve and Resources Webpage. The Webpage also contains a dissertation writing bibliography, reflections of former graduate deans on dissertation completion, advice from UT alumni, and numerous other useful items for Ph.D. students. Final Oral Exam (Defense of Dissertation. A satisfactory final oral examination is required for the approval of a dissertation. The Office of Graduate Studies publishes the time and place of this examination. The exam is open to all members of the University community and the public, unless attendance is restricted by the Graduate Studies Committee. Information is available in the Graduate Catalog and an application form are available from the Office of Graduate Studies. Application for Graduation. There are lots of forms for graduation listed by the Office of Graduate Studies. You would be well advised to visit the office of Graduate Studies well before the deadlines to be sure you have the latest information and do not forget an essential form the absence of which might hold up your graduation. Graduation. After all that work you won't want to miss the graduation celebration and fireworks at the end of the spring semester. UT introduced a new doctoral robe in 2001, which will be first available for graduating students in May, 2005. You can be one of the first scholars to wear one. Additional Sources. The University of Texas and the UT Office of Graduate Studies provide the latest information on degree and administrative requirements requirements in three publications:
Research Methods and Other Graduate Courses The iSchool PhD Methods Courses Webpage lists many research methods courses available in the university that may be suitable for meeting the iSchool Ph.D. research methods requirements listed on the iSchool Doctor of Philosophy Webpage. Lisa Kleinman has written an excellent summary that should be of particular interest. She describes her summary as follows, "yo, in case (like me) you were overwhelmed by the number of research methods courses that seemed available at UT, but were suspiciously vague in terms of description -- here is a list that I've compiled with/ course names & descriptions. the doctoral studies committee & your own advisor may be able to make further recommendations as to which would be specifically appropriate for you" (2003 Dec. 15, personal communications). Doctoral Committee recommendations will be posted on this Website as soon as they become available. Research Methods in Information Systems, MIS 381N.26. Earlier, Lisa provided us this information on a this course. "The Information Systems department in the Business School is interested in having more iSchool folk taking their courses. In particular, Ph.D. students may want to consider taking “Research Methods in Information Systems” taught by Salina Circus. I took this class last year, and it provides an excellent survey of the multitude of different research methods (both qualitative and quantitative) as applied to understanding the effects of information technology. Alina is very flexible about the core focus areas, so if a whole bunch of people want to “study X”, she'll find a way to incorporate it. If you’re a Masters student, you can take this course if you’re interested in subjecting yourself to reading a ga-zillion journal articles from the latest sexy issues of MIS Quarterly... which ain’t the “Miss Quarterly” that I was hoping for, let me tell you... The course is offered in spring 2004" (personal communications). Information provided by Lisa Kleinman. For more information about the course see the Course Webpage or contact Dr. Chircu" (2003 Oct. 31, personal communications). Statistics Website. The Website, www.statpages.net, provides about 600 links and about 380 statistical calculators. It is now owned by AOL. Recently AOL has begun restricting its content to AOL members, so please let me know if this Website becomes inaccessible. Graduate School Courses provide a unique opportunity for School of Information Ph.D. students because they provide a multidisciplinary atmosphere of learning. Students from across the campus attend these courses and share experiences and viewpoints form their own departments. Two courses of major interest to our programs are:
Check to Be Sure. Please do not forget however, that not all of the courses listed will be satisfactory to meet any particularly student's Ph.D. program requirements. "Since advancement to candidacy is contingent on faculty approval of a course of work, the student should consult regularly with their committee on matters of course selection" (School of Information, undated, Academic Programs, Ph.D.). Information on Qualitative Research Methods. In September 2004, Dr. Davis loaned a copy of the three-volume Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods (2004) to the lab for our use. It not only provides excellent summaries of lots of issues and topics related to research methodology, but it provides reference sources under each topic to allow further exploration. A copy is also available is also at the PCL reference desk. Content Manager: Don Drumtra 2005 February 9 |
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