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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. This week's events are normally posted each Sunday. Special events, additions, and changes during the week are noted in red. Significant future calendar events are posted as they are received. Suggested additions, corrections, and other comments are always appreciated. Email me or grab me in room SZB 463 or in the hall. . Recurring Semester Activities Each Monday, 5:30-7:30 PM, Crown and Anchor Pub, Unofficial iSchool Happy Hour. Everyone--students, faculty, and staff--is invited. Domestic is $1.50 a pint so all can afford to participate. Hope to see you there. The Crown and Anchor is located at 2911 San Jacinto just north of campus. For more information, please contact Courtney Chartier. Each Friday, 5-7 PM, Scholz Garten, Traditional iSchool Happy Hour. The Student, Faculty , Staff , Friends, and Family Happy hour. initiated by Dean Dillon. Come when you can and leave when you want. When it is cold or hot we are inside where it is crowded and noisy. When it is comfortable we are outside in the garden where it is quieter. Scholz Garten is located two blocks from campus at 1607 San Jacinto Boulevard. For more information, please contact Dean Dillon.
Activities for This Week Wednesday, Aug 24, 5-6 PM, Scholz Garten, UT
ASIS&T Happy Hour. The UT Chapter of ASIST is hosting
a post-orientation Happy Hour to welcome the newest group of
iSchool students.
Please join us.
We're expecting a strong turnout from both new and returning Thursday, Aug 25, 10 AM, SZB 556, Student Association and SLA sponsored, New Student Scavenger hunt. Want an opportunity to meet new iSchoolers and help them become familiar with the iSchool, UT, and Austin? SASI and SLA are cosponsoring a new student scavenger hunt on the UT campus next Thursday, August 25. We are looking for volunteers to be scavenger hunt team leaders, from 10:00 A.M. until the hunt ends, at 1:00. This is a great chance to give new students some guidance and have a little fun. If you are interested in volunteering, or for further information, please contact Cara Johnston, Rob Yazzie, Maggie Gallup. or Carie McGinnis, Student Association Co-Directors. Thursday, Aug 25, 10 AM-1 PM, SZB 556, SAA and UT ASIST sponsored, Information Session. Your colleagues will be on hand to answer questions and offer helpful advice on settling in, getting around, and everything else you need to know about the iSchool, UT, and Austin! Packets chock full of useful Austin Information will be available. For more information please contac Kristin, Erika, or Valerie, Cochairs. Thursday, Aug 25, 5-7 PM, Scholz Garten, Student Association and SLA Happy Hour. Meet the some of the new students, old students, and students from the scavenger hunt. Have a a cool beverage to kick off the new semester. Scholz's is at 1607 San Jacinto. For more information please contact Carie McGinnis or any of the other SASI Codirectors. Thursday-Friday, Aug 25-26, Registration for new students. Sunday, Aug 28 and Tuesday, Aug 30 Add/drops for students who have registered and paid. Monday, Aug 29, Happy Hour. See above. Future Events - Mark Your Calendar Tuesday, Aug 30, SouthMall, Gone to Texas. A celebration to welcome new students to the campus. It is well worth the time to attend. The celebration includes:
For more information please visit the event Website. Wednesday, Aug 31, Fall classes begin Thursday, Sep 1, 5:30-7:30 PM, Alumni Center, Graduate Student Assembly Annual Barbecue. If you must miss one of the GSA social events this year, this is NOT the one you want to miss. Free food, live music with Bailengua, good conversation and lots of fun. Various campus services--student health, sports, parking and traffic, etc. will have representatives to answer your questions. The alumni center is on the corner of 21st and San Jacinto across just west across the street from the stadium. For more information, please contact Don Drumtra via email or phone 291-0315. Friday, Sep 2 , 5-7 PM, Dog & Duck, SLA Happy Hour. Relax at the end of your first week , and get ready for the Monday holiday by sipping a cool one with your Special Library Association colleagues. Everyone interested in Special Libraries is welcome. For more information please contact Heather Coleman or Amy Reese SLA Codirectors. Saturday-Monday, Sep 3-5, Zilker Park, Austin City Limits Music Festival. 3 Days, 8 Stages, 130 Bands. 3 day passes are sold out. Limited 1 day tickets are still available on-line (not cheap). Monday, Sep 5, Labor Day Holiday--no classes. Tuesday, Sep 6, 4-5 PM, SZB 468, Student Association Organization Meeting. Come and help shape the Student Association's program for the year. For more information please contact Cara Johnston, Rob Yazzie, Maggie Gallup. or Carie McGinnis, Student Association Co-Directors. Wednesday, Sep 7, 4:30-5:30 PM, SZB 468, UT ASIST Meeting. Help us plan our activities for 2005-2006. We need you input to succeed. Ideas we have talked about include:
For more information, please contact Kristin, Erika, or Valerie, Cochairs. Friday, Sep 9, 6-9 PM, Dr. David Gracy's home, SAA Potluck. SAA members, prospective SAA members, archive students, PCS students, records management students, faculty, staff, and students who might be interested in archives are invited and welcome. More information will be available shortly. Friday, Sep 16, Last day for early registration for the 2005 annual ASIST meeting, Oct 28-Nov 2 (see below). ASIST member student registration is $130 prior to this and $160 after. If you plan to go it is cheaper to become a student member at $40 than pay the non-member student rate of $185. You may register online. Friday-Sunday, Sep 23-25, Zilker Park, Austin City Limits Music Festival. As the festival is already well on its way to a sell out, single day tickets are limited in number, and 3 day tickets are also still available. Details on tickets are available at austincitylimits.com Tuesday, Sep 27, 11:30 AM - 1 PM, Goodwill Temporary Services,
Sandy Broady-Rudd, Marketing your Records Management
Program. What
does marketing have to do with Records Management? Tuesday, Oct 18, 11:30-1 PM, ARMA Meeting. Details will follow. Friday, Oct 28 - -Wednesday, Nov 2, Westin, Charlotte NC, Sparking Synergies: Bringing Research and Practice Together. , The 2005 annual ASIST meeting will focus on the diversity of perspectives and insights from all those participating in the information science and technology community, as they generate innovative ideas, define theoretical concepts or work out the nuts and bolts of implementing well-tested ideas in new ways and in new settings. A wide variety of plenary and invited speakers, moderated panels, poster sessions and refereed papers will explore this theme. ASIST member student registration is $160 after Sep 16. If you plan to go it is best to become a student member at $55 than pay the non-member student rate of $215. You may register online. The second International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM2005) will be held at the ASIS&T Annual Meeting in the Westin Charlotte, North Carolina on Thursday-Friday, 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. Registration for students is $150, or if you register for both ASIST and ICKM you will save $20. Friday-Sunday, Oct 28-30, TX State Capital, Texas Book Festival: A Celebration of Words. The Texas Book Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Follow American history from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War with noted historians David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Gary Wills; experience a series of Unfortunate Events with Lemony Snicket; aid Alexander McCall Smith in unraveling the next mystery at the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency. The festival benefits Texas public libraries. Please visit the festival Website for details. Monday, Oct 31, Halloween and the first day of spring registration. Friday, Nov 3, 5:30-9:30, Red Oak Ballroom, ARMA's 25th Anniversary
Celebration. ARMA
Austin is celebrating it’s 25th Anniversary Hawaiian
style! Thursday-Sunday, Nov 24-27, Thanksgiving break Friday, Dec 9, Last day of Fall Classes
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 Alina Chircu. 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: Academic
and Professional Writing, GRS 390W, normally offered in
the fall semester. This course meets the Ph.D. program writing
requirement. Dissertation Courses and Other Information. In January or February of each year the Graduate School has a workshop on dissertations. The Graduate School Website also provide formats for dissertations, information on how to prepare digital dissertations, and various forms you will need for graduation. 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 August 28 |
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