Welcome to the Ph.D. Fora Webpage. This page contains information some of the email lists and other fora that might be of interest to iSchool Ph.D.

School Of Information Ph.D. Fora

Website. The School of Information Ph.D. Website is open to the general public. It provides information on Ph.D. students and other information of interest to Ph.D. students. All current Ph.D. students are listed on the Website, with standard information, on an opt out basis, when they join the program. Any student may ask any piece of information to be deleted or to be deleted entirely if they so desire. Alumni may also be listed if they desire. Please provide the information (usually name, e-mail, homepage, committee, degrees, research Interests, and bio) to the Webmaster.

Ph.D. Listserv: Docsider. (https://utlists.utexas.edu/sympa/info/docsider) Our Ph.D. email forum or elist is an opt-out, push type, discussion forum restricted to current and former iSchool Ph.D. students. Faculty and staff are not members. We use this forum for posting and discussing items of general interest in the information field and related disciplines and for advising each other on interesting things we learn as our research progresses. This list is for topics of interest to Information iSchool Ph.D. scholars. (If you want to receive general information from the Information school, you subscribe to the Information School student organization elist, the-insider@utlists.utexas.edu)

Messages for the email forum are addressed to: docsider@utlists.utexas.edu. Only current subscribers receive messages from this list, but anyone who wishes to send a message to all Ph.D. students may post to it. The list manager will restrict this capability for non-subscribers if posting is abused. Current iSchool Ph.D. students and alumni may subscribe or unsubscribe as they wish.

Ph.D. Blackboard Forum. Our Ph.D. Blackboard Forum is an opt-out, pull type, discussion forum that also contains information that because of copyright and other limitations may not be put on the Web. The Blackboard forum is restricted to Ph.D. students. (As our mentor and guiding light, the Dean is a member of the Blackboard forum but other faculty and staff are not.) Members of may review current membership of Blackboard at any time. Information School Ph.D. students are automatically a member of the Blackboard forum but may ask to be removed if they desire. If you are a iSchool Ph.D. student and would like to participate in our blackboard discussions and read the documents posted there, simply follow the link to Blackboard and log in. In the right side of your home page under "My Organizations" you will find the link to the iSchool Ph.D. Students. Click on it and you will be there.

School of Information Student Association

For more information, visit STUDENT & PROFESSIONAL GROUPS

UT Graduate School Fora

The graduate school has a Webpage forum for all graduate students and a dissertation elist forum mainly for Ph.D. students.

Graduate School Webpage. The Graduate School provides information and courses of interest to all graduate students from their Website, http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/.

Dissertation Listserv. This is an opt-in elist for UT graduate students planning to write or in the process of writing their dissertation. It provides a forum to ask questions about the dissertation process, and for sharing dissertation experiences. Dr. Richard Cherwitz, a previous Associate Dean of graduate students, frequently posts information about job seeking after graduation and other items he believes are of interest to Ph.D. students. Instructions for getting on the list are provided on Intellectual Entrepreneurship Website, https://webspace.utexas.edu/cherwitz/www/ie/disslist.html.