scholarly journals Filling the Gap

2015 ◽  
pp. 67-85
Author(s):  
Sigrid Anderson Cordell ◽  
Alexa L. Pearce ◽  
Melissa Gomis ◽  
Justin Joque
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Job Skills ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
Academic Job Market ◽  
The University

Graduate students in the humanities increasingly view training in the use of digital tools and methodologies as critical to their success. Graduate students' interest in becoming familiar with digital tools often accompanies their awareness of a competitive academic job market, coupled with a recognition that teaching and research positions increasingly call for experience and skills in the Digital Humanities (DH). Likewise, recent debates over DH's role in the future of humanities scholarship have heightened the sense that DH skills can translate to crucial job skills. While many graduate students receive encouragement from faculty to pursue digital scholarship, individual academic departments often have limited resources to prioritize the development of these skills at the expense of existing curricular components. This chapter looks at initiatives at the University of Michigan Library that demonstrate the ways in which subject librarians, in collaboration with data and technology specialist librarians, can fill this gap by creating opportunities for graduate students to develop DH skills.

Book Reviews

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 589-591
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Mechanism Design ◽  
Incentive Compatibility ◽  
Dominant Strategy ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Dynamic Mechanism Design ◽  
Temple University ◽  
The University ◽  
Robust Mechanism Design

Dimitrios Diamantaras of Temple University reviews “An Introduction to the Theory of Mechanism Design,” by Tilman Börgers. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Presents explanations of classic results in the theory of mechanism design and examines the frontiers of research in mechanism design in a text written for advanced undergraduate and graduate students of economics who have a good understanding of game theory. Discusses screening; examples of Bayesian mechanism design; examples of dominant strategy mechanisms; incentive compatibility; Bayesian mechanism design; dominant strategy mechanisms; nontransferable utility; informational interdependence; robust mechanism design; and dynamic mechanism design. Börgers is Samuel Zell Professor of the Economics of Risk at the University of Michigan.”

Alumni Evaluate Poly Sci Courses

1983 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 15-16
Author(s):  
Frank Whelon Wayman
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
The Political ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Arts Programs ◽  
The University

The political scientists at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, concerned about what becomes of political science majors in today's job market, have completed a survey of the occupational status and quality of life of recent alumni. This paper examines the potential contributions of that survey as a model for future evaluations of political science programs and other liberal arts programs. In the paper, I will discuss the design of the study, its findings, and the lessons that might be useful to those who would wish to do such studies on their own campuses.DesignThe University of Michigan, Dearborn evaluation was done primarily by, and for the benefit of, the political science faculty. Thus, the evaluation was tailored to particular faculty interests and concerns.

Strategy and Etiquette for Graduate Students Entering the Academic Job Market

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 513-526 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerald Shively ◽  
Richard Woodward ◽  
Denise Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Academic Job Market

scholarly journals Designing a flexible outreach program for scholarly communication and copyright services: A modular roadshow for the University of South Florida

2021 ◽  
Vol 82 (5) ◽  
pp. 233
Author(s):  
LeEtta Schmidt ◽  
Jason Boczar
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Academic Libraries ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
South Florida ◽  
New Method ◽  
Outreach Program ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
Digital Scholarship ◽  
The University

Much the same as many other academic libraries, the University of South Florida (USF) developed scholarly communication and copyright services in response to community demand and to fulfill perceived institutional needs. The services initially established connections through liaison librarians and referral, when faculty patrons intuitively approached the library with a query. Growth of the services was slow. A new method of outreach for copyright and scholarly communication services was needed. The DSS Roadshow, named after the library department Digital Scholarship Services, aimed at providing a menu of modularly configured presentations to faculty and graduate students at the university. Based on two different tracks, scholarly communication or copyright for instruction, the DSS Roadshow was designed to help deliver the services directly to departments around campus.

A Seller's (& Buyer's) Guide to the Job Market for Beginning Academic Economists

1988 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Carson ◽  
Peter Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Random Sample ◽  
Phone Call ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Job Interview ◽  
Faculty Advisor ◽  
Hiring Process ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Academic Job Market ◽  
Doctoral Dissertations

In an effort to increase the stock of information available to sellers and buyers in the academic job market for beginning Ph.D. economists, this paper presents the findings of a survey of the 1985-86 hiring process by economics departments. The findings are based on a stratified random sample of all economics departments ranked in the top 20, and 380 other economics departments. Sellers in this job market, typically graduate students in the final stages of their doctoral dissertations, will find answers to questions like: Will a phone call from a candidate or faculty advisor increase the probability of securing a job interview? How many weeks before the AEA meetings are requests for interviews sent out? How long does a typical job interview last and what criteria are applied? How soon after the meetings interview is a candidate likely to be invited to give a seminar at a school? Are elements of the job offer such as salary, teaching load, and summer research money negotiable? How long does a candidate have to accept or reject an offer? The benefits of these survey results will not, however, be limited to sellers.

The Future of Africa's Past: Observations on the Discipline

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 453-460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heike Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Western World ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Area Studies ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Future ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
The University

In April 2007 David William Cohen and his graduate students held a symposium on the future of African Studies at the University of Michigan. David Cohen, two graduate students—Isabelle de Rezende and Clapperton Mavhunga—as well as five invited speakers with different disciplinary backgrounds—Pius Adesanmi, Tim Burke, Jennifer Cole, Paul Zeleza, and myself—contributed papers. The purpose of the conference, entitled “2020: Re-Envisioning African Studies,” was twofold. First, it appeared timely to reflect yet again on the state of African Studies in disciplinary-based and area studies departments. Second, David Cohen had the idea of 2020 representing both the utopia of ideal vision and the concrete question of what the field might look like when the graduate students participating might conceive their second book projects. What follows are the thoughts—not a list of solutions—by a historian who has studied in three academic contexts—Germany, Zimbabwe, Britain—who has taught in as many—Britain, Germany, USA—and who has gathered experience both in area and disciplinary-based departments.Finding one's intellectual home in area studies is problematic for a range of reasons, not least for the exoticization and marginalization of non-western world regions in the global flows of ideas. At the same time, African Studies make for a comfortable sense of belonging. This is a community of scholars who provide a productive and engaging, if at times impassioned, conversation with colleagues across disciplinary boundaries, time periods, and the great diversity of African and diasporic societies and regions. The question is: what place does the historical discipline occupy within this field, and what is its future?

scholarly journals Fundamentals of an Extension Education Doctoral Specialization: The University of Florida Framework

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Harder ◽  
Matt Benge ◽  
John Diaz ◽  
Grady Roberts ◽  
Laura Warner
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Agricultural Education ◽  
Delphi Method ◽  
Extension Education ◽  
Academic Departments ◽  
Doctoral Degrees ◽  
University Of Florida ◽  
Modified Delphi ◽  
The University ◽  
New Framework

Academic departments need to periodically assess their programs to ensure that students are developing the competencies needed for successful careers. Consistent with this goal, a new framework for guiding the doctoral specialization in extension education was developed by the Department of Agricultural Education and Communication at the University of Florida. A modified Delphi method was used to guide the project with a goal of achieving consensus regarding fundamentally important theories, knowledge, literature, and experiences for graduate students pursuing doctoral degrees specialized in extension education. The resulting framework can be used as a guide for recruiting, advising, and communicating job qualifications.

Alumni Evaluate Poly Sci Courses

1983 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 15-16
Author(s):  
Frank Whelon Wayman
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Liberal Arts ◽  
Occupational Status ◽  
The Political ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Arts Programs ◽  
The University

The political scientists at the University of Michigan, Dearborn, concerned about what becomes of political science majors in today's job market, have completed a survey of the occupational status and quality of life of recent alumni. This paper examines the potential contributions of that survey as a model for future evaluations of political science programs and other liberal arts programs. In the paper, I will discuss the design of the study, its findings, and the lessons that might be useful to those who would wish to do such studies on their own campuses.DesignThe University of Michigan, Dearborn evaluation was done primarily by, and for the benefit of, the political science faculty. Thus, the evaluation was tailored to particular faculty interests and concerns.

Against Representation: Countless Hours for a Professor

PMLA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 968-972
Author(s):  
Frieda Ekotto
Keyword(s):  
Graduate Students ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The University

What work does mentoring do in the academy? to answer this question, we first have to establish what mentoring is. the university of Michigan published a detailed handbook called How to Mentor Graduate Students: A Guide for Faculty, available online. One is expected to read a guide and to perform accordingly. But this guide confronts us with the difference between theory and practice and remains silent on the issue of how much time we spend mentoring.

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