March 28, 2006

This post will be proof that I can be brief...

...in at least one of my grad school related spheres.

I found this IHE piece and comments about this report interesting.

I fall way outside most "time to degree" range stats.

I believe that "quick" is not always best.

Sometimes there is inadequate context in "quick."

Or geography for intellectual exploration.

Or materials for building vast social networks.

That has been my experience.

That is what I think.

But who cares what I think?

Move along.

(Quickly.)

Posted by perry032 at March 28, 2006 01:04 PM | TrackBack
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I definitely agree with you that quick is not always best. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line--and being linear definitely isn't always the best route in education. I do wish that more graduate programs were designed with flexibility to take us through more evolutions in our intellectual development rather than to only complete a fixed set of requirements (from point A to point B to point C). So for someone like me who did an undergrad and MA degree in my field before the PhD, it would have been nice to have a program designed to introduce me to more new ideas outside my area before completing the diss. I would not have objected to paths and coursework off the standard line. I kind of did that on my own with the help of my committee, but it was a struggle and seen as kind of "odd." And of course, attractive funding packages can be very inticing to keep one on a particular trajectory....

And for the record, I don't know how I feel about you doing "quick" posts--it's not the same :)!

Posted by: Mon at March 28, 2006 02:51 PM
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