So I quiet day for me where I had time to reflect on what is coming later this week. We had a great conversation about our dissertation proposal and comps and were able to have a interactive class on using Adobe Connect.
I am fortunate to have the ability to teach at Western International University where I currently use the Adobe Connect platform to share information and present our proposals to our committee. I am excited to know that we will be using this wonderful platform down the road.
Looking at the rest of our residency and the time we have to reflect I am feeling really good about the year that we have ahead.
Up next, more classes…
-j-
Saturday, July 5, 2008
Friday, July 4, 2008
Here We Go...
Day one of the Summer 2008 residency.
As all five cohorts started to arrive at the Garfield (the downtown TUI campus), it was great to see friendly faces and begin to talk about the week ahead. I had a great chance to talk to a lot of the new learners in cohort 5. They have some great ideas on the direction of their study and will hopefully enjoy their first week in what we know as “residency”.
I had a lot of conversations with learners that are going to be adding content this week to the blog so feel to check this page out all week since it will be updated often.
Here is to a great week!!!
-j-
As all five cohorts started to arrive at the Garfield (the downtown TUI campus), it was great to see friendly faces and begin to talk about the week ahead. I had a great chance to talk to a lot of the new learners in cohort 5. They have some great ideas on the direction of their study and will hopefully enjoy their first week in what we know as “residency”.
I had a lot of conversations with learners that are going to be adding content this week to the blog so feel to check this page out all week since it will be updated often.
Here is to a great week!!!
-j-
Guest Blogger #2: Meta Commerse
Guest Blogger #2 is Meta Commerse. She is a member of cohort four and supplied us with some great information that might help us get through the week a little easier.
I had a chance to talk to her briefly in the elevator tonight and thank her for her post. This is a example of the great community we have at Union!
Peace,
-j-
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Greetings! It’s Meta Commerse, Cohort 4 here. Here are some thoughts I have to share with the larger group of learners…
We are in desperate need of some holistic self-care in this program and as cohorts. Truly, our right brains have been relegated to the designation of “other.”
Some suggestions and remedies might be:
YWCA (behind the library) membership is $25 for the week. It includes
full use (3 hours daily), indoor track, gym, pool, whirlpool, sauna,
weight and fitness room, yoga and zumba classes, etc.).
Call Amy Brown 241-7090. Perhaps we can organize some group workout times and activities.
Group meditation to quiet and relax the mind. Mornings before the activities begin is best. Anyone interested can contact me at peacemed1@aol.com. Beginners and veterans in practice all welcome.
Buddhist (SGI) gonyo gatherings (same as above) for anyone interested
Massage therapy is available by appointment at the front desk
Potluck gatherings with dancing and comedy films (at least once during the residency) would be nourishing to the soul. (all interested contact peacemed1@aol.com).
That’s my list. Hopefully some interest will generate and we can shift things a bit back into balance.
Please let me hear from you.
Blessings and gratitude.
Meta
I had a chance to talk to her briefly in the elevator tonight and thank her for her post. This is a example of the great community we have at Union!
Peace,
-j-
——
Greetings! It’s Meta Commerse, Cohort 4 here. Here are some thoughts I have to share with the larger group of learners…
We are in desperate need of some holistic self-care in this program and as cohorts. Truly, our right brains have been relegated to the designation of “other.”
Some suggestions and remedies might be:
YWCA (behind the library) membership is $25 for the week. It includes
full use (3 hours daily), indoor track, gym, pool, whirlpool, sauna,
weight and fitness room, yoga and zumba classes, etc.).
Call Amy Brown 241-7090. Perhaps we can organize some group workout times and activities.
Group meditation to quiet and relax the mind. Mornings before the activities begin is best. Anyone interested can contact me at peacemed1@aol.com. Beginners and veterans in practice all welcome.
Buddhist (SGI) gonyo gatherings (same as above) for anyone interested
Massage therapy is available by appointment at the front desk
Potluck gatherings with dancing and comedy films (at least once during the residency) would be nourishing to the soul. (all interested contact peacemed1@aol.com).
That’s my list. Hopefully some interest will generate and we can shift things a bit back into balance.
Please let me hear from you.
Blessings and gratitude.
Meta
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Guest Blogger #1 - DAWN LANGLEY- COHORT 2
Guest Blogger #1 is Dawn Langley from Cohort 2. Dawn gives a great report on what it’s like to experience “residency life”.
Getting settled in at the residency always takes a bit of a paradigm shift for me. I move from being a dean at a community college, where summers aren’t necessarily quiet (I had to settle a lot of interviewing, faculty-hiring, and paperwork before leaving), to being a student at a university where we are housed in a hotel in downtown Cincinnati. It’s always exciting to start a new semester, but this one will be a little bittersweet since the first cohort will be moving on soon, and our cohort (Cohort II) will be the “most senior.” That said, it’s important to start off with some Graeter’s ice cream, so I went there first and thought about visiting the Shakespeare company theater, the art gallery, and the museum I passed along the way. That will be what I do today. (I’ll exercise the new way of seeing we were taught in our first residency . . .)
Since I’m here before anyone else is, I get a chance to chill out, do some of the reading for the seminars we are scheduled for during this residency, and have a chance to reflect on the previous semester, as well as the one to come. It’s a bittersweet time, particularly because I know this is probably the last semester we’ll have a chance to socialize with the first cohort since they will be in comps this semester coming. Once they leave and start their dissertations, our group will become the most senior cohort, which will be kind of strange, because it will also signify our move toward our own dissertations.
Speaking of dissertations, I have struggled with going over the same ground in a different way this semester. My dissertation is focused on transgender authors, and there’s very little information already published about them, so I have to take my research right down to the very basic level of uncovering the authors themselves. My outlook and my perspective on the topic have changed a bit this semester, and I’m not sure how that will affect the final product, but I’m beginning to think that it will be quite different from what I originally planned. That said, it has also opened my eyes to the lack of literature on this group of people, as well as introduced me to the small group of scholars who have made the subject their lifelong research.
One of the great things about working with a group of like learners, as the ones in my cohort, is that they offer some feedback from their own perspectives, whether they come from a policy standpoint, a leadership point of view or the humanities (like myself). We all have a strong belief in civil justice and interdisciplinarity, so whether a person is working on research about nursing in other parts of the world or about Indian-American families or about Mexican women in baseball, they have something to offer in the way of how various groups struggle with their identities.
Funny, as I wrote that last line, I realized that we, too, are finding our selves by building our dissertations . . . certainly, many things have changed in my life since starting here. But that’s another blog!
Cheers
Dawn Langley/Cohort 2, Term 4
Getting settled in at the residency always takes a bit of a paradigm shift for me. I move from being a dean at a community college, where summers aren’t necessarily quiet (I had to settle a lot of interviewing, faculty-hiring, and paperwork before leaving), to being a student at a university where we are housed in a hotel in downtown Cincinnati. It’s always exciting to start a new semester, but this one will be a little bittersweet since the first cohort will be moving on soon, and our cohort (Cohort II) will be the “most senior.” That said, it’s important to start off with some Graeter’s ice cream, so I went there first and thought about visiting the Shakespeare company theater, the art gallery, and the museum I passed along the way. That will be what I do today. (I’ll exercise the new way of seeing we were taught in our first residency . . .)
Since I’m here before anyone else is, I get a chance to chill out, do some of the reading for the seminars we are scheduled for during this residency, and have a chance to reflect on the previous semester, as well as the one to come. It’s a bittersweet time, particularly because I know this is probably the last semester we’ll have a chance to socialize with the first cohort since they will be in comps this semester coming. Once they leave and start their dissertations, our group will become the most senior cohort, which will be kind of strange, because it will also signify our move toward our own dissertations.
Speaking of dissertations, I have struggled with going over the same ground in a different way this semester. My dissertation is focused on transgender authors, and there’s very little information already published about them, so I have to take my research right down to the very basic level of uncovering the authors themselves. My outlook and my perspective on the topic have changed a bit this semester, and I’m not sure how that will affect the final product, but I’m beginning to think that it will be quite different from what I originally planned. That said, it has also opened my eyes to the lack of literature on this group of people, as well as introduced me to the small group of scholars who have made the subject their lifelong research.
One of the great things about working with a group of like learners, as the ones in my cohort, is that they offer some feedback from their own perspectives, whether they come from a policy standpoint, a leadership point of view or the humanities (like myself). We all have a strong belief in civil justice and interdisciplinarity, so whether a person is working on research about nursing in other parts of the world or about Indian-American families or about Mexican women in baseball, they have something to offer in the way of how various groups struggle with their identities.
Funny, as I wrote that last line, I realized that we, too, are finding our selves by building our dissertations . . . certainly, many things have changed in my life since starting here. But that’s another blog!
Cheers
Dawn Langley/Cohort 2, Term 4
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Ten Days and Counting
May
25Yes…. You Can Have Some Time To Relax
Uncategorized No Comments » Today is Sunday…
May
19Out of the Bunker…
Uncategorized No Comments » Today is Monday…
May
12Going Into Hiding….
Uncategorized No Comments » Today is Monday…
May
09One Last Push….
Uncategorized No Comments » Today is Friday….
I am really busy today getting all my arrangements ready for what will be cohort #1’s 5th residency. It is kind of funny thinking that we have a year left and only two more residencies. Looking at the schedule for this residency, I am sure that we will have more time than ever to prepare for our comps and start getting some detailed direction on where we are headed with our dissertations. At this point I am happy to report that I have had some great conversations with my chair, and feel good about the progress that I have made in this program.
So in just 10 days I will begin to account for the daily activities at residency. I will answer the tough questions about what we do, what it is like living in a college dorm that feels like a luxury hotel, and discuss how not to eat chicken for all your meals.
Stay tuned….
-j-
25Yes…. You Can Have Some Time To Relax
Uncategorized No Comments » Today is Sunday…
May
19Out of the Bunker…
Uncategorized No Comments » Today is Monday…
May
12Going Into Hiding….
Uncategorized No Comments » Today is Monday…
May
09One Last Push….
Uncategorized No Comments » Today is Friday….
I am really busy today getting all my arrangements ready for what will be cohort #1’s 5th residency. It is kind of funny thinking that we have a year left and only two more residencies. Looking at the schedule for this residency, I am sure that we will have more time than ever to prepare for our comps and start getting some detailed direction on where we are headed with our dissertations. At this point I am happy to report that I have had some great conversations with my chair, and feel good about the progress that I have made in this program.
So in just 10 days I will begin to account for the daily activities at residency. I will answer the tough questions about what we do, what it is like living in a college dorm that feels like a luxury hotel, and discuss how not to eat chicken for all your meals.
Stay tuned….
-j-
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