Sunday, January 15, 2006
NKU arts programs are in today's Enquirer
The Cincinnati Enquirer has a preview of arts in the Queen City in 2006, and NKU is spotlighted. I was interviewed for the article (about a 20 minute conversation) which is condensed to two paragraphs. There's even a photo! Unfortunately, there are a couple errors in the report - I'm not (nor do I want to be) the Chair (being coordinator of the RTV/EMB program is crazy enough) and the reporter makes it sound like the College of Informatics (not the Radio/Television program) is going to change to Electronic Media and Broadcasting. But it's great to be included with Art, Music and Theatre in a gushing article about what we're doing with digital cinema and documentary production!
OK, off to prep classes, make a list of Dean candidate reference calls, write letters of recommendation for three students, double-check the classes for Fall, write one-sheets for the two new Integrated Media classes I proposed and - oh yeah - write some more on "Forgetting" - my film for the summer. When anyone talks about the "free time" that college professors have smack them upside the head, please.
Oh, and I'm going to read more of "The World is Flat" - the book about how technology is changing the world: politically, socially, personally. I'm a couple chapters in, and I'm happy to say that I haven't been surprised by anything yet, but I anticipate some interesting correlations between how technology has developed and the direction the world is taking.
CLS
OK, off to prep classes, make a list of Dean candidate reference calls, write letters of recommendation for three students, double-check the classes for Fall, write one-sheets for the two new Integrated Media classes I proposed and - oh yeah - write some more on "Forgetting" - my film for the summer. When anyone talks about the "free time" that college professors have smack them upside the head, please.
Oh, and I'm going to read more of "The World is Flat" - the book about how technology is changing the world: politically, socially, personally. I'm a couple chapters in, and I'm happy to say that I haven't been surprised by anything yet, but I anticipate some interesting correlations between how technology has developed and the direction the world is taking.
CLS
Monday, January 09, 2006
Searching for a few GREAT people...
I'm currently participating in the College of Informatics Dean Search process. What an interesting process, and interesting candidates. Diverse too. We have real CS folks, real IFS folks, real Comm folks. Which is great, since the college is all about how these folks and the things they (we) do is interrelated.
I've been doing job searches for full days for over a week. Plus more from the end of December. It is SO MUCH WORK! But it's also so very valuable. We found some wonderful people to speak with. Really - we could make an offer to almost every person on the list (I'm talking about the faculty search here, not the dean search) but only have 5 open positions. And to be able to offer jobs - especially in RTV where we desperately need help - is INCREDIBLE. All three candidates with which we spoke could be hired, and that's a lovely position for us to be in - we can try and really match our needs. I wish we could hire all three.
This semester has something else going for it - a 48 Hour Film Project-like weekend moviemaking competition between the area college programs. I know that Brown Mackie College and NKU are in. I believe Cincinnati State and UC will join us. Teams of students will write, shoot and edit short films over the first weekend of April. My advanced class members (and the corresponding acting class) are very excited. What's going to be interesting is how the students take what we're looking at over the semester and consolidating that into a weekend of moviemaking.
I'll be blogging with more frequency this semester. Hope you all have a great learning experience over the next four months, whether you're a student or not!
CLS
I've been doing job searches for full days for over a week. Plus more from the end of December. It is SO MUCH WORK! But it's also so very valuable. We found some wonderful people to speak with. Really - we could make an offer to almost every person on the list (I'm talking about the faculty search here, not the dean search) but only have 5 open positions. And to be able to offer jobs - especially in RTV where we desperately need help - is INCREDIBLE. All three candidates with which we spoke could be hired, and that's a lovely position for us to be in - we can try and really match our needs. I wish we could hire all three.
This semester has something else going for it - a 48 Hour Film Project-like weekend moviemaking competition between the area college programs. I know that Brown Mackie College and NKU are in. I believe Cincinnati State and UC will join us. Teams of students will write, shoot and edit short films over the first weekend of April. My advanced class members (and the corresponding acting class) are very excited. What's going to be interesting is how the students take what we're looking at over the semester and consolidating that into a weekend of moviemaking.
I'll be blogging with more frequency this semester. Hope you all have a great learning experience over the next four months, whether you're a student or not!
CLS
