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Michael Golrick
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10 months ago
in A PhD that’s out of reach on Family Man Librarian
I am so there with you also. I spent some time last fall looking. It is frustrating because it limits those who have actual field experience from a second career as a library school professor. I like to think that I have learned some things from being a library director which I could share with the next generation of students. The fact that there are also a limited number of places (which are often not near where I am) which offer the PhD is frustrating. A couple years ago I thought about doing an EdD in Educational Leadership at a [then] local school which had a three year program aimed at practitioners.
Maybe we need to push some more.....let me ponder.
Maybe we need to push some more.....let me ponder.
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my alma mater, UIUC GSLIS, is also offering fellowships for PhD work. They
are supporting this via an IMLS grant (I think). I asked Linda Smith,
associate dean, if residency was a requirement. Her response was that
technically, depending on what classes one took, on campus requirements
could be fulfilled in as little as two days per week. (That's still too much
for me.) She also pointed out that part of the idea behind offering this
fellowship though was precisely to build community among the PhD cohort.