After a long wait, I am excited to announce that I have accepted a visiting professorship at RIT’s School of Print Media for the 2006/2007 academic year. And the news gets better — barring no unforeseen circumstances, in September of 2007 I will automatically move into a tenure track position at RIT. And by automatically I mean without having to participate in another academic search cycle. From that point on, I have approximately six years to earn a PhD.
This has been in the works for quite a while. However, I’ve been afraid to blog about it until it was a done deal. If this had fallen through, I’d have been crushed. Thankfully, the letter finally arrived this morning, and I personally delivered the signed contract to the Dean this afternoon. I am on cloud nine about this.
Aspects of it will be tough. Seven years (counting this year) isn’t a lot of time to complete a PhD while still carrying a full course load. I’ll be diving into the application process this year and evaluating a number of programs in the Western NY area in the months to come. And RIT has promised to assist me with the PhD process, which is a huge help.
Thanks for being patient with the lack of updates. There are still some surprises to come, but I am relieved to finally be past this one.
Matt:
Many congratulations. This is awesome news!!!
Glenn
Congrats!
Maybe you should take a closer look at some of your spam…
“Like your post. Buy degrees: BS, MS, PhD, JD”
You could have a PhD within a matter of minutes.
Congrats Matt!
congrats… it’s nice to finally get that shit locked in. bware, when it rains, it pours.
That’s good stuff Matt! Can’t say I’m surprised.
Hurrah!
Woohoo!! Congratulations!
Congrats Matt! I hope you’re doin’ the happy dance all round town. Hopefully I’ll get to see you sometime soon!
Does this mean you going to start blogging more about print, new media publishing, and cultural anthropology and less about news you can’t share? ;)
Low Blow Adam.
Yes it does. – Matt
Hey Matt,
congrats on the news. We’re very happy for you. Hopefully we’ll hear from you soon.
Josh Renee and Colin