QotD: Midway Through
What's one thing that you hope to do or accomplish before the end of this year?
Finish my MLIS! No big surprise there, as my expected graduation date has been December 2006 all along. But the powers that be decided to change our culminating requirements from this to this, all at the last minute, without giving some of us old-timers in the program ample time to prepare.
So, I'm a little worried here. Um, just a bit.
Comments
That doesn't seem fair to change culminating requirements for students who've already been in a program for quite some time. I'm a graduate student at SFSU, and they stick to the requirements dictated by the Catalog from the year that you were admitted.
Can you challenge the change in requirements? That does seem fair at all, but then again, academia isn't always fair.
A bunch of us thought it didn't seem fair at all, either, and wanted to challenge it. What we were told was that since the change supposedly reflects competencies that we should have learned regardless of the courses we chose, then we should be able to complete the new requirements. Perhaps not in a single semester, though, and *of course* we're welcome to pay for the culminating class again and re-take it until we demonstrate satisfactory competency... Grrrr!
I'm just trying to stay focused on being *done*, whatever it takes.
My co-worker is also going through this in the Fall. Pretty damn crappy if you ask me. I don't complain about my CE any longer (SJSU MLIS 2003).
Just wanted to say "Good Luck." I just joined vox today and found your lovely shoes.
Tricia