Job Hunt

I thought I'd give you a brief update of what's going on with Michael's proposal defense. It is the next big milestone to the completion of his PhD.

At this point he is considered ABD (all but dissertation). Schools don't want to interview or recruit someone that doesn't at least have his idea defended. If you don't have the proposal defended, then how serious are you? Will you have it done in time to come to work here for the 2007-2008 school year?

Setting the date and successfully defending his idea, definitions, research proposal, method, model.... etc is critical to the job hunt - not just finishing his PhD.Michael got the go ahead to set the date. Tuesday when he meets with one of the co-chairs (Dr. Wilcox) they'll set a date. Dr. Arnette sent him a note on Friday to go ahead and make that happen.

After the date is picked. Michael can send a happy update to the schools he's interested in - announcing his date, reminding them how wonderful he is and his newly submitted papers for review. In the running right now we have, in preferential order:

University of Michigan
Loyola College of Maryland (in Baltimore)
(Tied for third place....)
Bucknell (Near Williamsport in PA)
Univ. of Colorado - Colorado Springs
Radford University - Radford, VA

If all goes well, I'll be pregnant and won't work after the baby comes. Wouldn't that be nice!