Weekly Bookmarks (8/5/12)
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Ray Pastore from UNCW provides a checklist of 10 things to consider for ID masters programs. He doesn’t include creating a portfolio here, although he does talk about getting real experience. What’s the point of real experience with a client if you don’t have a portfolio to prove it?
I was interested in number #5 – “A program should have mostly full time professors.”
I’d say that depends on the adjuncts and how they are used. There should certainly be a strong base of full time faculty, and I despise the use of adjuncts as a purely cost cutting measure.
But I’ve been an adjunct in a program that used adjuncts as a strategic way to involve actual practitioners as a balance to full-time academics, and I think it can be a good way to develop relationships between the academic program and future employers.
If students are going to get jobs as IDs, adjuncts who are IDs in their day job can be a good way to represent the practical and applied.
Yes, absolutely agreed. Ray is definitely much more from the “traditional academic” path, and his list reflects that in several ways. Adjuncts who are active practitioners in the field can be very beneficial for students.