I'd appreciate feedback on the following tactic for identifying graduate
programs. The context is this: Students have wondered (to me and other members
of this list) how to find programs appropriate to their interests. One means is
to look in directories for programs with the relevant label. But there may be
right many other potential graduate mentors working on problems of the sort the
student is interested in who are not associated with programs having that
label. So another suggestion is to identify individuals who are currently
engaged in research on the problem of interest, and apply to the programs
(irrespective of label) those researchers are affiliated with.
Here's another possibility that occurred to me and I'm curious what others of
you might think about it. The APA Monitor and the APS Observer run lots and
lots of ads for new faculty with specializations often listed. If a student
finds an advertisement for a new faculty member in an area he/she is interested
in, it would seem to follow that the advertising department would offer
instruction in that area (provided, of course, that the department does
graduate education at all). So applications to the program advertising for the
new faculty member in the specified specialty area might expand the
possiblities for students attempting to find appropriate places to go.
Granted, there are some obvious drawbacks to this (e.g., the department may
change its mind about that specialty, or might not find anyone, or....). But I
can imagine a new faculty member coming into a department just delighted to
find applications from prospective graduate students waiting for him/her.
'Preciate any thoughts...
Pat Cabe
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Patrick Cabe, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
University of North Carolina at Pembroke
One University Drive
Pembroke, NC 28372-1510
(910) 521-6630
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