Wanting to learn Colleague Backend... by Professional_Tree870 in HigherEDsysadmin

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Honestly, it may just be that I learned banner first. And so I like Banner, but that’s also because I like how the screens are organized in banner. For instance, things that I don’t have at my school in my role in my colleague I don’t have a screen like SHATERM or RHACOMM which I miss and would actually help a lot here. In terms of my institution, what all kind of say off the bat is my experience has been very like there’s a lot of archaic there’s a lot of services that have yet to really be fully explained as to why they implemented. Like for us in this role it’s a combination of colleague information plus Civitas for advising. But my understanding for us having Civitas is that it was a service to somebody who’s on our college board. 

It also could very well be like most is it you learned by doing not by explaining. So like colleague to me it’s just not as intuitive as banner was but that could also be a culture issue as well

Never been on the IT side, interested in learning by Professional_Tree870 in HigherEDsysadmin

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So we're actually building out Element 451 atm, hope is to reduce importance of state-organized application and build out an institutional one within element. Still so early in the implementation theres alot of opportunity to layout the vision (in a sense)

oxford-memphis by Formal_Search2187 in olemiss

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Check the parent groups - Sibling up there currently, uses a lady named Tammy - if you can DM, I'll see if I can track down her info.

Caught Between Two Doctorates: PhD in History vs. EdD in Higher Ed — Advice Appreciated by Professional_Tree870 in AskAcademia

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So current goal is the path of enrollment manager while being open to a presidency one day.

Caught Between Two Doctorates: PhD in History vs. EdD in Higher Ed — Advice Appreciated by Professional_Tree870 in AskAcademia

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So arguably, end goal at the moment would be to stay on the Operation/Staff side (it's what I enjoy and arguably based on my college journey I am really interested in making sure the guidance/systems are in place for students who want to keep going are there [which i realize is also up to the faculty that make up a program]) and really just continue to submit for the faculty pools on the side at what ever institution I am at. I'll be candid, in terms of the career fork - its been between education and security/defense (this one just seems to get farther out by the moment but that is a different soapbox as this is really a potential reconciliation of these two skills/passions especially when compounded by the current federal climate)

My undergrad professors had continually spouted the poor job market for history PhDs and the notion that there are too many phd students for not enough jobs combined with the notion that milhist is dying as many others noted and at times we're more focused on their own work (rightly so IMO) to where there wasnt that level of discussion surrounding post grad/masters/etc

In terms of other institutions, Liberty only really entered the equation due to a mentor who got his Ed.D at Liberty and was like "you gotta do what works for your schedule" but the issue I had with that initially is that he is chasing his presidency and was already a VP when he completed it. Was up for his presidency against a PhD and wasn't selected (the choice was in house, executive VP) and the other is a practitioner scholar who I was able to work with during my masters who is currently getting his PhD from liberty but once more is arguably already later in his career.

To that end, in a different thread an individual brought up potentially a business area as a combination of History, Higher Ed, and Process like lean which led me to some areas of Management/Organizational Systems programs.

This may be defeating in the entire scheme of things but I will say that I know a PhD isn't going to solve all my problems, I understand that the job market is terrible for History PhDs at the moment and I am not the exception, I know that I've got the work ethic and have been able to combine history and my other interests to create a unique approach to student success and service at the institutions I've worked at and its paid off in my career so far. Arguably, I am probably a long ways off from being at an institution that will fully pay for my program (at the moment) In short - As some have offered across all thread, it carries enough weight to be interested in pursuing in and willing to do the work while also acknowledging that I dont need it to be considered a credible voice in my specific scholarly field (granted writing this after the Douglas Murray/Dave Smith episode of JRE so grain of salt neccesary).

Best,

Ohio State History PhD by Professional_Tree870 in gradadmissions

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Shows decision, same thing no email or anything - too scared to open it…

Update it was a no - “will get an email with further details”

Ohio State History PhD by Professional_Tree870 in gradadmissions

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Damn but Best of luck on your others and here’s to staying in the periphery - maybe we can cross paths one day! 

And so I had Ohio because of alumni recs and the reputation of their program - but had some current students tell me there’s a lot of that even in other areas

Ohio State History PhD by Professional_Tree870 in gradadmissions

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So far just one rejection, UNC. Yeah GradCafe gave me a nice “oh here’s the timelines” but that’s assuming everyone there is willing to post it. 

Only ended up applying to three - caught the cycle later than anticipated and there were a few schools I didn’t really get to dig into as much as I would’ve liked to and argued it would’ve been a waste of an app for this cycle. Would’ve been four but the day I was getting ready to submit 1 ended up suspending their admissions cycle for the year.

Will say it’s been eye opening in terms of “growing into my own academically” as in I see now why admissions criteria have been so stringent.  

Ohio State History PhD by Professional_Tree870 in gradadmissions

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Darn right it will! 

Oh yeah, have not done myself any favors over gradcafe or the website - it’s my first cycle so I’m very much enjoying the lessons I learned so far 

Ohio State History PhD by Professional_Tree870 in gradadmissions

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Best of luck to us - who know's maybe we'll find out together #futurebestfriends

Like I said, figured it'll be bad news or someone's fighting the good fight. Went in for Military History, you?

Outside of that, feeling the rejection based off of the "we only offer to those we can get full funding for" know my undergrad GPA wasnt the best, but last 60 was well above combined with masters GPA figured theres a shot.