![[The Letter]](/images/officialRIT.jpg)
After a long wait, I am excited to announce that I have accepted a visiting professorship at RIT’s School of Print Media for the 2006/2007 academic year. And the news gets better — barring no unforeseen circumstances, in September of 2007 I will automatically move into a tenure track position at RIT. And by automatically I mean without having to participate in another academic search cycle. From that point on, I have approximately six years to earn a PhD.
This has been in the works for quite a while. However, I’ve been afraid to blog about it until it was a done deal. If this had fallen through, I’d have been crushed. Thankfully, the letter finally arrived this morning, and I personally delivered the signed contract to the Dean this afternoon. I am on cloud nine about this.
Aspects of it will be tough. Seven years (counting this year) isn’t a lot of time to complete a PhD while still carrying a full course load. I’ll be diving into the application process this year and evaluating a number of programs in the Western NY area in the months to come. And RIT has promised to assist me with the PhD process, which is a huge help.
Thanks for being patient with the lack of updates. There are still some surprises to come, but I am relieved to finally be past this one.
July 30th, 2006 at 8:38 pm
Matt:
Many congratulations. This is awesome news!!!
Glenn
July 31st, 2006 at 11:25 am
Congrats!
July 31st, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Maybe you should take a closer look at some of your spam…
“Like your post. Buy degrees: BS, MS, PhD, JD”
You could have a PhD within a matter of minutes.
Congrats Matt!
July 31st, 2006 at 2:46 pm
congrats… it’s nice to finally get that shit locked in. bware, when it rains, it pours.
July 31st, 2006 at 8:58 pm
That’s good stuff Matt! Can’t say I’m surprised.
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:46 pm
Hurrah!
August 5th, 2006 at 10:45 pm
Woohoo!! Congratulations!
August 10th, 2006 at 1:31 am
Congrats Matt! I hope you’re doin’ the happy dance all round town. Hopefully I’ll get to see you sometime soon!
August 10th, 2006 at 10:47 am
Does this mean you going to start blogging more about print, new media publishing, and cultural anthropology and less about news you can’t share? ;)
August 14th, 2006 at 10:01 am
Low Blow Adam.
Yes it does. - Matt
August 16th, 2006 at 1:06 pm
Hey Matt,
congrats on the news. We’re very happy for you. Hopefully we’ll hear from you soon.
Josh Renee and Colin