Sorry for the delay in this announce­ment, there have been many mit­i­gat­ing circumstances.

The com­puter was smart. I have been offered a posi­tion in Cornell’s Anthro­pol­ogy PhD Pro­gram with funding.

Some of you already knew this. Others guessed it. For a vari­ety of rea­sons I needed to keep it under wraps until I had the chance to talk with some key people. I’m really excited! Blown away in fact. I’ll be work­ing on Cit­i­zen Jour­nal­ism in the US. I’ve already been back and forth a few times to Ithaca and this really seems to be the pro­gram for me.

As to why not much blog­ging has gone on, there’s always a bal­ance. With good comes bad. Dre’s had another lupus flare and spent time in Rochester Gen­eral Hos­pi­tal. We keep learn­ing more about this dis­ease and with that comes a lot of frus­tra­tions. Today we found out that things are a little more com­plex than we had thought. And right now that’s weigh­ing a bit on my mind.

We’re both really excited about the future and there’s lots more to come over the next few weeks.

Aaron just e-mailed me the arti­cle from RIT’s Uni­ver­sity News. Obvi­ously I’m really happy to see this. From pre­vi­ous post­ings you know that I felt Destler was the better can­di­date for the future of RIT. That’s what most of the on campus fac­ulty believed. And that’s what many alumni believed. I am happy that the Board agreed.

In ear­lier state­ments I said I was con­cerned that the deci­sion was already made. I’m extemely thank­ful to be proven wrong. This process has been very trans­par­ent, and I com­pli­ment the board on making it so.

I’m also thank­ful to every­one who wrote to the board to express thier opinions.

I believe that the future of RIT has never looked brighter.