[Poscgrad] grad placement

Tue May 3 12:34:21 PDT 2022

Hi Diogo, I just looked at the program and it looks wonderful!  You’ve clearly done a lot of work and put a lot of thought into this, for which I’m really grateful.  I don’t really see the need for us to meet since it looks like you’ve got everything lined up really well. I’m very happy to have you move forward with this, and glad that we checked in with each other in advance, so that no one ends up replicating any labor. 

I think the best thing to do would be to use the newly-instituted grad listserv (poscgrad at lists.ucr.edu <mailto:poscgrad at lists.ucr.edu>) to advertise it ASAP. I don’t think there is a need to ask who is on the job market; in past years, I’ve found that many relatively junior students like to attend in order to learn about the job market in advance, so I usually just advertise the workshop to all students, and we get a pretty wide range of attendees. 

The only other thing I would add is that we have several departmental alumni who have placed very well in community colleges, so in future it would be great to invite them to speak about their CC placement journey. Happy to share those names if you like.

Thanks again for planning this—I hope it turns into a regular annual event! 

best,
Farah

Farah Godrej
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
Department of Political Science
University of California, Riverside 
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> On May 3, 2022, at 10:53 AM, Diogo Ferrari <diogoferrari at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Farah and Indi,
> 
> Farah, it is excellent that you have been organizing these types of workshops in the past. If I knew it, I would have talked to you much earlier. It would have made things much easier. I knew Indi is the current grad placement direction, so I talked to him about this. I talked to many other colleagues too. I bet someone mentioned to me that you had done JM workshops before, but I probably missed the info in the middle of all the input I got from our colleagues. Sorry!
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> Anyway, let me give you some background, Farah. Indi probably knows all this already. I met Melissa Rogers (from CGU) at the visions in methodology conference hosted at CGU early this year. She came up with the idea of a joint JM workshop, UCG+UCR, for grad students on the market and invited me to help to organize it. I liked the idea a lot.
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> Farah, on your questions, we planned to cover R1, CC, and careers outside academia. I am sending the outline of the workshop we planned for May 27th. Rena Salayeva, a postdoc at GCU is helping us with this, and she created that file. We planned two of them and the one oulined in the file is the first, but I can give more details when we talk.
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> Maybe the three of us could meet this week on Zoom to talk. I can give you all the updates on what we have done and planned so far. It will be easier to do that by zoom than by email.
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> Given that the first is planned for May 27th, we may need to move quickly. As I mentioned in the meeting, I was going to send the plan to all faculty to get feedback and confirm their willingness to participate, but it makes sense if the three of us meet first. Send me some dates you are available. I think a 30 to 45 min meeting should do.
> 
> Thank you both!
> DF
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> Farah Godrej writes:
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> Hi Both,
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> It is good that we all get on the same page about this.
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> Just for context: as long as I have been DGS, I have regularly held a job market workshop around this time in the spring quarter. In recent years, have started adding a separate workshop for those interested in community college jobs. Last year I did the community college workshop under the aegis of colloquium, which I was teaching in spring (I had to make an emergency trip to India in May/June so I don’t think I did the R1 workshop, but it’s the only year we’ve skipped it).
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> Do I understand correctly that 1) you are both planning a joint workshop with folks at CGU for grad students on the market; and 2) that it will be targeted mainly for the 4-year R1 job market?
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> If so, it probably makes sense to divide the labor rather than replicate it. I would happily just move forward with the CC workshop later this quarter, if you are going to do the R1/4-year workshop.
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> A note on my approach to these: I usually invite several of our colleagues (preferably more junior ones who have been on the market more recently) to share their thoughts, colloquium-style. I also ask if they are comfortable sharing sample cover letters. Then it ends up as a Q&A session, with students raising their concerns, questions, etc. It’s worth noting that we also have a job market handbook that was co-authored by several people during Ben’s tenure as DGS (attached), which I ask everyone to read in advance.
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> I can imagine that the kinds of things CGU faculty would tell their own students wouldn’t vary too much from what we would tell ours. That said, I think it would be useful and healthy to have at least some UCR faculty involved as panelists in any joint workshop. In past years, I have had David PB, Marissa, Ajay, Noel, Steven and Kim involved as panelists.
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> Let me know your thoughts, Farah
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> Farah Godrej Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies Department of Political Science University of California, Riverside (she/her/hers)
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> On May 2, 2022, at 12:31 PM, Indridi Indridason <indridi.indridason at ucr.edu> wrote:
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> Hi Diogo and Farah,
> 
> I guess Jenn's decision to create a graduate placement director went a little bit under the radar but I thought I'd just mention that I had a couple of meetings with students in the fall - one just a chat to answer some of their questions, the second was with a former UCR graduate who works at Meta. I think I already told Diogo about those. I knew about Diogo's workshop but not about Farah's workshops in the spring. At any rate, it would, of course, make sense to coordinate.
> 
> At any rate, I almost emailed the grad students this weekend to find out who is planning on being on the market but, thankfully I guess, got distracted since it is probably better to coordinate communications with them as well. I guess it would be good to figure out if there is a natural division of labor between the UCR-CGU workshop and the UCR meetings? At any rate, I'm happy to help in any capacity… but I also don't want to step anyone's toes as I think it is great that we actually have multiple people interested in helping our students on the job market.
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> Best,
> 
> Indridi
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