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		<title>Spring 2012 Dates</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome back to school, graduate students. Here are some links and some dates for you to use for your planning this spring semester: University Official Calendar http://www.depts.ttu.edu/officialpublications/calendar/11-12calendar/11-12detailed.php Graduate School Calendar http://www.depts.ttu.edu/gradschool/current/Deadlines.php Our key dates: MATC mid course portfolio ready for evaluation next week (the week of Jan 23rd) &#8212; formative evaluation for MATC students who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tcrttu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3787085&amp;post=355&amp;subd=tcrttu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waivers, Awards, and Reductions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the week just before a semester begins, there is always the urgent email or call from students who are worried that their waivers haven&#8217;t showed up on their account.  While it is indeed troubling, this situation is not dire &#8212; it always gets fixed. Philosophically speaking, we did not admit you to our graduate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tcrttu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3787085&amp;post=353&amp;subd=tcrttu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Do You Want From Life?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2011 18:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This from an online doctoral student illustrates, I think, a fundamental misunderstanding about doctoral education: Offer more courses that help students skills related to web pages and other technologies. I think there is too much emphasis on rhetoric, and not enough focus on technology. Many of us will graduate with significant student loans to pay [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tcrttu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3787085&amp;post=273&amp;subd=tcrttu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Faculty Position in Technical Communication and Rhetoric</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 22:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Texas Tech University seeks a specialist in Technical Communication and Rhetoric. Open rank. Tenure-line.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tcrttu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3787085&amp;post=351&amp;subd=tcrttu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Citation Obsession? Get Over It!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Citation Obsession? Get Over It! by Kurt Schick, Chronicle of Higher Education, 10-30-2011 &#8230;we should abandon trivial roadblocks so that students can write more often in more classes. Recent research demonstrates how effectively and efficiently writing can improve comprehension of content in any discipline. Writing also enables students to practice analysis, synthesis, and other skills [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tcrttu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3787085&amp;post=349&amp;subd=tcrttu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Grad Applications Reviewed Yearly, effective immediately</title>
		<link>http://tcrttu.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/grad-applications-reviewed-yearly-effective-immediately/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Effective Fall 2011, the graduate program will no longer take applications twice a year. Beginning with the January 15, 2012, deadline, we will look at applications ONLY every January 15th. This new policy applies to online and on-campus programs, to the MATC and PhD equally.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tcrttu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3787085&amp;post=347&amp;subd=tcrttu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Curriculum Survey Results, Fall 2011</title>
		<link>http://tcrttu.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/curriculum-survey-results-fall-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://tcrttu.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/curriculum-survey-results-fall-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2011 17:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Results of the annual survey of the graduate student body on curriculum, logistics, culture, and strategy is now available.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tcrttu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3787085&amp;post=322&amp;subd=tcrttu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CRN&#8217;s for Fall 2011 Variable Credit Courses</title>
		<link>http://tcrttu.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/crns-for-fall-2011-variable-credit-courses/</link>
		<comments>http://tcrttu.wordpress.com/2011/07/24/crns-for-fall-2011-variable-credit-courses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:49:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Section numbers and CRN&#8217;s for Fall 2011 variable credit courses: 8000, x21, 23764: dissertation hours, online, non-Texas students only 8000, d21, 21742: dissertation hours, online Texas residents only 8000, 027, 22937: dissertation hours, all local doctoral students 7000, 027, 22936: everyone preparing for quals 5000, 027, 14858: Professional development hours<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tcrttu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3787085&amp;post=318&amp;subd=tcrttu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Approach to May Billing</title>
		<link>http://tcrttu.wordpress.com/2011/04/23/new-approach-to-may-billing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 18:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After multiple years of requesting that Student Business Services bill you for the May Workshop, after years of trying different techniques for billing a zero-credit course, after one year of working with University College&#8217;s conference services, I believe we have finally arrived at a reasonable means of  charging you for the 2-weeks in May for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tcrttu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3787085&amp;post=312&amp;subd=tcrttu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cost of the PhD</title>
		<link>http://tcrttu.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/the-cost-of-the-phd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I often get requests to  provide someone with the &#8220;cost of the degree,&#8221; and while I understand that there are some schools, some disciplines, and some systems that treat the degree as one thing with a set price, it is certainly not our model.  Why?  Because there are so many variables for a given individual&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tcrttu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3787085&amp;post=309&amp;subd=tcrttu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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