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Received:  by CIOS Mailer; Monday 23 Sep 2002 15:07:36
Date:          Mon, 23 Sep 2002 14:56 -0400
To:            "Multiple recipients of COMGRADS" 
From:          cordova  at wam.umd.edu
Subject:       Re: ComGrads
Dear Anastacia:

I hope this email finds you and all of the remaining members in  
ComGrads well.

I have not participated much in the listserv, but I think it has been a  
good resource. I also think it can be better. I did not participate  
much because I am in many listservs, I was finishing the dissertation,  
and because some of the benefits I derived from the list were in a  
sense in the nature of "reference." That is, somebody provided a link,  
or commented on some interesting work, and as I scanned my email I  
picked up on those bits.  I suspect those same issues are prevalent in  
the minds of other students. But how to make the list serve the needs  
of students in our discipline is a great question that needs to be  
continually asked, thanks for asking it.

Your list of links is an excellent reason. Many students might be  
looking for easily accessible sites with good links. Many students also  
are teaching assistants and thus would benefit from discussion of  
matters pertaining to their teaching, or to links to helpful sites  
about teaching strategies, exercises, etc.  This list was at its best  
when the it held "forums" (inviting a guest faculty "speaker", who  
would pose a statement and then answer questions). Information,  
discussion about publishing, about editing manuscripts, about panels in  
need of members, etc. would also be quite welcome to students.

The problem that I found among my colleagues and fellow students was  
that they did not know about the list. Faculty members did not know  
either and did not promote it. Many students were afraid they would be  
swamped with email. All basic online environment concerns that need to  
be addressed often.  I would suggest re-establishing the forums,  
announcing those broadly (in CRTNET, H-Rhetor, Spectra, at NCA) and  
subscribing all members of the student division/section at NCA as some  
basic steps.

Thanks again Anastacia for your page of links, but also for your  
efforts in sustaining this space.

Best,

Nacho Cordova
ncordova@willamette.edu

On Sunday, September 22, 2002, at 06:37  PM, Anastacia wrote:

> It seems like Norm and Sundeep might be two of the few people on
> ComGrads who pay any attention to it. I am sorry to see that ComGrads,
> which I found indispensable as a Masters student and onward, has now
> become utterly dispensable and, perhaps worse, forgotten. Norm, I
> remember and appreciate all your hard work in making ComGrads active  
> and
> valuable. It was fun.
>
>
> Is there anyone still interested in a listserve for communication
> graduate students or has it outlived its novelty and its usefulness?
> (This will hopefully not end up being a rhetorical question)
>
> Anastacia
>
>
> Also, Thanks Sundeep and Norm for your input on my web page. I'm going
> to deal with the appearance issues soon. Hopefully it will be a bit  
> more
> user friendly and even have some pizzazz. In the meantime, it's
> functional. Thanks again.
>
>
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> Rutgers University
> Communication, Information and Library Studies
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> Homepage
> http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2fndf/anasta/
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> Check this out!!!! Almost 400 links to communication relevant sites.
> http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2fndf/anasta/websites.htm
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