[game_edu] Where to post academic job offers?

[Tim Langdell]

Scott, you make some excellent points. And to be clear, the reason our 
current Videogame MFA has over half its classes on-site is exactly for the 
reasons you indicate. And our MFA in Digital Cinema uses the one-month 
residency model for similar reasons and with very good results. All good 
food for thought, and thank goodness being involve in games tends to have us 
naturally thinking about creative out-of-the-box solutions!

Tim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roberts, Scott" <sroberts at cti.depaul.edu>
To: "IGDA Game Education Listserv" <game_edu at igda.org>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 8:19 AM
Subject: Re: [game_edu] Where to post academic job offers?



> Brenda makes an excellent point, and not only is work/research possible, 

> but it's encouraged.  If you're in a tenure-track position, or want to be 

> in that position, your creative research is vital.

>

> Depending on the institution, you can receive labs for game development 

> and also hire students to help on your research projects.  It's allowed me 

> to work on a non-commercial project that involves experimental 

> input/display, and provides a valuable experience for students.

>

>

> The reason I believe that terminal degrees and tenure are important for 

> this area is due to the academic freedom that it allows.  Not all 

> educational institutions have tenure, but having long-term job security is 

> definitely a plus [knock on wood.]

>

> For those of you who are considering this, possibly down the road, you 

> should do some research and talk to tenured faculty at a variety of 

> institutions.  Just receiving a PhD/MFA may be enough to get you hired at 

> some schools, but the reputation/quality of the degree program does affect 

> your hiring and your pursuit of tenure.  Tim, your idea of an online-only 

> terminal degree sounds interesting, but I think keeping some residency 

> requirement will increase the value of your degree for those seeking 

> academic careers.  To be honest, I'd be concerned about whether an 

> online-only degree will be looked at in the same light, at least for the 

> near future.  There's value in having alternative structures that 

> encourage long-distance students, such as working it out so that they can 

> periodically travel to the school for 2 days of solid class/mentor 

> meetings.  I think Brenda mentioned something like this in the panel at 

> GDC.

>

> Scott

>

>

>

> Scott Roberts

> Associate Professor

> DePaul University

> sroberts at cti.depaul.edu

>

>

>

> ________________________________________

> From: game_edu-bounces at igda.org [game_edu-bounces at igda.org] On Behalf Of 

> Brenda Brathwaite [bbrathwa at scad.edu]

> Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 8:16 PM

> To: IGDA Game Education Listserv

> Subject: Re: [game_edu] Where to post academic job offers?

>

> This is such a wonderful thread. I've been reading it while on the road, 

> and I have thoroughly enjoyed it.

>

> There's a point I've yet to see made, and that's about the value of 

> academia to practicing game designers. While I was full-time in the 

> industry, I was in a lead role for nearly 15 years. During that time, I 

> had precious little time to stop and study and think beyond the bounds of 

> whatever commercial project I was working on. Academia has allowed me 

> tremendous freedom to study games on a deep level, and it has made me a 

> better designer, I think.

>

> If any of you caught my OneHundredDogs presentation at the Game Design 

> Challenge this year, I would credit a lot of its funkiness and innovative 

> components to being an academic/industry person, and I don't know that I 

> would have come up with something like that otherwise.

>

> Brenda Brathwaite

> ---------------------------------------------------

> Game Designer

> Chair, Interactive Design and Game Development

> Savannah College of Art and Design

> www.scad.edu

> blog: bbrathwaite.wordpress.com

>

>

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