Carrots

So it looks like I am good at giving people carrots. Not the orange, vegetable kind, the intriguing idea kind. I had a meeting with a colleague today where we were supposed to practice a data management interview. The idea behind it was to get us fmailiar with the question bank and be able to facilitate this kind of conversation. We did eventually get to that, but what was more interesting was the conversation we were having around data management. We discussed the differences in our respective liaisonships and the types of people we were getting traction with. I shared with him the kinds of targets I was going after in terms of what I would like to see in the curriculum and standards for PhD graduates and their work.

It was a productive discussion because I got to see how this idea would affect a department that was entirely different than what I experienced. I got to see how it would translate to how that discipline would incorporate these principles, and how they were resistant to parts of it. And I could see how we would be able to work together more.

If any of these ideas play out, then our future will be bright and we will be heavily integrated into the curriculum.