Greetings, members, I have decided to revisit the great classics of the Western Canon and am reading through Aristotle's Metaphysics. I would like to offer the following quote for members' meditation: 'And these things, the most universal, are on the whole the hardest for men to know; for they are farthest from the senses. And the most exact of the sciences are those which deal most with first principles; for those which involve fewer principles are more exact than those which involve additional principles.' — Aristotle, Metaphysics, Book 1, Chapter 2 Aristotle's proposition bears heavily on the dissertation process at two points: (i) when clarifying the conceptual and phenomenological architecture of your study and (ii) downstream during the interpretation of your data. If we follow Aristotle, then the dissertation ought to involve the essential and aspire to not only address the local implication of the problem space (or warrant) established in your proposal, but to order your findings towards the greater erudition of your field of study. Just some food for thought.

Hi, Everyone! I received feedback from my methodologist, Dr. Duncan, last night. Since I put all of my work in the dissertation template Liberty gives us, Dr. Duncan reviewed all of section one up to and ending with the literature review. Of the 22 comments he left, only 5 were specific to and on my literature review.

Greetings Members, We are pleased to announce our End-of-Semester Colloquium series. Attached you will find a graphic outlining the sessions and the theme for each session. All Members are cordially invited to attend. If you have a moment, do give the following post a like or share on LinkedIn and let any other doctoral candidates in your network know about the session. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7452352070428463104/?originTrackingId=IFjuz1X3DmGtYMl7iKYIqQ%3D%3D

Hi, team! Great news! I submitted my literature review last night, and I only got 2 revision requests from my chair. A request to capitalize something and a request to strengthen a citation on one sentence. Once I make those revisions, I’ll resubmit, and I will see what the methodologist says. I’ll keep y’all posted. Much Success!

Greetings Collegium Members, Our next colloquium session will be held on Saturday, April 18th at 2:00 PM ET. The topic of this session is 'Methodological Formation'. The session is on the calendar with the Zoom link. If your schedule allows, do attend the session and be sure to let any other doctoral candidates in your network know about the session. Here is the link to the LinkedIn event: https://www.linkedin.com/events/7447657057178095616?viewAsMember=true. As always, please like and repost to let others know. On another note, since we halfway through the semester, I'd like to do an individual check-in with everyone at some point this month, so message me with your availability. -Ryan