Scholarship

Alternatives to Grad school for the unemployed graduate:

Jun 9th, 2009 | By brownboyrocks | Category: Gator 411, Scholarship

So in Seth’s Blog (no clue who he is or why he’s important) he gives a few ideas for the unemployed college graduate to keep busy after college. At UH-D (I may be wrong) our students usually have less troubles finding a job because they are already working, but it’s a helpful list either way. [...]



Academic Conference Alerts Website

Feb 26th, 2009 | By brownboyrocks | Category: Gator 411, News, Scholarship

I’ve been thinking about different ways to network myself into Grad school, and one of the way’s I’m doing that is to start attending academic conferences. I am presenting a paper at this year’s UHD gender conference, Policing Gender, but I hope to start attending conferences around the country. These are not that easy to [...]



Identity questions.

Feb 16th, 2009 | By brownboyrocks | Category: Politics, Scholarship

Identity is one of the massive subjects I would like to further study. I’ve done basic research on the notion of identity, and now I find myself questioning the role of identity in just almost every possible context. Most recently (if you follow my sparsely updated blog) I have focused on the identity of UH-D, [...]



Board of Regents Unanimously Vote to Delay the Name Change

Feb 8th, 2009 | By brownboyrocks | Category: Family Life, Gator 411, News, Politics, Scholarship

Friday the University of Houston- System Board of Regents met to discuss and vote on the proposed name for what is currently the University of Houston-Downtown. The meeting began with an open forum of speakers both in support and opposition to the idea. I spoke against changing the name as did Dr. Michele Moosally. Dean [...]



Possible Names for UHD

Dec 19th, 2008 | By brownboyrocks | Category: Gator 411, News, Scholarship

So the UH-System Board of Regents voted to change the name of my school, UH-Downtown. I am ambivalent about the idea. I can see both the good and bad about having a new identity for this growing institution.
I would like to know, however, why President Max Castillo failed to inform the University community about [...]