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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:29:25 EDT
- Sender: "Psychology Graduate Students Discussion Group List"
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- From: "Matthew Simpson" <054340@UOTTAWA.BITNET>
- Subject: MISSION STATEMENT: Please Read
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- This is the Mission Statement for the beginning of August.
- It is a bit early, but the timing might be right.
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- This is a posting designed to orient new users to PSYCGRAD, the
- discussion list for graduate students in psychology. This
- message is posted twice monthly. If you are reading this through
- NETNEWS, and you have not subscribed to PSYCGRAD, please
- subscribe and set your mail option to nomail. We like to
- keep a record of the number of graduate students who read the list.
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- Welcome to PSYCGRAD
-
- PSYCGRAD is a list designed as a form of networking for graduate
- students in the field of psychology. We encourage graduate
- students to post here regularly and often. It is the intent of
- the list owner that this list operate so to promote its use as
- the standard of communication among graduate students in
- psychology. All associations and societies in the field of
- psychology are invited to use PSYCGRAD, to no limit, as a
- means of communication among their graduate students.
-
- As such a means of professional graduate student networking, we
- encourage many forms of communication. Announcements regarding
- job openings, conferences, workshops, collective projects, etc.
- are greatly appreciated. Much communication will focus on ideas,
- discussions and debates regarding graduate students experiences
- (research, training, academic growth, faculty-student
- interaction, etc.).
-
- PLEASE
- We would like to sincerely request that you review the brief list
- of guidelines below in order to ensure that we will be able to
- meet our objective. If you find it necessary to suggest to someone
- that he or she increase the amount of attention that is payed to
- one of these guidelines, please mail that individual directly. Do
- not post to the list or the listowner the suggestion.
-
- 1. Please take time to make sure that the subject line of your
- posting most accurately reflects the messages content.
-
- 2. Please be sensitive to when your e-mail might best be
- privately made.
-
- 3. Please, rather than respond to each letter on a given topic,
- read all of the letters on the topic first, then compose your
- answers and send them in one letter.
-
- 4. Please do not flame (publicly attack individuals through the
- content of your postings or e-mail).
-
- 5. Please keep in mind and respect that PSYCGRAD is not a general
- psychology discussion list.
-
- People wishing to contribute to a more general discussion of
- psychology, undergraduate education in psychology, or interested
- in faculty issues in psychology are encourage to post to the
- NETNEWS group sci.psychology.
-
- Individuals who are not graduate students in psychology should
- carefully consider whether their messages are being directed
- toward the appropriate forum.
-
- 6. Pregraduate students wishing information about graduate school
- should reference the APA publication "Graduate Studies in
- Psychology." Please refrain from posting general queries of the
- nature, "I would like information on graduate program which . .
- ." or "I am a pregraduate student in psychology and . . ."
- However, please feel welcome to listen in. If necessary, mail to
- individuals in the program to which you need specific information
- after referencing the APA manual mentioned above.
-
- Thank you for your time and interest in PSYCGRAD.
-
- Sincerely,
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- | _ l _ * Matthew Simpson * BITNET: |
- | \_l_/ * School of Psychology * 054340@uottawa.bitnet |
- | l * 145 Jean Jacques Lussier * INTERNET: |
- | l * Ottawa, Ontario K1N 8P5 * 054340@acadvm1.uottawa.ca |
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