Trend toward grassroots information brokering

Erik, ouch. I do not sequence or assign students. Therefore, your turning to your SSC is the best option to resolve this. In fact, I had not thought about the impact of the holiday season on the internship field work requirement of forty hours. Again, I have no control over the sequencing of courses. Once more, bringing this to the attention of your SSC is the best option to provide feedback to JIU. Meanwhile, if you are pursuing work in public policy, which has a huge attracting to this writer (see his www.info-pros.info ), you may be able to contact a legislator, local, state, or national about doing a policy "white paper" for him or her. A "white paper" is simply a background investigation of an issue. As a rule, such information appears in public documents, so there is little chance of your violating privacy. In fact, as I type this, more and more the internal message building in your humble servant here is to recommend that you do this. For instance, adult education overlaps with workforce development! I have a friend here in Wisconsin who is now second in command at our state workforce development agency, a $1-billion / year operation! There may be workforce development research opportunities right on your doorstep. In fact, the agency in your state may welcome somebody who is willing and able to conduct some grassroots research for it. As a rule, most of white paper research occurs at the state level - for reasons of funding - and national of course too. The opportunity to carve out a topic at the county level, regional level, town level, etc. ought to be wide, wide-open and give you special skilling in a whole area of professional opportunity: information brokering. See www.aiip.org for information about the premier professional group for white paper researchers, to which this writer belongs. Let me know what you think of this option. Dr. Rux