{"id":2863,"date":"2013-05-23T16:17:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T21:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2013-06-04T18:57:12","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T23:57:12","slug":"cuny-sps-here-i-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/2013\/05\/23\/cuny-sps-here-i-come\/","title":{"rendered":"CUNY SPS here I come!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2864\" alt=\"SPS Faculty and Staff\" src=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130523_090146-1024x768.jpg\" width=\"430\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130523_090146-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/20130523_090146-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 430px) 100vw, 430px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not many people know this yet, but starting in the Fall of 2013, I will be taking over the Academic Directorship of the <a title=\"Communications and Media program \" href=\"http:\/\/sps.cuny.edu\/programs\/ba_commedia\">Communications and Media (B.A.) program at the CUNY School of Professional Studies<\/a>\u00a0(SPS). It is a four year online degree program that\u00a0offers an interdisciplinary focus on issues related to communications and the convergence between new and traditional media.<\/p>\n<p>I had my first meeting today with the Deans and the other Academic Directors at SPS. In truth, I was a bit overwhelmed by the enthusiastic reception that I received from everyone. I was offered the position a few month back and jumped at the opportunity because I believe that online programs are destined to play a big part in the future of education.<\/p>\n<p>I was very happy and excited to meet my new colleagues and I look forward to helping them enhance an already amazing series of programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will be taking over the Academic Directorship of the Communications and Media (B.A.) program at the CUNY School of Professional Studies (SPS). It is a four year online degree program that offers an interdisciplinary focus on issues related to communications and the convergence between new and traditional media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[373,342,9],"tags":[51,334,363,362],"class_list":["post-2863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cuny-sps","category-future-of-education","category-laguardia","tag-cuny","tag-online-instruction","tag-school-of-professional-studies","tag-sps"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesrichardson.net\/jtalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}