MET Professor Quoted on Juggling College, Home, and Work Life
Given the challenges of balancing grad school and other responsibilities, it’s important to be committed right from the start. That’s the advice Richard G. Maloney, PhD, assistant professor and director ad interim of Metropolitan College’s Arts Administration Program gives prospective students in the 2015 issue of Graduate College & Universities. “In my experience, self-awareness and self-management are the key,” he says. “You have to understand what your needs are and respect yourself and your needs enough to advocate for them.” Elsewhere in the article “Top 10 Tips for Juggling Family, Work, and Grad School,” Dr. Maloney suggests a strategy for when a workplace problem makes studying difficult: “If (the issue) is somewhat connected to the material in class, ask your professor if you can present it to the class for discussion. Your classmates will get to practice applying their business skills to a ‘real’ problem and may come up with a potential solution.”