IKNS First Residency Over

Well, our first residency for the Columbia IKNS program ended yesterday.  I already miss everybody, although we're starting to make all sorts of online connections, and there's the course website and an IKNS community site.

I'm still coming down from all my excitement about the program and the people involved.  Larry Prusak spoke with us on multiple occasions during the week, is an Advisor for the program, and will be teaching one of our courses.  He's an author (or co-author) of numerous books in the field.

Thomas Stewart is the author of the first book we read for class, Intellectual Capital, one of the faculty advisors, and he is an amazing speaker in person.  Lots of short stories throughout his speech.  Little bits of unexpected humor everywhere.  And, like all the other faculty and speakers, lots of energy for his topic.

We can also count as faculty Guy St. Clair, Kate Pugh, Linda Stoddart, Joshua Goldblas, Leala Abbott, Jeanne Harris and more.  Guy Scalzi with Aspen Advisers is another faculty advisor.  In addition to authors Prusak and Stewart, both Kate Pugh and Jeanne Harris have authored recent books in the field.

We also have an extremely diverse and talented cohort, all of whom I'm excited to begin and continue this journey with for the next 16 months.  It's going to be a lot of work, but thank goodness I find all this fun! :)  Stay tuned...