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« on: May 04, 2010, 08:18:27 AM » |
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Anyone know anything about this? The Clute Institute for Academic Researchand their conferences? Should presenting at their conferences or publishing in their journals be a source of pride? |
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« Reply #1 on: May 04, 2010, 01:29:13 PM » |
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So no one has ever heard of Clute? Well, that in itself tells me something...
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« Reply #2 on: May 04, 2010, 01:34:21 PM » |
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Ron Clute is the owner or whatever of this group. He has a PhD (in accounting, I think) and publishes a number of journals. I believe he is the editor in chief of all or most of them. The boards of some of these journals have reasonably accomplished senior scholars on them.
I don't know anything about the conferences.
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« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2010, 01:46:50 PM » |
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I also have never heard of this. I looked for some of the journals in the catalog of my university library -- nothing available here. Potential red flags for me include a list of conference locations that look like nice destinations. Registration fee is $375 -- doesn't seem terribly excessive, but my own disciplinary association conferences are quite a bit cheaper.
In their favor, their web site is up front with the use of the word "company" -- they don't appear to be trying to pretend they are a non-profit like a certain Oxford group.
If you are on tenure-track, I would get advice from people in your field before putting money/effort into this one.
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« Reply #4 on: May 04, 2010, 01:54:17 PM » |
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The journal articles appear to be available online: http://www.cluteinstitute-onlinejournals.com/Some of these journals have been around for 15 years or more. Some are newish. Some of the journals have submission fees, some don't. All (I think) have page charges for publication. |
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« Reply #5 on: May 04, 2010, 05:33:33 PM » |
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I also have never heard of this. I looked for some of the journals in the catalog of my university library -- nothing available here. Potential red flags for me include a list of conference locations that look like nice destinations. Registration fee is $375 -- doesn't seem terribly excessive, but my own disciplinary association conferences are quite a bit cheaper.
In their favor, their web site is up front with the use of the word "company" -- they don't appear to be trying to pretend they are a non-profit like a certain Oxford group.
If you are on tenure-track, I would get advice from people in your field before putting money/effort into this one.
I'm not interested in going to one of their conferences myself. I'm curious about them because our Education School just advertised the fact that one of their faculty had presented at one of their conferences and published in one of their journals. Since this is a faculty member who has indeed presented at ORT (a fact that the Ed School also proudly boasted about), I was wondering whether this was a step up. It seems less of a rip off, but no more academic. |
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« Reply #6 on: May 04, 2010, 06:14:27 PM » |
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I also have never heard of this. I looked for some of the journals in the catalog of my university library -- nothing available here. Potential red flags for me include a list of conference locations that look like nice destinations. Registration fee is $375 -- doesn't seem terribly excessive, but my own disciplinary association conferences are quite a bit cheaper.
In their favor, their web site is up front with the use of the word "company" -- they don't appear to be trying to pretend they are a non-profit like a certain Oxford group.
If you are on tenure-track, I would get advice from people in your field before putting money/effort into this one.
I'm not interested in going to one of their conferences myself. I'm curious about them because our Education School just advertised the fact that one of their faculty had presented at one of their conferences and published in one of their journals. Since this is a faculty member who has indeed presented at ORT (a fact that the Ed School also proudly boasted about), I was wondering whether this was a step up. It seems less of a rip off, but no more academic. Definitely better than ORT, but not as good as a conference in one's real field. |
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« Reply #7 on: May 04, 2010, 11:35:21 PM » |
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... Potential red flags for me include a list of conference locations that look like nice destinations... I have no pride when it comes to conferences. I pick the ones in the nicest locations I can find as long as my uni will pay for it. BTW, congrats on the new family member! |
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« Reply #8 on: May 05, 2010, 08:12:23 AM » |
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I have never been to any Clute conferences. However, I do not see the harm in having conferences in nice places. Our national association tries its best to do that (given our limitations - need big hotels). We have been to Hawaii, and regularly go to San Francisco, San Diego (one of my favorites), Boston, NYC, DC, Orlando, Toronto, etc.
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« Reply #9 on: May 05, 2010, 08:48:13 AM » |
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I haven't received information from Clute in quite some time. When I was at my previous institution, I did receive unsolicited contacts from Clute regarding their conferences.
If my vague memory serves, these conferences were expensive, open to almost any discipline in a broad field, and unwaveringly in very nice places.
There's probably better conferences out there for your academic dollar. If, however, you want to go somewhere nice on the university dime, that's another story.
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« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2010, 12:16:37 AM » |
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I keep thinking this thread is for the Cute Institute for Academic Research, and then being disappointed when I click on the title.
What would a Cute Institute look like, anyway? Would they be fuzzy animals with big eyes, anime-style, in lab coats conducting tests? or would it be the academic research which is of cute things, like rainbows and unicorns?
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