Okay, so it is April 1, but the title of this post is no joke. The most recent episode of Digital Campus is up and available for your listening pleasure and our topic is new (and possibly super) models for academic publishing in the humanities. Dan, Tom, and I consider what it means when one…
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Will the Center Hold?
I took part in a very interesting meeting here at Mason the other day. After many years of a pretty hands-off approach to distance or at least distributed education, it seems we have decided to move into this market in a more coordinated way. By “more coordinated” I mean that rather than reactively supporting to…
What History Majors Can Do
Over the years lots of people–many of them my students–have asked me what one can do with a major in history. There are the obvious answers, of course, like teach in the schools, work in public history, go to law school, etc. Early this semester I had the good fortune to be interviewed by a…
My First Mentor
I am a Habsburg historian today because of something that happened on my first day as an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia back in the mid-1970s. Like many students brand new to higher education, I had no idea what courses I ought to choose for that first semester of college and UVa offered…