Because August 20-21 was the 40th anniversary of the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, the news media and a number of politicians (especially the U.S. Secretary of State) have been having a field day comparing the events of 1968 to those of 2008 in Georgia. These kinds of historical comparisons are almost always a problem…
Why The Apparatchiks Would Have Loved General Education
Yesterday I was having lunch in our student union when a staff member in our Provost’s office stopped by to say hello and to commiserate about the impending end of summer break. She mentioned that as part of our re-accreditation process we were about to launch another round of soul-searching about our general education curriculum….
CHNM/NEH Fellowship Reminder
The deadline for application for the NEH-sponsored fellowship at CHNM is fast approaching (July 31). If you have been thinking about applying, but still haven’t, think some more, but not too much more, and then send in your application. The original post from dancohen.org reads: The Center for History and New Media at George Mason…
Digital Campus on Digital Scholarship
As a follow up to my series on making digital scholarship count, Tom, Dan, and I spent some time discussing the issue on Digital Campus this week. If you’ve been following my series, then I think you’ll enjoy our discussion because Dan and Tom offer some very interesting and contrasting perspectives on the issues I…