Wither general education in America? Tom Ehrlich, senior scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, is blue about the Harvard plan for general education. In an essay for Carnegie Perspectives, Ehrlich (formerly president of Indiana University) laments the proposal of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences to substantially water down Harvard’s…
Tag: Academic Commons
History Blog Awards
At last week’s American Historical Association annual meeting the Cliopatria Awards for the best history blogs were announced. Winners are listed below. Check them out. Best Individual Blog: Mark Grimsley’s Blog Them Out of the Stone Age Best Group Blog: K. M. Lawson, Jonathan Dresner, and others, at Frog in a Well Best New Blog:…
New Media at the AHA
After a hiatus for the holiday break, EdWired is back. I spent last weekend in Philadelphia at the American Historical Association’s annual conference. Most of the time I was locked in a hotel room interviewing candidates for a European history position at GMU, but I did manage to get out long enough to chair a…
World Digital Library?
In case you didn’t see Librarian of Congress James Billington’s op ed piece in the Washington Post on November 21, he announces a big initiative to create a World Digital Library in which the great works of print are digitized. Guess who’s helping to pay for it? Google did you say? Give the lucky lady…