This past weekend I attended the national conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies in Salt Lake City. In addition to the usual conference activities of presenting a paper, serving as the discussant on a panel, and doing a lot of schmoozing with colleagues, I attended my first meeting of the…
Tag: Academic Commons
Rewriting a mission
Here at George Mason University we are in the process of splitting our College of Arts and Sciences in two, thereby creating a College of Mathematics and Science and a College of Liberal Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CLAHS). The reasons for this are long and not so interesting. What is interesting is that for…