Disagreement
Tim McCormick posted an extremely interesting followup to my last post. If you haven’t read it, you should. My comment on his post ran a bit out of control, and so I’m reproducing it here, in part so...
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Evolving Standards and Practices in Tenure and Promotion Reviews
The following is the text of a talk I gave last week at the University of North Texas’s Academic Leadership Workshop. I’m hoping to develop this further, and so would love any thoughts or responses....
View ArticleAcademia, Not Edu
Last week’s close attention to open access, its development, its present state, and its potential futures, surfaced not only the importance for both the individual scholar and the field at large of...
View ArticleReading, Privacy, and Scholarly Networks
Sarah Bond published a column on Forbes.com this morning on the importance of not for profit scholarly networks. I’m thrilled that she mentioned not only my blog post but also the work we’re doing at...
View ArticleSustainability
As we’ve just announced, the MLA is grateful to have received a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of the next phase of our work on Humanities Commons. I’m personally...
View ArticleThe Commons and the Common Good
Earlier this week, I took a whirlwind trip back to my old New York stomping grounds, where I both had the opportunity to catch up with my colleagues at the MLA and to spend a day talking with the...
View ArticleOn Developing Networked Communities
I dropped what a friend of mine referred to as a “Twitter bomb” this morning, spurred on by a question raised by Tim Hutchings: SH has a more inclusive name than HC, which is a good start! Why separate...
View ArticleStars
Two things that have me thinking this morning: First, the thread from Timothy Burke beginning here: The academic star system of the 1980s and 1990s in the humanities created a group of people who...
View ArticleBehind the Will
I am honored that my colleagues in the College of Arts & Letters asked me to talk a bit about digital humanities and the role that it might play in reorienting the university toward the public...
View ArticleYour Institution Does Not Deserve to Survive
That is: unless you are committed to the survival of the people who make up and serve that institution first, foremost, and above all. * * * There’s an awful lot of “shared sacrifice” and “for the good...
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