The selection of readings for today’s class present an interesting and important point of view when considering the state of employment in the academy, and subsequently, what skills the […]
Are you a Digitial Native? (Survey)
James’s post The Pleasure of the Hypertext and Anderson’s response to it made me curious: Do you consider yourself a “digital native?” Why?
Baby Steps, Octopus
I was struck by the abundance of ambitious plans for reforming graduate study of the humanities. Whether it included inculcating critical vocationalism (Jay and Graff), expanding curricula (Grafton and Grossman), […]
Graduate Education and Proposed Reforms: The Cold, Hard Facts
For the past few generations, college graduates have been attending graduate programs in order to guarantee themselves a better and successful future and to increase their chances of landing their […]
Tenure is Not the Only Playmate in the Neighborhood
There are different careers available and presently forming for the newly-minted PhD. Many argue that higher education, as an institution, lacks a realistic understanding of diminishing tenure positions, a reduction […]
Response (and a short rant rant?): Grafton and Grossman
While I haven’t finished all of the readings for tonight’s class, I wanted to comment particularly on Grafton and Grossman’s piece on the reformation of attitudes towards graduate education in […]
Reforming Graduate Education through abolition of tenure
This is a very nascent thought, and should not be viewed as a long-held, deeply thought upon position, but I cannot understand why the abolition of tenure is not considered […]
Thoughts on THATCamp NYC 2012
I attended THATCamp NYC this weekend, and it was a great time, and I met some cool people, and really got to know some classmates. The organizers did a great […]
Open Systems, Open Minds
It was interesting to hear Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s narrative on how she became involved in digital scholarship–it arose from a natural desire to share thoughts and ideas more immediately and more […]
Planned Obsolescence: Terrific. Now What?
In Planned Obsolescence, Kathleen Fitzpatrick poses some bold goals. Discussing authorship, she provides these dictums: “We need to think less about completed products and more about texts-in-process; less about individual […]