Category: Schools
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What’s Next for HASTAC: A Conversation with Co-Directors Cathy Davidson and Jacqueline Wernimont
Beginning July 1, HASTAC will have a new co-director—the multi-talented Jacqueline Wernimont (pictured left), Director of the Nexus Lab and Assistant Professor at Arizona State University. Professor Wernimont will join Cathy Davidson (pictured right), HASTAC Co-Founder, Futures Initiative Founding Director, and Distinguished Professor at the […]
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Welcome Arizona State University, HASTAC’s New Institutional Partner!
Beginning July 1, 2017, Arizona State University (ASU)—together with the Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)–will lead HASTAC in the organization’s next phase of “changing the way we teach and learn.” After twelve productive years at Duke, the Nexus Digital Research Co-op will now co-host HASTAC at ASU in partnership with the Graduate […]
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New book sets out a manifesto to make reading for everyone
15th June 2017 For immediate release New book sets out a manifesto to make reading for everyone Facet Publishing have announced the release of Reading by Right: Successful strategies to ensure every child can read to succeed. Literacy has been recognized as a human right for over 50 years in several international declarations and […]
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Technical Communicators as Researchers, Information Architects, and Cognitive Scientists Informing Global Communications and Interdisciplinary Contexts
Technical Communicators as Researchers, Information Architects, and Cognitive Scientists Informing Global Communications and Interdisciplinary Contexts Interview: Kirk St.Amant, Ph.D., Louisiana Technical University Article By: Jennifer Roth Miller and Jessica Lynn Campbell, Ph.D. Students, University of Central Florida (jenniferrothmiller@knights.ucf.edu and jessicalynn@embarqmail.com) Dr. Kirk St.Amant, Professor and the Eunice C. Williamson Endowed Chair in Technical […]
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Introduction and Afterword (Review by Christina Bosch)
Part of the Collaborative Book Review of Structuring Equality: Handbook for Student-Centered Learning. The book is available here. This post reviews the book’s introduction and afterword by Cathy Davidson and Danica Savonick. Many of us may gloss over the introduction and afterword of a book, eager to get through the packaging and into the gifts that lie in the center of […]
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A Day of Public Humanizing
From Day of PH: To paraphrase that introduction from the old days of Internet: Hi, I’m Emily, and I’m from Twitter. This is a bit of a cop-out, but I thought I’d share my work in PH not through a to-do list but through a place that represents a passive but important aspect of my […]
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Proposal for a University Department for ‘The Study Of Time’
Proposal for a University Department for ‘The Study Of Time’ by Rick Doble INTRODUCTION Today circular repeating time (right) is being replaced with linear time as the digital clock on the left shows. Time is the most used noun in the English language according to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary. This is […]
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Tressie McMillan Cottom Kills It on on Daily Show
If you missed HASTAC Steering Committee member Tressie McMillan Cottom being interviewed by Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, you will have at least two more chances to hear her talk about her stunning book, Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. Prof Cottom is not only a sociologist […]
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Project Reflection
The goal of our team project is to create a timeline-based database that holds analyses of the past 10 Dartmouth keynote commencement speeches. In creating this database and forming these analyses, we hope to uncover insights into what the social justice implications are of keynote speeches, and how these implications are related to the personal […]
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Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education
Monday, March 6 | 2 PM to 4 PM EST | GC Room 9100 (Skylight Room) | RSVP Twitter Chat: @FuturesED #fight4edu Live stream: http://bit.ly/fight4edu-live Join the Futures Initiative on Monday, March 6, 2017 from 2-4pm for a roundtable discussion on Global Perspectives on the Fight for Higher Education, in which we will share strategies across the globe and highlight […]