Category: Schools
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Voyant and Commencement Speeches
In light of the fact that my final project proposal is a to topic model recent Dartmouth commencement speeches, I decided to compare the 2007 and 2008 addresses to Dartmouth grads given by Henry M. Paulson Jr. ’68, Secretary of the Treasury, and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia, respectively. The Cirrus features immediately informed […]
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“So what do we do now?” Lessons from the AAC&U 2017 Annual Meeting
At whose expense are service learning and diversity courses effective? Can U.S. education policy stop telling poor students what to do (and instead provide them with resources and opportunities)? How can we avoid reproducing oppressions in our social justice work in education? These are just some of the difficult and important questions addressed at this […]
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Crowdsourcing Tags
The crowdsourcing project I contributed to was Metadata games (http://www.metadatagames.org/), a self-described free and open source (FOSS) crowdsourcing game platform. Basically, the platform partners with 11 institutions and over 45 of their collections to crowdsource help in collecting metadata in the form of tags. These institutions are libraries, museums, and universities in the […]
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DH Jobs: Getting Beyond the “Life Raft or Trendy Fad” Debate
Pick the best answer. DH jobs are: A. Definitely everywhere! “A bastion of hope for Humanities scholars,” I’ve called them before at parties. B. Most places, right? C. Some places…kinda? D. Quickly receding into a job market graveyard after a glorious but brief vogue. This question might be difficult to answer because all of these […]
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Danica Savonick Awarded AAC&U K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award
In January 2017, Danica Savonick, a CUNY GC doctoral candidate in English and Futures Initiative Fellow, was awarded the prestigious K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award by the Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U). The K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award recognizes graduate students who show exemplary promise as future leaders of higher education; who demonstrate a commitment […]
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Practical guidance for any librarian learning to deal with data
Facet Publishing have announced the release of The Data Librarian’s Handbook by Robin Rice and John Southall. This new book, written by two data librarians with over 30 years’ experience, unpicks the everyday role of the data librarian and offers practical guidance on how to collect, curate and crunch data for economic, social and scientific […]