Sen. Jeff Sessions, the senior Republican on the Senate Budget Committee, wants the National Endowment for the Humanities to explain its peer-review process and the grants it makes to support its Muslim Journeys program and courses that investigate the Big Questions. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
Writing
“Frankenstein’s Manuscript Draws Its First Breath Online”
The free-to-all Shelley-Godwin Archive makes its debut by posting facsimiles and transcripts of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" notebooks. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Judge Hands Google a Big Victory in Book-Scanning Case”
In a ruling celebrated by fair-use advocates, text-mining scholars, and librarians, a federal judge ruled that Google's use of copyrighted works in its Google Books program counts as fair use, and he dismissed a lawsuit originally brought by authors and publishers groups in 2005. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“In Wake of Traumas, Digital Archives Gather Crowds”
Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, online community archives have become a place to gather and heal as well as to collect historically useful evidence. The latest example is Our Marathon, a crowdsourced database of stories, images, and social-media mementos of the April 15, 2013 bombings at the Boston Marathon. Our Marathon is the creation of a team at Northeastern University's NULab. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) »
“Worried About Message, Colleges Scrutinize Social Media”
University-related Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, and websites can help spread the word about a school's strengths. As social-media accounts proliferate, though, institutions have started to think about the risks as well as the rewards. Who's using those accounts, and why? Some institutions have started to do social-media audits, and some social-media users aren't happy about it. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
