Some wonder if this means that the University of Texas no longer cares about its own state's history. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
Journalism
“Harvard Humanities Students Discover the 17th Century Online”
Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare maven and founder of New Historicism, is teaching a nifty new course at Harvard that uses 21st-century technology to take students on a voyage through the world Shakespeare knew--although it doesn't stop there. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education »
“Doris Lessing, Chronicler of Many Rifts, Wins Nobel Prize for Literature”
I especially love the story about a member of the Nobel Committee telling her why she'd never win. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
“A Scholarly Society Makes a Logical–and Symbolic–Move to Cambridge U. Press”
Scholarly society reverses trend, ditches commercial publisher for a university press. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
“Project of Publishers’ Association Is Criticized”
PRISM, an anti-open-access lobbying effort backed by the Association of American Publishers, riles some of the APA's members as well as OA advocates. More here and here. Read More at The Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription only) »
