Kathleen Fitzpatrick analyses the sudden isolation graduate students find themselves in during the dissertation process. In the humanities, she observes, graduate students are regularly habituated into an anxiety of intellectual independence whereby sharing ideas, collaboration and publishing work in progress is to be considered suspect and…[Read more]

Fanfiction communities are not formal libraries nor are they traditional archives. They are staffed almost entirely by volunteers who are anonymous writers and readers of the content. These communities are a fascinating look at the organic ways information management and homegrown folksonomies can come about. With fanfiction growing in popularity,…[Read more]

Over approximately the last decade, the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), has become a recognized international community-driven effort that has developed and maintains the MEI schema, standards, and shared documentation. The potential of machine-readable music data that can be reused, rendered, shared, or analyzed using a computer, is quite…[Read more]

Appointment, reappointment, tenure, and promotion recommendations in use at Michigan State University for the white paper Walking the Talk: Toward a Values-Aligned Academy.

Example faculty review forms in use at the Michigan State University College of Arts and Letters for the white paper Walking the Talk: Toward a Values-Aligned Academy.

A look at Charting Pathways of Intellectual Leadership for the white paper Walking the Talk: Toward a Values-Aligned Academy.

An analysis of the values included in mission and vision statements by the Big Ten Academic Alliance member institutions for the white paper Walking the Talk: Toward a Values-Aligned Academy.