Saturday, May 3, 2008

Summer reading aggregator This is where I'm posting links to things I plan to read and/or write about once I'm through with end-of-semester grading and sorting-out... Expect this list to get longer... Degrees in the Past. "Ultimately, to change the media industries, we've got to change our universities," says my old friend Vin Crosbie, without giving away all the secrets of what should change. "Although the youngest professors are for change," he says, "so are a great many of the oldest. It's those aged in between who are most obstructive, those who worked in the media industries during the 1990s before entering academia." Since I just arrived here at Radford by a circuitous career route, I'm one of the oldest and newest... and in a new School of Communication, so change is in the air. I'll know by July 1 how many of my older (in service to the university) colleagues are interested in the university's recent offer of a  "workforce transition" early retirement option. A Primer on how to read your online newspaper after the paper stops using paper. 8:39:17 PM    comment []

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