Archive for July, 2007

The Dark Underbelly of IT at the University?

I want to talk about a strange irony that I’ve been thinking about lately. It has to do with the ways in which information technologies — and all the wonderful things they afford us — may have actually, somewhat indirectly, encouraged universities and colleges into a “zone of safety” that, ultimately, may be spelling the [...]

A Humble Request for Input and Suggestions

We’ve got two presentations looming in DTLT for which I’m looking for suggestions. The first is a one-hour presentation (which we’ll be doing twice) for incoming freshman that we’ll be offering (concurrently with a number of other sessions offered by UMW departments) on the Friday before classes start. We’ve settled on the general idea of [...]