National Institute forThe 2012 NITLE Summit and Symposium
The 2012 NITLE Summit will gather senior leaders from liberal arts colleges, non-profit organizations, business, government, and foundations to address issues strategically important to liberal education. Topics will include teaching, learning, and research in the digital humanities; open educational resources; scholarly communication; and shared academics. Dr. Alan Kay, NITLE Fellow and president of Viewpoints Research Institute, will deliver the keynote address.
The 2012 NITLE Symposium will address the implications of strategic issues on campus practice, focusing on innovations extensible across liberal arts campuses. The Symposium offers faculty, technologists, librarians, and administrators from liberal arts colleges and universities in the NITLE Network a forum for open, cross-professional exchange. Dr. Dan Cohen, associate professor of history and art history at George Mason University and director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, will deliver the keynote address.
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A group of digital humanists from the NITLE network will be presenting later today on Digital Humanities for Undergraduates at the Annual Conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). This post contains my remarks introducing the panel, as well as important links that panelists wanted to share. Welcome! ...
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Last year, NITLE published a widely-shared white paper (Divided and Conquered: How Multivarious Isolation Is Suppressing Digital Humanities Scholarship) that pointed to the challenges of isolation for digital humanists. This challenge especially affects digital scholars at small liberal arts colleges. Quinn Dombrowski and I wrote that paper because we were part ...
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With the new academic year now well under way, I want to take a moment to update you on recent activity at NITLE. Our organization, I’m pleased to report, continues on a positive trajectory. Let me draw your attention to some specific developments that are advancing our mission to help liberal arts colleges integrate inquiry, pedagogy, and technology. Read Dr. King’s full letter. -
On September 9th, Lee Cuba, former dean of Wellesley College, Katie Conboy, vice president for academic affairs at Stonehill College, and Bryan Alexander, senior fellow at NITLE, delivered a trio of talks at a Trinity University symposium on the changing landscape of liberal arts education. The symposium was sponsored by Trinity Tomorrow, the university’s strategic planning committee.
