Letter from the Executive Director

...on creativity, innovation, and liberal arts colleges

Shortly after last year's NITLE Summit, I wrote a letter to the community about NITLE's re-commitment to helping liberal arts colleges integrate inquiry, pedagogy, and technology. The letter focused on making transparent the "how's" underlying this renewed mission.

In this letter, I want to explore the "why's." Why does liberal education matter, and why must liberal arts colleges integrate inquiry, pedagogy, and technology?

Let me start with principles. First, creativity matters. It is the engine that drives the train. We know that creative destruction is essential for innovation to occur; new creativity destroys the old, allowing more effective approaches to key challenges to emerge. The need for creativity and creative destruction is especially relevant in an increasingly knowledge-based economy and in the face of our most intractable problems: energy & climate, water, poverty, education, effective citizenship and leadership...the list goes on.

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Focus

...on the digital humanities

  • The NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities will hold its 2010 Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants Project Directors Meeting on September 28. NITLE’s Bryan Alexander will deliver the keynote address: “Thrilling Wonder Stories of Cyberculture.” Twitter hashtag for the meeting: #SUG2010.

  • NITLE has issued a call for nominations for its fall 2010 Community Contribution Award, which will focus on the theme “Digital Humanities and the Undergraduate.” The deadline for nominations is September 17, 2010. Award winners will receive a small honorarium and an opportunity to publish a case study with Academic Commons in spring 2011.