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NEH launches searchable database of all funded projects since 1980
This could be very, very handy for anyone interested in looking for a grant.
C.E.O. Libraries Reveal Keys to Success - New York Times
Lots of powerful business people have enormous collections of classic literature, which they spend a lot of time reading, according to this piece. A little on the fluffy side, but interesting. Might be worth having students read it sometime.
Breaking Down Barriers: a virtual, online-only conference sponsored by Blackwell (Oct. 19-30, 2009)
Connecting College Majors and Religiosity - Student Affairs - The Chronicle of Higher Education
More on the U of M study. Archived: http://sqrl.it/?1fi4t
News: God and Majors - Inside Higher Ed
More on the U of M study showing a decline in religiosity among humanities and social science majors.
Empirics on the Origins of Preferences: The Case of College Major and Religiosity
An abstract of the study, which has been receiving a fair amount of publicity, from the University of Michigan, which shows that the humanities are bad for religious faith (to put it in a ridiculously oversimplified form).
Study: Religiosity of Humanities Students Most Likely to Wane | Christianpost.com
An interesting study suggesting that college students who start school very religious tend to be attracted to humanities and social science majors, but that they often either find their religious faith challenged or they leave their majors. Apparently Christian students tend to feel most comfortable as education majors.
Conferences for Digital Humanities, Digital Archives, Digital Libraries, and Digital Museums
John Strassburger, "Restore high ideals to learning (Op-Ed)," Philadelphia Inquirer (Jan. 16, 2009)
An op-ed by John Strassburger, the president of Ursinus (the college where I work). A fairly broad and provocative statement about the purpose of higher education and, in particular, about its relevance in the current economic climate.
Penn Humanities Forum (UPenn) - Regional Fellows 2003-2004 - Theme: "Belief"
An interesting list of people in my area who are working on topics related to my interests.
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
A research center at University of Nebraska - Lincoln. I'm curious about what they do. They offer some grants to early-career faculty. `
Andrew Delbanco, "A Higher Education: Can the Humanities Survive? (Review of Kronman, Education's End)," from Commonweal 135/16 (Sept. 28, 2008)
Clipping mainly because he favorably mentions my institution, Ursinus. Links: CiteBite http://snipr.com/47j35 , original article http://snipr.com/47j2t
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Add Sticky Notewhat I know of other colleges-from small Ursinus College in Pennsylvania to the honors college of the vast North Carolina State University-convinces me that humanistic education in Kronman's sense remains alive and well in many places around the nation
- Go Ursinus. - on 2008-10-09
The Collegium Budapest, an institute for advanced study
William A. Christian, Jr., an eminent but non-academically-affiliated historian, is a fellow there. I am very curious...
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