What’s New at UVenus:

• The Education Writers Association has honored the University of [1] Venus [1] with second prize for community [2] blogging in the association's annual contest [2].
• Afshan Jafar for UVenus at the Guardian with Stop competing [3] with your academic colleagues, join forces with them [3].

What’s New With Our Writers:

• Janni Aragon had several Breath Now meetings as the women's conference date approaches (April 14 and 15 2012).
• Bonnie Stewart finished teaching for the term, and was part of an exciting revisioning process for UPEI’s Bachelor of Education program.
• Sarah Emily Duffhas booked her ticket to attend the Colonial Girls/Colonial Girlhoods conference at the University of Melbourne in June. She was also one of a group of lecturers honoured as inspiring teachers by Stellenbosch University.

Our Writers At Other Blogs:

• Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe draws attention To the [4] Worst Day in American History, Which No One Remembers [4], confesses to An Unrequited Love [5], and sends a Love Note [6] to [6] Neighborhood Schools [6].
• Bonnie Stewart took up the issues Pinterest raises [7] for [7] digital identity practices [7], and the tradition - and the IKEA revival - of kit [8] homes in North America [8].
• Sarah Emily Duff writes about the implications of the Republican assault on [9] contraception [9] for those outside of the US, and about bananas and [10] tax [10] evasion [10] and nutrition advice [11] in women’s magazines.
• Janni Aragon wrote about Young Adult Literature [12] and her Fri Fun Facts [13].
• At her blog Speculative Diction, Melonie Fullick critiques media discourse on postsecondary education by analyzing a television panel on universities [14], and discusses the ways in which students’ past experiences inform their present assumptions [15] about education.
• Ernesto Priego offered some notes on the “vicious cycle” of academia, the perpetuation [16] of [16] privilege and [16] other [16] money matters [16] on his HASTAC blog.

Coming Up:

• Bonnie Stewart’s proposed session “Beyond the Walls of the Academy: Massive Open Online Courses and the New Game of Higher Education” was accepted to the Society for Digital Humanities SEMI at Canada’s Congress 2012.
• Ernesto Priego will be a guest speaker at the “Cradled in Caricature” symposium at the University of Kent. His talk is titled “Enabling Comic and Cartoon Art Digital Research: The British Cartoon Archive Online as an Open Educational Resource. A Digital Humanities Perspective”. The draft programme is here [17].

In Case You Missed it on Twitter:

• Colleges and Elitism [18]