Blog:
What’s New at University of Venus - Week Ending 13 August 2011
University of Venus Around the Web:
- University of Venus at The Guardian (UK), Mental Health on Campus: How One University is Addressing the Problem [2], by Deanna England.
- In Saturday Soundbites: 6RBI edition [3] at NeurRealism, Leanne Doherty’s recent UVenus post on tenure gets a shout out.
- She’s Got It! - A spin-off from UVenus, debuts at Inside Higher Ed with an interview with Lynn Pasquerella, President of Mount Holoyoke [4].
What’s New With Our Writers:
- Anamaria Dutceac Segesten co-chaired a panel at the Nordic Political Science Congress (NOPSA) in Vaasa, Finland. The theme of the workshop was Religion and nationalism: meeting points, conflicts and challenges. The final version of Anamaria’s manuscript has been submitted to the publisher and her book, Myth, Identity, and Conflict: A Comparative Analysis of Romanian and Serbian Textbooks, [5]is scheduled for release on September 16, 2011 and now available for preorder at Amazon. Congratulations!
Our Writers At Other Blogs:
- Lee Skallerup Bessette with Time For a Change: Integrating Peer-Driven Learning [6], In-Class Distractions Are Nothing New [7] and Bad Female Academic: Not Interested in Passing [8] at College Ready Writing.
- Mary Churchill with From Community Engagement to Public Impact [9]at Old School, New School at The Chronicle of Higher Ed and with Michael Brown, The Double-Edged Sword of Academic Elitism [10] at Old School, New School at The Chronicle of Higher Ed
- Melonie Fullick and Ernesto Priego in “The Scholarly Web”, [11] by John Elmes, Times Higher Education.
- Elizabeth Lewis Pardoe dances around an answer to, “What do you do?” [12]
- Ernesto Priego Disturbios en Londres [13] at Nexos; Narrando los Riots [14], at #SinLugar; and Father Robert Busa [15] at The Guardian.
- Liana Silva talks about sports talk radio and the lack of female participation in that medium in her blog post [16] at the sound studies blog Sounding Out! and Wanted: Someone to Write Fiction [17] at Words Are My Game.
If You’re Not on Twitter, You Might Have Missed:
- She Got a Big Ego: Thoughts on Dating with a Doctorate [18] at The Crunk Feminist Collective.