I’ll be joining Macaulay Honors College Class of 2015 tomorrow morning for the first of three days of orientation. It will undoubtedly be a crowded, noisy, boisterous morning, and my welcome message is brief — actually, all I really want to say is, “have fun,” but then that doesn’t sound particularly decanal. So it will […]
Best e-book and web developer in town happens to be Matt Stine: read how he made R.L.Stine even scarier on Kindle! http://bit.ly/qcE3ME #ereading
October 13, 2011 by
Whither or wither the university: here’s a good round-up of some useful facts and economic realities and signs of mostly good intentions. #university
October 10, 2011 by
Teamwork, Tools, Talent: Welcome Macaulay Class of 2015! #Macaulay #highereducation
August 21, 2011 by
Perks of Being an English major, check it out! #higher education #english majors
August 18, 2011 by
thanks, Peter!
Are America’s Colleges subverting the Liberal Arts? Do I like LAT’s shoutout to Macaulay? http://lat.ms/annkirschner #higher education
August 17, 2011 by
Pardon the snarky caption: that’s me talking, not Professor Will Snyder; I’m sure he knows what the Blackboard means. I could write a book about this article and maybe I should. For now, here’s the LAT article and you can read it yourself. I will simply say that the liberal arts ARE alive and well […]
Congrats to Smarthistory, one of TIME’s best websites of 2011! http://ti.me/oihfpC
August 16, 2011 by
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Can you say F*A*T*H*O*M? Online learning coming of age, nice new iteration at Stanford: 58,000 Taking Course on AI: http://nyti.ms/pam4ni
August 16, 2011 by
You can still see the exhaust fumes at FATHOM. We were so on the right track. Take another bow, fellow Fathomites!
Peter Weinberg’s first published article….why not start with an op-ed in The New York Times?
July 17, 2011 by
I think I’d be laughing my head off even if it hadn’t been written by my son. Check it Peter’s article about moving home after college. Funny that with all my affection for e-reading, we all got an extra jolt of delight that it was published in the REAL PRINT NYT, Review page 7, right […]
I’ll be doing Tiger Duty at Princeton conference
April 24, 2011 by
I”ll be holding down the 70’s on a Princeton panel at the SHE ROARS conference on April 29 in McCosh 50. Have to decide whether I will publicly reveal my shame as a chain-smoking grad assistant in 1974….oops, guess I just did. That will be after participating in the two-day Princeton English Department Advisory Council, […]
Why I listened to Stanley Fish in 1971…or the best movie review ever
December 28, 2010 by
Don’t miss Stanley Fish on True Grit in today’s NYT. In 1971, I talked my way into a graduate seminar that Stanley Fish was teaching at the Linguistic Institute, a summer program that hit Buffalo that year. This was a very different kind of traveling circus, one where Noam Chomsky and other luminaries were the […]