Editor's Note, March 2008
Elizabeth Haller
PhD Candidate and Instructor, Kent State University
E-mail: editoraee@hotmail.com
We invite your continued perusal and encourage you to submit articles, poetry, and fiction for consideration in future issues of AEE. Please review our Call for Papers on this site for more details on submission requirements. If you are unsure whether your contribution would be suitable under the terms of our Call for Papers, please send along an inquiry, and I will be happy to respond forthwith. As always, do not forget to check out Grist for the Mill for possible submission ideas.
Columnist Lynne Fukuda will return with another installment for “The View from Here”. Stay tuned to next issue.
Dan Lukiv starts off AEE’s feature articles with the sixth installment of his children’s novel titled “Quibils and Quirks”. The original text of this work was serialized in The Cariboo Observer during 1997 through 1999. According to Lukiv, this project, consisting of 108 short chapters, is designed for serialization and works perfectly for teachers who like reading to their students daily. As such, we will be running this novel with eleven chapters per issue through the May 2008 issue of AEE. Please refer to the August 2007 issue to read the “Forward” to this inventive work.
The second feature of this issue, “A Commentary on the Corporatization of Higher Education”, comes to us from Jason Caudill. According to Caudill: “One of the rising topics of debate in higher education today is the issue of corporatization and its impact on the educational environment. While there is no one answer to the current problems being faced by higher education as an industry, there are some problems that may be solved by applying a corporate model. Concurrently, some aspects of higher education have no place for the corporate model and need to be maintained as unique environments. This commentary explores some of these ideas.”
Our final feature, “Hurricane Katrina: A Disaster Relief Volunteer’s Perspective”, is authored by David Wilde who states: “This was written as a response to questions by colleagues at the University of New Mexico as well as in response to questions by friends as to the state of New Orleans in post Katrina times. [I also wanted] to clarify and to crystallize my own thoughts as to the meaning and purpose of this very human tragic yet natural disaster. I may have achieved this clarity of thought but larger questions remain as to the dangerously slow response of the government to a vulnerable community.”
This month’s Poet’s Corner contribution, “More than Words” comes to us from Vanessa Raney.
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