Kuhio Walters, UNH PhD veteran, has accepted a position at West Chester College in Pennsylvania. Excellent!

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Anyone have a subscription to the Chronicle of Higher Education? I’d like to get a copy of this short piece:
A Proposal: Get Serious About the Foreign-Language Requirement
By EDWARD M. WHITE
Online access to the Chronicle is $72/yr. Sheesh! I pay less for contact lenses.
EDIT: Got it.

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Heh.
A mere 109 posts ago, I congratulated Christina Ortmeier-Hooper on moving on from the UNH PhD program to UMass.
Well, welcome back, Christina… she will be joining Tom and Cristy on our faculty next year. That’s a pretty awesome team, if I do say so myself.

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Welcome Cristy Beemer, a Miami University-Ohio grad who has joined Tom Newkirk (and another new hire coming soon) in the Composition program at UNH. Good news for her and us!

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Congrats to UNH PhD candidate Steve Simpson, whose article “Mentoring as a Long-Term Relationship: Situated Learning in a Doctoral Program” (co-authored by Paul Kei Matsuda), appears in the new U. of Michigan book Learning the Literacy Practices of Graduate School: Insiders’ Reflections on Academic Enculturation.
More info here.

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