It started yesterday: boxes that had begun appearing in the hallway were being moved out. The Humanities Department is finally no more. We are now the English Department and the Department of Media, Culture & the Arts. The former is moving upstairs. It’s sad.
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Cut It Out
Talk of massive state budgets cuts for higher education has preoccupied everyone on campus for the last week. Ever since the state legislature decided that it might be a good idea to make up a budget shortfall of $1.1 billion by crippling the university system’s funding by $600 billion, the only business being done centers [...]
MSC Email Issues
On July 22, 2009, Macon State College’s Office of Technology Resources CIO turned off secure POP3 and secure IMAP access to email. Apparently, some phishers obtained access to the system because some users replied to their emails with sensitive information. As a result, the maconstate.edu domain became blacklisted. The reaction was to make email inaccessible [...]
Arts Festival Photos
It was my privilege to photograph this year’s Macon State College Arts Festival “Borderlines: Reading, Writing, Performing within American Spaces.” All of the speakers were excellent; I particularly enjoyed the stories of Tayari Jones and Carman Agra Deedy, though poets Lillian Allen and Lorna Goodison were also entertaining and poignant. My thanks to festival organizers [...]
MSC Humanities Upgraded
Yes, it’s finally finished. The migration from Drupal to WordPress on the MSC Humanities site is complete. Yes, the Leopard Server upgrade gave me some issues, but I think the result is worth it. Let’s just hope the next system update from Apple doesn’t break anything. It shouldn’t. I still have some work to do [...]
I’m Addicted
I seem to be, anyway. When I found Elegant Themes, I had to change the look of my photography web site. And this site with the Quadro theme. (I’m resisting the urge to move install one of these themes on HumX. No, I won’t.) Yes, for $20 a year, you too can have some pretty [...]
9/11 Message from Dr. Bell
Seven years have passed since the tragic events of the morning of September 11, 2001, and time has helped heal us collectively. Inhuman attacks remind us of the necessity of good work, from community service to higher education, and since 2001 many in America, and around the world, have renewed their commitment to the public [...]