A New Publication for Academics: Inside Higher Ed

I've been taking a breather from blogging as the holiday has been flying by way too quickly. Aside from doing a lot of reading (finished Infinite Jest, Hegel's Introduction to the Philosophy of History, Amy Hungerford's The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification and am working on The Public Burning) and writing, and taking longish walks with Ira around Gävle, I've been working on improving my cooking skills. Our Swedish kitchen is larger and much better equipped (more counter space and a dishwasher!) than our cramped Chicago kitchen, so we've been doing a lot more ambitious cooking here. Anyone for some moose enchiladas? Last night we had lobster to usher in 2005, and for dinner a tenderloin in a fantastic red-wine sauce made with tangerine juice (we didn't have any lemons to use and it turned out great) and honey. Yum.

I've got a conference proposal that I must send out today, but want to draw attention to a promising new online publication called Inside Higher Ed. The publication features news and editorials about issues concerning, surprise, surprise, higher education. It will officially debut sometime in early 2005, though they've already published some material in time for the MLA Convention. I get the impression that it's going to be a sort of looser, less staid version of The Chronicle of Higher Education, which is not surprising considering that several of its founders were previously affiliated with that journal. The fact that the editor is Scott Jaschik bodes well for Inside Higher Ed. Jaschik was previously the editor of The Chronicle of Higher Education and has a great track record when it comes to reporting on and covering higher education issues.