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Selber, Stuart A. – College Composition and Communication, 2009
Academic institutions mediate online literacy practices in meaningful and significant ways. This essay explores the nature of that mediational process, using a visual-spatial method to map out and conceptualize dynamics and structures that have a bearing on the work of composition. A key argument is that composition teachers are intellectually…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Criticism, College Administration, Influence of Technology
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Burlingame, Philip J.; Dowhower, Andrea L. – New Directions for Student Services, 2009
Founded in 1855 as the Farmer's High School, the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) began as a small college in Centre County providing agricultural education to young men from regional farm families. Penn State became a land-grant university in 1863 following passage of the Morrill Act. Today, Penn State enrolls more than 83,000 students…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Academic Support Services, College Instruction, College Environment