Michael Galaty (soc./anthro.) published a jointly authored paper, “The Mallakastra Regional Archaeological Project; The First Season, 1998,” in Iliria: Journal of the Albanian Institute of Archaeology. The paper was delivered at a conference in Tirana, Albania, entitled “50 Years of Albanian Archaeology.” Jamie Harris (geol.) co-authored a paper entitled “Quaternary faulting in the southern Mississippi embayment and implications for tectonics and seismicity in an intraplate setting,” which was published in the Geological Society of America Bulletin. Mark Lynch’s (math) paper “A topological characterization of the implication ‘differentiability implies continuity’” was accepted for publication in the journal iJMEST.

“We are holding these workshops to educate faculty members about how to bring technology into their classrooms, whether that means creating online syllabi or using Macromedia tools such as Dreamweaver for website management,” Purser explains. He began giving annual technology workshops for the Associated Colleges of the South in 1996, and he has seen a steady increase in interest from faculty and administrators about the convergence of technology and higher education.

“Across the nation, students are ahead of faculty on technology matters. For example, 40% of the students in my liberal studies class have made Powerpoint presentations, which is certainly a higher percentage than among most faculties,” states Purser. “Technology is not in competition with the traditional liberal arts education, rather it is complementary to that education. People learn in different ways for different reasons, and using multimedia technology in our teaching allows us to share information in a way that appeals to multiple learning styles. Higher education is not going to change overnight, but it will change.”

Millsaps Magazine  |  Millsaps | Last Edited April 23, 2001