Dear Drew, and others,
Apologies for duplication.
The question raised in this thread about research resources for retired and
semi-retired academics in Santa Fe is an important one. As some of you may
know, a few years back when the College of Santa Fe was about to go down, a
few of us chartered and tried to organize something called the City
University of Santa Fe. The idea was to pull together all of the
intellectual resources of the city to begin to form a University and to
teach graduate level courses in the specialties that they had brought with
them. In the meantime, we thought that, by organizing the retired faculty
of the city, we could create a resource base of teachers and talents that
might volunteer to rescue the College of Santa Fe.
I found, to my surprise, that few of the retired academics
of Santa Fe seemed to be interested. People retire and come to Santa Fe
because they want to do "their own thing", and starting a university wasn't
anybody's particular thing. In general, I was asking them to ask what they
could do for a City University of Santa Fe, and they were asking me what a
City University of Santa Fe could do for them. That was a question to
which I didn't have a good answer.
This thread suggests a possible answer. Let's say I made a
successful argument before, say, the Mellon Foundation that pulling together
these resources would be a good thing. And let's say, I convinced them to
give us the resources to organize a research web portal for CUSF faculty, so
that retiring faculty could pitch right in on whatever projects they want to
pursue. Would THIS be a way get retired faculty to begin investing time in
the future of graduate work
In Santa Fe? Would it get YOU to invest time?
Anyway, I would be willing to try, if a sufficient number of people thought
it worth a shot. Have a look at the web site for The City University of
Santa Fe (www.cusf.org) and see what you think. It's not a triumph of
webmanship and it hasn't been updated for many, many months, but if you read
around, read the text of the charter, etc., you will see what I had in mind.
I am in Massachusetts, but this is a project I could work on here as well as
there, if anybody is interested. I think it requires, perhaps, a half a
dozen people willing to put in about a half a day a week (mostly working on
their own) to build some momentum.
Not holding my breath,
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
<http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
<http://www.cusf.org/> http://www.cusf.org
From: drew einhorn [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2011 4:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [sfx: Discuss] Doing research in Santa Fe - advice
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 2:21 PM, drew einhorn <[email protected]>
wrote:
libros.unm.edu is the combined card catalog for most higher ed libraries in
NM.
Oops. NMSU is not a member of the consortium.
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Gary Lee Nelson <[email protected]>
wrote:
One of the few things I miss about Ohio is the access to libraries. Oberlin
College and Conservatory libraries are super. What they don't have they can
get in a few days through the state-wide university network. For more
casual things I had access to ClevNet which linked all of the public
libraries in NE Ohio.
What is available in NM? Can I get access to anything similar? University
libraries? UNM?
Gary
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