June 28, 2002

Academic E-Collaborations and Old-School Rivalries

By DAVID L. KIRP and JONATHAN VanANTWERPEN

The intrepid academics from a handful of Southern liberal-arts colleges, who had been dreaming since the mid-1990s of a virtual, multi-institution classics department, had done the hard intellectual work. They had thought through the challenges of such a project -- how to mix the online with the personal, high-tech with high touch. They had persuaded professors from liberal-arts colleges across the South to sign on to the experiment and, together with these newfound colleagues, had devised

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