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Friday, January 9, 2009

Amassing intellectual capital

Posted by John Stoehr on Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 1:22 PM

A small city in the South has become an unlikely place for intellectual activity.

Charleston? No, if only that were the case.

I'm talking about Victoria, Texas, a town near Houston that numerous academic journals, an experimental book publisher, and a prestigious literary review call home.

Amassing intellectual capital as a means to build esteem, spur growth, rally a community, and raise a city's profile. Who would have thought it possible right? Perhaps, the College of Charleston should look into this.

Read more at Inside Higher Ed:

The University of Houston-Victoria is an unlikely hot spot for experimental fiction and the humanities. But this 3,200-student institution has, in just a few years, become host to a constellation of small but prestigious scholarly endeavors that needed new homes – including an independent press for “artistically adventurous, non-traditional fiction,” and the 8,000-circulation American Book Review.

“Sometimes, I’m surprised as well,” says Jeffrey R. Di Leo, dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at UH-V, which doesn’t have Ph.D. programs and where most of the master’s degrees are professionally-oriented. “I think this should all be at ‘Well-Known University Y.’ But it also becomes just another thing that the big university has — whereas here it really is one of the cornerstones of our identity. So….”

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If you ran a high speed commuter train from Charleston To Charlotte with stops in Ashley Phosphate Rd, Summerville,Orangeburg,Columbia and Rock Hill that train would be filled with passengers. Count how many colleges that are along the route. Look at how many people from Charlotte come to Charleston during the warm months to visit the beaches. Charlotte has major sporting and entertainment events that draw people in from all over SC. I think it would be a great investment.

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