http://decasia.org/academic_culture/2008/12/semantic-inflation-in-campus-building-names/ critical anthropology of academic culture Mon, 14 May 2012 01:04:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/2008/12/semantic-inflation-in-campus-building-names/comment-page-1/#comment-388 eli Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:10:32 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=79#comment-388 There's a little bit of research on the language of academic marketing -- Bonnie Urciuoli has a great article called "excellence, leadership, skills, diversity: marketing liberal arts education" -- but nothing on campus building names that I know of. It would be interesting to know if the trend is towards naming after donors and away from naming after famous faculty, presidents, etc. If I ever have a dull afternoon I may look in the campus archives to see if they have useful records on this... There’s a little bit of research on the language of academic marketing — Bonnie Urciuoli has a great article called “excellence, leadership, skills, diversity: marketing liberal arts education” — but nothing on campus building names that I know of. It would be interesting to know if the trend is towards naming after donors and away from naming after famous faculty, presidents, etc. If I ever have a dull afternoon I may look in the campus archives to see if they have useful records on this…

]]> http://decasia.org/academic_culture/2008/12/semantic-inflation-in-campus-building-names/comment-page-1/#comment-386 Nate Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:49:36 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=79#comment-386 That's really interesting. Has any work been done on the history of naming conventions in universities? That’s really interesting. Has any work been done on the history of naming conventions in universities?

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