https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2008/12/02/semantic-inflation-in-campus-building-names/ critical anthropology of academic culture Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:10:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.1 https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2008/12/02/semantic-inflation-in-campus-building-names/#comment-963 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 18:10:32 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=79#comment-963 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…

]]> https://decasia.org/academic_culture/2008/12/02/semantic-inflation-in-campus-building-names/#comment-962 Mon, 29 Dec 2008 06:49:36 +0000 http://decasia.org/academic_culture/?p=79#comment-962 That’s really interesting. Has any work been done on the history of naming conventions in universities?

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