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Johnston has a new web site.

March 11, 2008
Maybe you noticed. The web site is the result of a proposal Director Greg Salyer submitted last fall in which he suggested that Johnston was more like a university itself instead of a department. It has almost as many dimensions as a university, and some of those are unique to Johnston. The proposal was for a "Web 2.0" site that would allow the kind of dialogue and interaction that is at the heart of Johnston. The site runs by an open-source content management system called Drupal. Drupal powers sites including the homepages of Warner Brothers Records, The New York Observer, Fast Company, Popular Science, and Amnesty International and project sites by SonyBMG, Forbes, Harvard University, and more. The site is hosted by SiteGround, who are specialists in hosting open-source content management sites. With this new web site, Johnston now has a new identity on the web, one that can tell the Johnston story and enable it to change as well.

Students Present at Academic Conference

February 10, 2008
Ricky (Ricochet) Burton ('09), Monica Barra ('08), and Victoria Grubbs ('08) all gave papers at the annual meeting of the Southern Humanities Council in Knoxville, Tennessee. The conference theme was literary and cultural representations of home. Ricky's paper was titled "'It Seems Like I Heard These Stories Before': Rereading Ceremony. Monica and Victoria together gave a paper titled "Home: A Dialogue on Family, Friendship, and Living and Learning Together. Ricky, Monica, Victoria, and Director Greg Salyer all presented a panel on Johnston titled "Transgressing and Transcending Institutional Culture: A Living/Learning Community as Home."