Thnik about it: The New College Center for Critical Inquiry and Cultural Studies has a new website at http://ccics.asu.edu.
The ASU Center for Critical Inquiry and Cultural Studies, based in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, has launched an updated site that boasts more flexibility, creativity and visibility. The new site can be found at http://ccics.asu.edu.
The new-look site was designed by New College student Amanda Piltz, who expects to graduate in May 2013 and is studying in the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences where she is conducting research exploring and reporting on impulsivity among current and past heroin-dependent individuals. Fellow New College student Kim Singleton was responsbile for the initial posting of feature content and serves as the site contact for news and features. Singleton is a student research assistant for the center, pursuing degrees in English and public relations and a certificate in philosophy, rhetoric and literature. Both Piltz and Singleton are students in Barrett, the Honors College at the West campus.
“The site promises to be alive and self renewing,” says Martin Matuštík, the center’s co-director and an ASU Lincoln Center Professor of Ethics and Religion in the New College Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies. “New sites must create living reasons for their life, which in turn has to bring people into the conversation; our site does just that.”
Among the highlights of the refreshed site are a center blog, features and spotlights with RSS feed, Google-driven events calendar, new research with sublinks and drop down menus, and faculty groupings according to clusters and research.
The Center for Critical Inquiry and Cultural Studies, a unit within the New College Division of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, has two related missions:
- To foster and sustain, through research clusters, new intellectual communities for the faculty of the New College, and
- To promote innovative relationships and collaborative research among ASU faculty more broadly.
For more information about the center, visit http://ccics.asu.edu or email cci@asu.edu.
