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This link takes you to the Digital Humanities certificate and some department information for Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. The website offers information for different job offerings, blog posts, and classes offered in the field at Texas A&M. The website looks to be mostly run by the faculty for the department at Texas A&M.

This link leads to Marylhurst University Online Digital Humanities Degree. I thought this was worth noting because it is actually an English and Digital Humanities degree that is being offered. I've looked at a few local colleges near our Texas A&M, and very few universities offer Digital Humanities as a main degree and not a minor or extra field of study. This is worth looking into because the universities need to start offering this degree since it is making so many changes to the way we view the humanities.

This brief article highlights one of the preconvention workshops that was available for MLA 2012. This workshop was hosted by DHCommons, a digital humanist project intended to facilitate the collaboration of either people in the field of digital humanities or people looking to break into the field. The article contains the full announcement for the workshop, highlighting its purpose, its guests, and those sponsoring the project. Including Texas A&M.

It is in this article that the authors Shao Jufang and Shew Huiyan try to find out the outflow of excellent papers and then take measures to stem this flow. They illuminate the academic reward structure in place in China and its most interesting details. While Shao and Shen do not report the salary ranges of Chinese scientists they do describe how the payments work as incentives for publishing. The Shao and Shen article helps Phil Davis the author of Does the Chinese model make sense build his counter argument. This is why this article can also be referenced throughout Davis article.