Digital Liberal ArtsEndicott College

Digital Learning Community

The Digital Learning Community consists of faculty and administrators who are interested in integrating digital tools into their courses. They have agreed to attend workshops and semi-regular meetings to learn about digital tools, develop class assignments, and provide feedback on the process. The current faculty involved include:

Administrators and Consultants

Laura Ross-Le

Laura Ross-Le

Dean of Undergraduate College

Mark LeBlanc

Mark LeBlanc

DLA consultant, Computer Science, Wheaton College

Emily Sherwood

Emily Sherwood

DLA consultant, Director of the Digital Scholarship Lab, University of Rochester

Mark Herlihy

Mark Herlihy

Associate Dean/Chair of Humanities

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Jane Tutein

Jane Tutein

Instructional Technology Coordinator

Faculty

Alefiya Albers

Alefiya Albers

Sam Alexander

Sam Alexander

Associate Professor, English

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Amy Damico

Amy Damico

Full Professor, Communications

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Hank Feild

Hank Feild

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

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Adilia James

Adilia James

Assistant Professor, Philosophy

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Phil Lombardo

Phil Lombardo

Associate Professor, Mathamatics

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Rimonda Maroun

Rimonda Maroun

Assistant Professor, Criminal Justice

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Nathalie Saltikoff

Nathalie Saltikoff

Associate Professor, Sociology

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Tech Fellows / DBAs

Technology Fellows are students selected based on their technical expertise, problem solving abilities, and communication skills. Their mission is to assist faculty and students with the software and digital analyses used in projects, including navigating Alice. We had two fellows in the 2017-18 academic year and have two additional fellows in the 2018-19 academic year.

Tech Fellows

Karen Litwincyk

Karen Litwinczyk

Computer Science Major, Class of 2019

Tyler Ouellette

Tyler Ouellette

Computer Science Major, Class of 2020

Jeremy Barr

Jeremy Barr

Computer Science Major, Class of 2020

Tim Amello

Tim Amello

Computer Science Major, Class of 2021

Database Assistants

Makennah Henry

Makennah Henry

Computer Science Major, Class of 2021

Ross Theroux

Ross Theroux
(Graduated)

Computer Science Major, Class of 2018

The Grant

Davis Foundation, November 2016

In November 2016, The Davis Foundation awarded Endicott College a $106,043 grant to extend critical thinking across the liberal arts curriculum by systematically integrating digital literacy into the undergraduate classroom over two years. To achieve the goals laid out in the grant, we have created a Digital Learning Community consisting of faculty from across the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Communications to integrate projects into their courses that use digital tools to process, analyze, and visualize data.

The grant work is being organized internally by Drs. Laura Rossi-Le, Samuel Alexander, and Henry Feild, with substantial help from Dr. Mark LeBlanc of Wheaton College.

Digital Tools

There are many digital tools and analysis that fit well with the digital humanities. To make the first year of the grant as effective as possible, we are focusing on specific kinds of analyses and corresponding software:

To help track these tools, as well as datasets and class projects, we developed an online database, Alice. See a listing of our custom scripts here. Source code for customizations can be found on the endicott-tech-fellows GitHub page.