I accept the nomination for Vice-President for Teaching.
I subscribed to my first H-Net list in October 1993. Since then I helped to found H-SHGAPE (U.S. Gilded Age and Progressive Era) with Kriste Lindenmeyer; H-California; and H-HOAC (Historians of American Communism) as back-up editor for John Haynes. I have also served on the advisory boards for H-Labor, H-West, and H-USA (teaching of American studies outside the United States). Together with Peter Knupfer, I helped to initiate H-TAH, a network for the participants in the Teaching American History projects funded by the Department of Education. I have been a member of the H-Net Council since 1999, first as an elected council member in 1999-2002, then as president-elect, president, and past president during 2002-2004. For more information about my professional experience, please visit my website: http://bss.sfsu.edu/cherny/ .
The Vice-President for Teaching serves as chair of the H-Net Committee on Teaching, and that committee has the following charges:
1. To critically evaluate and recommend awards for on-line teaching and research resources.
2. To identify and publicize ways that new technologies [can] be effectively used to enhance the teaching of the humanities and social sciences; to identify possible sources of funding for teaching and technology projects; and to facilitate cross-institutional instructional projects using new technologies.
3. To identify and suggest ways that H-Net as an organization can promote the effective use of new technologies in instruction.
If I am elected as Vice-President for Teaching, I would seek to form an active committee to carry out as many of these charges as feasible. In forming such a committee, I would seek members from the editors and advisory boards of the H-Net networks that are most focused on teaching.
