Student Affairs On-Line The on-line magazine about technology and Student Affairs Gary D. Malaney - Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst Editor Stuart Brown - StudentAffairs.com Executive Editor

Join our mailing list!    First Name        Last Name        School        Email            ©2007    StudentAffairs.com    All Rights Reserved	Summer 2004: vol. 5, no. 3 Editor's Note Oh, where have all of the writers gone? As you might note, our summer issue is a little light in quantity, but certainly not quality. Hopefully, all of the prospective writers who are vacationing with technology in mind will return to campus this fall with much information to share with our loyal readers. But for now, enjoy the articles in this issue. Gary D. Malaney Director, Student Assessment, Research, and Evaluation Office Coordinator, Higher Education Program University of Massachusetts Amherst malaney@educ.umass.edu Inside This Issue Featured Articles In Exploring the Use of Course-Specific Websites among Higher Education Faculty Lamont Flowers uses data from the 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty to document how faculty members in the field of higher education utilized course-specific websites. Thomas F. Nelson Laird uses data from the 2003 administration of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) to investigate the relationships between the proportion of time students spend online for academic purposes and several forms of student engagement in Surfin' with a Purpose: Examining How Spending Time Online is Related to Student Engagement. In Attack of the Blogs Kristin D. Wodarski takes us into the world of undergraduate students web logs. Brian Cremins updates us on his new location in My Friend, the Lizard And in 10 Simple Rules for E-mail, Stuart Brown gives us some of his pet peeves regarding email practices. Book Review Connected, Or What it Means to Live in the Network Society Written by Steven Shaviro and reviewed by Gary D. Malaney