Henry Jenkins to leave MIT, accepts position at USC
I’ve only been at MIT since late August, but I’m just as bummed as everyone else about Comparative Media Studies co-Director Henry Jenkins’ leaving for USC.
He made the announcement in person, to a group of students and separately to a group of staff. It was an object lesson how to break tough news: expectations were set some time back that this might happen; he gave the news in person but had his assistant email all details during the meetings so the facts were in front of us when we got back to our offices; he left lots of time for questions; and once everyone had time to process why it had to happen, he made it public knowledge himself: http://henryjenkins.org/2008/11/professor_jenkins_goes_to_holl.html
Because Henry was a co-founder of the program, once he leaves, it will essentially be up to MIT to decide how to move it forward.
