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Opportunities About Latest Issue Past Issues search In This Issue Mentoring Midcareer Colleagues By Jean Ferguson Carr Slow Down: On Dealing with Midcareer Burnout By James Mulholland A Position at the University: A Report to an Academy By Paula Rabinowitz Take My Dean, Please: Advice from a Happy Chair-Turned-Dean By Dana A. Williams Strange Beasts and Bedfellows: The Whys and Hows of K–16 Alliances By Jason Courtmanche Curricular Innovation and the Degree-Program Explosion By John Marx and Mark Garrett Cooper Winter 2020 In the Middle : articles, news, and resources for the work you do In Practice The Importance of Disciplinary Dexterity in Humanities Leadership A scan of ads for English department chairs posted in . . . Academic Growth and al Development through Undergraduate Humanities Research While various colleges around the country cut undergraduate humanities majors . . . English PhD Stipends in the United States: Statistical Report This report presents the results of research into stipends for . . . View All From Around the Web Free Community College Boosts Enrollment in MA Free tuition has led to a surge in enrollment that has strained the MA college system. Alabama Bill Could Limit Faculty Members’ Speech An Alabama bill would ban the teaching of divisive concepts” in schools. Affirmative Action Policies Remain Intact at West Point The Supreme Court has declined to block West Point’s race-conscious admissions policies. From the Archive Beyond the Research Institution: Preparing Graduate Students to Teach in Various Contexts By Ellen C. Carillo I am suggesting that doctoral programs think more expansively about the concept of composition as a practice in the construction of meaning so that graduate students are prepared to recognize their ability to teach interpretive practices . . . The Hows and Whys of Public Humanities By Devoney Looser If we believe in the value of the humanities and want them to have a future, then more of us need to serve as ambassadors to audiences beyond these degree-attainment cohorts. We need to regularly seek public connections—to find or create them. Talking out of School: Academic Freedom and Extramural Speech By Michael Bérubé Now is the time to insist that extramural speech is a vital aspect of academic freedom—precisely because the struggle for academic freedom is the struggle for democracy. . . . Confessions of a Prize Heifer: From Adjunct to the Tenure Track By Emily Van Duyne If you’re an adjunct and you think you’re not good enough and that somehow not being good enough got you where you are, don’t believe that. . . . Common Good, Not Common Despair By Carolyn Betensky, Seth Kahn, Maria Maisto, and Talia Schaffer We thought that institutions would be more likely to pay contingent faculty members a living wage, increase opportunities for advancement, and offer security if their rankings depend on their willingness to do so. . . . The Sky Is Falling By Eric Hayot I want to persuade you, therefore, to abandon any sense of complacency and to believe that we are facing at this moment—right now—a crisis in the humanities. Without action, we humanists, and the graduate and undergraduate students we care about and serve, stand to lose a great deal. . . . Calls, Prizes, & Grants Special Issue of Studies in the Novel : Disability and Disease in the Novel Call for Papers Association for the Study of Modern Italy: Italy and Its Environments Conferences and Meetings The Bait AlGhasham DarArab Translation Prize Awards and Prizes American Council for Québec Studies Conference Conferences and Meetings International D. H. Lawrence Conference Conferences and Meetings Critical Theory Workshop Conferences and Meetings Brandeis Novel Symposium: Anna Burns’s Milkman Conferences and Meetings Cascade Song Festival Conferences and Meetings Undécimo Simposio Internacional de Narratología Conferences and Meetings Midwest Modern Language Association: Health in/of the Humanities Conferences and Meetings English Language Notes Call for Papers Synthesis : In the Shadow of Empire: Situating Black British Writing Call for Papers View More Opportunities Subscribe to Subscribe to First name Last name E-mail address If you are a human and can see this, leave it blank. Do not fill it out. Browse Opportunities About Latest Issue Past Issues More from the MLA MLA Job List ADE ALD The MLA Style Center © 2024 Modern Language Association...