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Job crisis broadens. After MLA reports collapsing market for language professors, history and economics groups reveal huge drops in faculty positions.
Are American Students Lazy?
Adjunct's column, comparing them unfavorably to her foreign students, sets off debate over work ethic.
Role Models and Stereotypes
Study both backs up and challenges conventional wisdom about whether presence of female faculty members influences female students' choice of major.
Judge Orders Oakland U. to House Student With Disability
Oakland University discriminated against a disabled student by refusing to let him live in a campus residence hall, a federal...
Does Dismal MLA Job Market Add to Hook-Up Demand?
This year's annual meeting of the Modern Language Association has featured much chatter about how the terrible job market has...
Economics and the MLA
Language professors call for all faculty members, including part-timers, to be eligible for tenure and to receive "a living wage." Association avoids vote on Ward Churchill.
What Direction for Rhet-Comp?
Has field become too enamored of theory or "agency" or new media or writing about writing -- as opposed to its roots? Has "drive-by Foucault" replaced political and philosophical thought?
'The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies'
The Cultural Capital of Asian American Studies (New York University Press) explores the state of the discipline more than 40...