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The Other National Championship
While college football fans watched bowl games last week, chess fans were monitoring the Pan American Intercollegiate Chess Championship, generally...
Tweetup at the MLA
PHILADELPHIA -- A tweetup -- that is, a gathering of Twitter users -- tends to be a casual affair, more...
Words to Banish ... and Words to Use
Lake Superior State University on Thursday issued its annual "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use...
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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.
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.