The MLA Executive Council has issued a response to Senator Jeff Sessions, who, in a recent letter to the National Endowment for the Humanities, challenged the NEH for funding programs that address “indefinite” questions or that “seemingly use Federal funds on behalf of just one religion.” The council statement affirms the association’s “trust in the… Read more »
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Voice Your Support for the NEH
The House Appropriations Committee is about to consider a proposed forty-nine percent cut to the National Endowment for the Humanities. The MLA and the National Humanities Alliance encourage you to contact your elected representatives to express support for the NEH and its important work on behalf of the humanities.
Winter Newsletter Published
The Winter 2013 MLA Newsletter, now online, features a joint column from President Marianne Hirsch and First Vice President Margaret Ferguson about the discussion of MLA group structure, Rosemary G. Feal’s editor’s column about her alt-ac experience, a report on the 2012–13 MLA Job Information List, a profile of the incoming director of the Association… Read more »
Report on the 2012–13 Job Information List
A report on the jobs advertised in the 2012–13 MLA Job Information List (JIL) is now available on the MLA Web site. After inching higher each of the past two years, the number of jobs advertised in the JIL fell by 93 (7.5%) in the English edition and by 26 (2.3%) in foreign language edition… Read more »
2013 Presidential Forum Published on New Profession Site
Presentations that were part of the 2013 MLA Annual Convention’s Presidential Forum “Avenues of Access: Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members and American Higher Education,” the first Presidential Forum panel consisting entirely of faculty members off the tenure track, have now been published on the new Profession site at MLA Commons. Introduced by the 2012–13 MLA president, Michael Bérubé, the forum… Read more »
New Member Benefit from JSTOR
MLA members can now subscribe to JPASS, a new JSTOR access plan for individuals, for $99 a year (a 50% discount on the listed rate). JPASS, for scholars who work outside the academy or whose institution does not subscribe to JSTOR, provides access to more than 1,500 humanities, social science, and science journals in the… Read more »
2013 Ratification Vote Now Under Way
The 2013 Delegate Assembly approved one constitutional amendment and two resolutions. The assembly’s actions are not final, however, since the MLA constitution requires a ratification vote in each instance. Members are therefore encouraged to review this year’s ballot and to exercise their right to vote, especially since final approval of each resolution depends on a… Read more »
Invitation to Online Forum on Literacy Competency Standards
The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) invites MLA members to attend one of three open online forums on revising its Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education. An ACRL task force is now working on a new approach that underscores the need for faculty members and librarians to collaborate on information-literacy education that… Read more »
31 October Deadline for Child Care
If you are attending the 2014 MLA convention in Chicago and would like to have child care during the meeting, you may preregister for a possible on-site child care service through KiddieCorp. If a sufficient number of children are registered for child care by 31 October, a daytime child care center will operate in the… Read more »
Reminder to Comment on MLA Groups Discussion
The draft proposal for a new MLA group structure has already received over four hundred comments, which have provided important feedback for the working group that created the draft, for the Program Committee, and for the Executive Council. Many groups, however, have received few comments. If you haven’t already weighed in on the draft, we… Read more »