This month’s member spotlight features Darin Jensen, a ten year member of the MLA who currently serves on the Ad Hoc Committee on the Academic Workforce in Languages and Literatures. Learn more about Darin’s experience with the MLA:
“I have been surprised and delighted at how the MLA has pivoted to be more inclusive of community colleges and teacher scholars who work there.”
Recommended resource: “The workforce committee has helped me understand how interconnected workforce issues are across different institution types. The work has been valuable as a way to make open-access workforce issues more visible.
The work Jason [Rhody] and Janine [Utell] are doing for professional development and in creating updated reports like the workforce report and the 2yr/4yr relation report are essential in building a strong profession across disciplines that can respond to our political climate in a way that will help sustain the important work we do. I recommend these readings and programs like last summer’s MLA training for new department chairs.”