A 27 September post on The Trend comments on the NBER working paper, “Are Tenure Track Professors Better Teachers?”

@sdonohue Hi Stacey. The CCSF in san francisco has had its accreditation revoked despite its excellent record in serving students, academically and culturally. The accreditation process is increasingly being controlled by foundations, Lumina among them. This resolution is directed towards the actions of ACCJC and will contain supporting docs…[Read more]

Blogging this week at PhDs at Work! http://phdsatwork.com/2013/09/22/witl-rgfeal-intro/

Hoping many members will participate in the convo on new group structure to replace current divisions and discussion groups: http://groupsdiscussion.mla.hcommons-staging.org/

Thanks to Linde Brocato @linde4duende for starting a blog for those teaching Hispanomedieval literature and culture! http://hispanomedieval.mla.hcommons-staging.org/

Please participate in the discussion on revised Divisional Structure! http://groupsdiscussion.mla.hcommons-staging.org/

Two University Press books out in 2013:

Disability Studies and Spanish Culture: Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition (Liverpool UP)
http://www.amazon.com/Disability-Studies-Spanish-Culture-Representations/dp/184631870X/

Understanding Juan Benet: New Perspectives (U South Carolina…[Read more]

Podcast series on the culture of cities launched with 5 conversational scholarly interviews at urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com .
Cities discussed run from Madrid to Tokyo to LA/Hollywood to Valencia/Barcelona/Bilbao, and more.

Click there on the Urbanculturalstudies Podcasts page or look for us on iTunes and Internet Archive. More to follow!