The National Labor Relations Board issued a decision on 23 August “that student assistants working at private colleges and universities are statutory employees covered by the National Labor Relations Act.” https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-student-assistants-covered-nlra-0

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The Modern Language Association’s Transdisciplinary Conversations Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum announces this call for proposals for its guaranteed session at MLA 2017 in Philadelphia:
Environment, Illness, Literature, Health/care

Literature of environmental illness, critical perspectives on health, policy, practice. Topics and t…[Read more]

During the 2016 annual convention of the MLA, the new TC Medical Humanities and Health Studies Forum’s executive committee met to plan session proposals for the 2017 convention and other initiatives.

The forum’s executive committee leadership for 2016:

Rebecca Garden, president

Thomas Lawrence Long, secretary

Andrea Charise, member

Erin L…[Read more]