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Deidre Lynch posted an update in the group
LLC Late-18th-Century English on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoWe were so heartened by the outpouring of support on the MLA Commons and elsewhere for our attempts to resist the MLA’s proposal for a reorganization that would have seen the Divisions for Restoration and early 18th-century English literature and the Division for Later 18th Century English Literature collapsed into one very long Division indeed…[Read more]
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Laurence D. Roth posted an update in the group
LLC Jewish American on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoDear Members,
As we approach the upcoming convention, I want to urge all of you who’ll be in Chicago to attend our discussion group’s panel, “Jewish American or Jewish Americas?,” which will run on Sunday, January 12 at 12:00 noon at the Marriott in the Great America room (yes, oddly appropriate isn’t it).
To whet your appetite for our four…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month ago“NOMINATIONS DUE BY DEC 23 for the Two Year College Discussion Group
The Executive Committee for the Two Year College Discussion Group encourages members of this MLA Commons group to nominate themselves or some other community college faculty member (full or part time) to serve on the executive committee. The term is four years. The group is…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoNOMINATIONS DUE BY DEC 23 for the PTF Committee!
The Executive Committee for the Part-time Faculty Discussion Group would encourage members of this MLA Commons group to nominate themselves or some other active and hard-working Part time faculty member to serve on the committee. The term is four years. The group is eligible to put forward a…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 12 years, 1 month agoWelcome, Linda Weinhouse, from the Community College of Baltimore County, to the Executive Committee of the Two Year College Discussion Group!
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoThe Discussion Group on the Two Year College is holding a business meeting for Executive Committee members immediately following session 213, at 10:15am, in the Illinois Room at the Marriott. At 11am, however, we invite any interested members to join us! For more information, contact Stacey Donohue, sdonohue@cocc.edu.
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoThis is an important call for 800 word responses to a congressman’s inquiry about working conditions of part time faculty. Please make time this week or next to write your story.http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/eforum
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoDear colleagues,
I wanted to post an announcement about a CFP for the second annual Transition & Transactions Conference at my junior college, BMCC-CUNY. (http://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/english/page.jsp?pid=1024&n=Transitions%20and%20Transactions%20II%20-%20Call%20for%20Papers)
Thanks,
David Bahr, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
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Jessica Winston started the topic Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English at Idaho State U. in the discussion
The Teaching of Writing on MLA Commons 12 years, 2 months agoIdaho State University (ISU) has a distinctive program Ph.D. program that might interest members of this group or their students.
The Ph.D. in English and the Teaching of English integrates research in literature with practical and theoretical training in the teaching of composition and literature. The aim of the program is to prepare graduates…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoHi all,
Looks like our membership is growing—this is very exciting!
I’m still learning MLA Commons, but it looks like only administrators have access to the Announcements page. If you want to share information, please post it to the blog or email me and I can post it to the Announcements page (sdonohue at cocc dot edu).Stacey
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Correction: I’ve added a bulletin board style “forum” to the Two Year College Discussion Group (looks like we had one last year but it was not “active”). If you’d prefer to have a discussion there instead of on the blog, that’s another tool.
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This forum is fine. Thanks for taking care of this.
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Correction: I’ve added a bulletin board style “forum” to the Two Year College Discussion Group (looks like we had one last year but it was not “active”). If you’d prefer to have a discussion there instead of on the blog, that’s another tool.
Stacey
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoCalifornia part time faculty! Please join CPFA http://www.cpfa.org/ This is the only advocacy and educational organization in California that is specifically devoted to Part time faculty issues. We are involved in legislative analysis, advocacy, and building networks of activists. It’s only $40 per year, or $3.33 per month. The New Faculty…[Read more]
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoDeadline for travel grant application is November 1.
Here’s the link: http://www.mla.org/assist_nontenure
Awards of up to $300 for NTT(which includes Part time faculty!) and graduate students. Hitch is that you don’t actually receive the money until a month or so after the convention. You can only apply once every three years. Please make use…[Read more] -
Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months agoYou recently received a notice from the MLA that you are invited to participate in the discussion of the groups and how they are organized. Several respondents have suggested that the “Part-time faculty” group should be “changed” to the Non-Tenure-Track faculty group. There is a group that is “contingent labor in the professions” . It is a…[Read more]
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Definitely keep this as part-time faculty. Universities such as Tiffin University do not have ANY tenure track employees/faculty as all full-time faculty are not tenured and no tenure is possible there. There is definitely a distinction between full-time and part-time and that does not necessarily equal tenured/non-tenured.
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Thanks for your input<karen.. Can you post this to the "document" . I think it is paragraph 146!
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 4 months agoMLA can provide travel funds for the annual convention for Part-time and contingent faculty, and graduate students. Up to $300 will be awarded to qualifying PTF to defray convention expenses. for those who are also income eligible. Please make use of this generous travel grant!
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I didn’t know this. My English Dept. refused to support my travel which is why I didn’t attend last year’s conference. Where and how do we apply for the funds?
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Hi Pamela, Here’s the link:
http://www.mla.org/assist_nontenureIf you do make it, please join the Part time faculty for a great planned panel on “defining” –the language issues around contingency and Part time faculty members. I think it is saturday, around 5:00 pm!
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Thanks! This is very helpful. Maybe I’ll be able to make it. Let me look into airfares.
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 12 years, 7 months agoThe Community College Humanities Association’s session at MLA14 will be listed as part of the Presidential Theme:
Friday, 10 January
418. Vulnerability and Survivalism of the Humanities in Corporatized Academia
5:15–6:30 p.m.
Program arranged by the Community College Humanities Association
Presiding: Steven Hymowech, Fulton-Montgomery C…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 12 years, 7 months agoThe Discussion Group on the Two Year College has two panels at the 2014 MLA Convention in Chicago. Below is the description, just received, for one of the panels–please attend!
Friday, 10 January
213. Twenty-First-Century Pedagogies
Friday, January 10th: 8:30–9:45 a.m.
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on the Two-Year C…[Read more]
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 12 years, 8 months agoPlease help a Lane Community College colleague, Anne McGrail:
Please provide feedback on our DRAFT National Survey of Digital Humanities at the Community College. Don’t answer the questions yet—comment on them. Thanks! http://bit.ly/13h8Tqk -
Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 8 months agoCocal updates (posted weekly) from Joe Berry. To subscribe to these, write to Joe Berry: joeberry@igc.org
UPDATES IN BRIEF AND LINKS
1. Backlash against online education
http://chronicle.com/article/Faculty-Backlash-Grows-Against/139049/2. Possible strike at Columbia College,…[Read more]
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Thank you for posting this useful information, Deidre, and these encouragement to attend the Division sessions. I’m about to post something similar on the site for the Restoration & Early Eighteenth Century. I hope that the members of our Divisions who are attending MLA will be able to attend as many sessions as possible in both the Divisions.…[Read more]
On behalf of the Lexicography Discussion Group, which has also been threatened with consolidation (and effective elimination), let me draw the attention of members of this group our session, which should be of interest:
194. Title: Typography and Paratext in Early Modern Lexicography
Friday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., O’Hare, Chicago M…[Read more]