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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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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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Helen Fulton uploaded the file: Call for book proposals: New Century Chaucer to
Chaucer on MLA Commons 12 years, 6 months agoNew Century Chaucer is a book series launched by University of Wales Press. We are looking for editions of individual texts, monographs, and edited collections of essays on any aspect of Chaucer and his contemporaries. Send ideas and enquiries to Helen Fulton (helen.fulton@york.ac.uk) and see our Facebook page at:
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Stacey Lee Donohue posted an update in the group
HEP Community Colleges on MLA Commons 12 years, 6 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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Robert J. Meyer-Lee uploaded the file: Call for Manuscripts: Boydell and Brewer's Chaucer Studies series to
Chaucer on MLA Commons 12 years, 8 months agoBoydell and Brewer is seeking book proposals for its venerable Chaucer Studies series. Monographs are particularly encouraged but volumes of essays will be included when appropriate. Send proposals and inquiries to Caroline Palmer, Editorial Director, PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP12 3DF, UK cpalmer@boydell.co.uk.
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Ruth Evans uploaded the file: NCS Letter to MLA to
Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoThis letter is the New Chaucer Society’s response to the proposal that Old English, Middle English, and Chaucer might wish to reconfigure themselves into one new Division.
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Ruth Evans uploaded the file: NCS Letter to MLA to
Chaucer on MLA Commons 12 years, 9 months agoThis letter is the New Chaucer Society’s response to the proposal that Old English, Middle English, and Chaucer might wish to reconfigure themselves into one new Division.
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 10 months agoIs anyone interested in talking to a radio producer from NPR (marketplace show) on PT faculty issues? They are interested in “savings and spending” patterns and “whether the reliance on PTF is “sustainable”. They are particularly interested in California adjuncts, but if anyone is interested I would forward your name. Thanks!
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Margaret, I am a California Adjunct (San Diego) and would be delighted to speak with NPR/Marketplace. pjacoby@sdccd.edu
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When will they be airing the story?
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Not sure about that, Louisa. I will let you know!
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Thank you! Since you posted, I have heard a few segments about adjuncts from various NPR shows. Also, there’s a big meeting planned this weekend for adjuncts trying to organize in the Boston area. It makes me hopeful that change for the better could be coming.
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Margaret — How long ago did you get this request? I just heard from a colleague that NPR Marketplace already aired the story and that it did NOT accurately represent PTF issues. I haven’t had a chance to listen yet. See
“They boiled the issue down into a minute and a half, barely mentioned adjuncts. They mention fewer tenure track jobs…[Read more]-
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OK Good to know — this must mean that the request actually IS in response to the story that aired yesterday. Feel free to give them my contact info if they want to talk to someone outside of California and in a state where PTF face significant obstacles to unionizing.
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HI Peter. Thanks for writing. I will forward your contact info to the producer!
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Thanks.
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I would be willing to be contacted by NPR, but am in Arizona.
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Thank you so much Gloria. I will forward your contact details. You might want to message me an EDU address (peter, you too!)
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 10 months agoInteresting session at NEMLA this week: Joseph Ramsey speaks on unionism in higher education:
“Beyond Alienation and Contingency: the role of unions in higher education today”
Date, Time: Saturday, March 23rd, 11:45-1:15 am
Place: the Hyatt Regency Hotel (in the Ipswich Room).
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Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group
HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues on MLA Commons 12 years, 11 months agoCall for Papers: MLA Chicago!
Discussion Group: Part-Time Faculty Members
Perspectives on the language used to describe employment status. Short, focused presentations that examine distinct frameworks of definition, institutional integration, and resistance. Short roundtable presentation ideas. by 15 March 2013; Margaret Hanzimanolis…[Read more]
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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
This forum is fine. Thanks for taking care of this.
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