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- Support legislation that would require institutions to reach a 75% tenure-track workforce to receive federal funding. Read the MLA statement and contact Senator Patty Murray, chair of the drafting committee, to advocate for this law. mla.org/About-Us/Gover…
- In a new Executive Council statement, the MLA endorses the right of graduate student workers to organize unions that will represent their members and their interests to university administrations. mla.org/Resources/Advo…
- We're excited to announce that the MLA has received a million-dollar @MellonFdn grant to support teaching at community colleges and other access-oriented institutions. news.mla.hcommons.org/2019/01/02/mla…
- It’s official: #mla21 is going virtual! It’s a big move, but we’re committed to bringing you the 700+ sessions that MLA members worked so hard to put together. And we’re inviting submissions for dozens of new sessions focused on timely topics and big questions facing us now. 1/3
- We’re thrilled to have been awarded a $1.5 million grant by the @MellonFdn to promote recruitment and retention of students in the humanities. We’ll be giving programs tools to help students find success throughout their education and after graduation. news.mla.hcommons.org/2023/03/22/mla…
- We understand how uncertain things are right now and have reached out to organizers to ask if they’d like to change their panels to online or postpone. Hundreds of #mla22 sessions are taking place online, so we hope that members who aren’t coming to DC will join us virtually.
- Thank you, everyone, for alerting us to the hack to our #mla21 cfp site. Our convention team is working to take down the calls for papers. We ask that people refrain from circulating these calls.
- .@MLANews has published Guidelines for Evaluating Publicly Engaged Scholarship in Language and Literature Programs. Read them here and check out the 🧵 for highlights on using the guidelines to support public humanities work at *your* institution. mla.org/Guidelines-Pub…
- By popular demand, the #MLA has responded to your question, HOW DO I CITE A TWEET? mla.org/style/handbook… #mlahandbook
- Looking for more materials for moving your course online? We've just released a preview of Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities, a curated collection of resources for teaching and research. Check out the keywords and build your own collections of artifacts: digitalpedagogy.hcommons.org.
- "[T]he MLA calls on colleges & universities to implement practices that will ward off disastrous consequences for graduate students; contingent faculty members, incl. adjunct, postdoctoral, NTT, & graduate instructors; untenured faculty members; and intl. scholars & students"
- How did @arishapiro get his first job at @NPR? “[T]the key is a liberal arts education teaches you how to read, write and think. . . . Those are skills I use every day as a journalist, . . . and they're skills I learned as an English major.” #humanities
- We’ve just launched an emergency grant program to help part-time faculty members who’ve been hard hit by the outbreak. The $500 grants will be awarded by lottery. Application deadline is 1 May. mla.org/Resources/Care…