One-third of college students need remedial coursework, teaching associate John Dunn told the crowd at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association (MLA) late last year.
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Activist Academics at MLA
If the largest conclave of college English professors in the country sometimes sounded like a Democratic Party strategy session at the Modern Language Association meeting late last year, it might be because the two groups’ membership rolls have an overlap.
Inside the MLA
Even sympathetic observers of the Modern Language Association (MLA) offer up vignettes about what may be the world’s largest collection of English professors that make the group look rather odd.
MLA Guide to Terror TV
The Modern language Association’s panel on “Terrorism, Technology and Visual Media” helped show just how loosely the higher education establishment now defines the term “liberal arts.”
Composition without Writing
Among college English professors, the passing on of literary traditions and literacy has gone from avocation to afterthought to alien concept, as can be seen in the annual conventions of the Modern Language Association.
MLA Guide to Religion
The Modern Language Association, which represents thousands of College English professors nationwide, is actually trying to understand religion in American life.
Brokeback University
Philadelphia is not just a place where Broadway shows go on out of town tryouts. When the Modern Language Association meets there, Ph.D. candidates test their theses there too.
MLA Guide to World War II
The often-esoteric Modern Language Association is commemorating a conflict too rapidly fading from collective memory—World War II— but the eclectic amalgamation of thousands of college and high school English professors is doing so in a manner that obscures key facts about the war, namely, what was at stake.
MLA Gets Even More Political
If you thought that the Modern Language Association was a highly politicized group whose real activities belied its innocuous-sounding name, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
McCarthy Madness
Cries of McCarthyist oppression keep coming from the left and the Modern Language Association convention is no exception.