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Words to Banish ... and Words to Use
Lake Superior State University on Thursday issued its annual "List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use...
Hopkins Shares Too Much Information in Faculty Search
The history department at Johns Hopkins University angered many of those applying for a faculty job in early modern European...
Bleak News on the Front Lines
PHILADELPHIA -- Already down hundreds of job openings, the Modern Language Association discovered, at its annual meeting here, that it...
Obama Issues Declassification Order
President Obama last week issued an executive order that would speed up the release of classified material to the public...
Tweetup at the MLA
PHILADELPHIA -- A tweetup -- that is, a gathering of Twitter users -- tends to be a casual affair, more...
Florida Scholarship Students Pay for Dropped Courses
Florida, among the states looking to save money on generous merit scholarship programs for students who meet certain grade requirements...
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Job crisis broadens. After MLA reports collapsing market for language professors, history and economics groups reveal huge drops in faculty positions.
Charges Detailed on Fired Texas Tech Coach
Texas Tech University on Saturday released an affidavit from an athletic trainer saying that he was told by Mike Leach...