MLA Initiative: The Academy in Hard Times

#MLA11 notes, from Teaching College English, blogged by Dr Susanna Davis. 

About initiative: With the academy facing one of the most difficult periods in its history, the MLA Program Committee has designated 6 January 2011, the first day of the Los Angeles convention, as a focal point for a series of panels and workshops on the theme The Academy in Hard Times. Program and schedule for initiative sessions.

Closing session, 167 at 7pm, speakers 

Christopher John Newfield, U

C Santa Barbara, and Gary Rhoades, 

AAUP, are also on the Counter-conference program. 

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The second MLA special initiative is The Academy in Hard Times. Two colleagues and I have a panel in this section of the MLA, In Our Own Image: Remaking Academia in a Changing Economic Climate [scheduled for January 6, 5:15 pm at the LA Convention Center]

Position statements are available for this panel:

• Dr. Debbie J. Williams of Abilene Christian University has a short post on her paper, Reinventing the Academic Self: When the Professional and the Personal Collide, available.
• Dr. Susan G. Cotton of Lone Star College has a short post on her paper,Unexpected Benefits: Re-visioning an Academic Through Campus Involvement, available.
• And Dr. Susanna H. Davis, previously of Houston Baptist University and now of Houston Community College: Central, has a short post on her paper,Avoiding Academic Rigor Mortis: From Teaching Zombie to Animated Scholar, available.

This panel, number 133, will be presenting on Thursday, January 6, at 5:15 in 406A of the LA Convention Center. Photograph from monkeyfister.blogspot.com.