January 13, 2006

MLA Offers Preview of Report on Tenure and Votes to Oppose 'Academic Bill of Rights'

By JENNIFER HOWARD

Tenure and academic freedom were on the agenda at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association here last month. An MLA committee previewed its forthcoming report on evaluating scholarship for tenure and promotion, and the association's Delegate Assembly took a stand on a proposed "academic bill of rights."

The MLA's Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion gave a preliminary report on its survey of tenure-review practices in 671 literature departments at

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