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Postings coming in. Check often.
Division Conferences for FALL of 2010
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Humanist, Spring 2009 (pdf).
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News
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Job Opportunities for Distance Learning: Faculty and Dean
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CCHA,
a member of the CAW, announces the New AFT Report
on Academic Staffing: Reversing Course:
The Troubled State of Academic Staffing and a Path Forward.
This report takes a close look at classes taught by contingent
faculty and also breaks that data down broadly by disciplines
as well. The AFT report also provide a model for costing out
how to "reverse course." You can access the report,
the model, press release and links to media coverage which has
been pretty positive so far (including getting a piece in USA
Today) at our FACE web site: www.aftface.org
Education
in the Balance
MLA Urges Chairs to Focus on Adjunct
Issues
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/07/qt#198364
The Modern Language Association is sending
a letter to all English and foreign language department chairs
urging them to organize discussions and activism to draw attention
to the treatment of adjuncts. The letter follows on both reports
and policy positions issued by the MLA, and urges discussions
with department members and administrators, publicizing "best
practices" on the use of non-tenure-track faculty members
(including minimum per course payments), urging the conversion
of part-time positions to full-time and so forth. The letter
also urges chairs to raise these issues when they sit on external
review panels on other campuses. "Especially in these
difficult economic times, we must vigorously make the case
for the relevance of an excellent humanities education," the
letter says. "Students need to be multiply literate, flexible,
keen in their interpretive capacities, and prepared to change
career direction several times over the course of their working
lives. They deserve well-trained and adequately paid faculty
members who, working under good conditions, are committed to
teaching and learning, have time to prepare classes and provide
adequate feedback to students, and have opportunities and support
for professional development and advancement. Those students
are our future. And those who stand before them in the classroom
are our future as well." |
2008 CCHA
Divisions
The
Humanities Essay Competition, sponsored by The
New York Times College Program and the
Community College Humanities Association, gives community
college students the opportunity to gain recognition for excellence
in the humanities. Students whose entries are judged to be winners
of this essay Competition will be eligible for cash prizes: 1st
prize, $500, 2nd prize, $300, 3rd prize, $200. Entry
Form
American
Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS,
in conjunction with the Department of State, is offering
a fully-funded Intensive Summer Language Institute for teachers
of Russian, Chinese and Arabic. For
program details go to http://apps.americancouncils.org/
SVHE
Institute on Religion in Curriculum and Culture of Higher Education ApplyNow!
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Summer Institutes for 2010
A National Endowment
for the Humanities Summer Institute for Community College
and
Four-Year College and University Faculty sponsored by the Community College Humanities
Association.
Complete Listing
for 2010 NEH Summer
Seminars and Institutes
Prospective applicants can start the application procedure by filling out a set
of coversheets here.
NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture
Workshopsfor Community College Teachers
Summer
2010
NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United
States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation,
and public programs in the humanities.
See the complete
listing of the Landmark Series for Summer 2010
Concord
Homepage and Dear Colleague
Letter for ConcordNovember 2009
Dear Colleague,
It is a pleasure to invite you to Concord, Massachusetts, the home—as
local Concordians like to say—of America’s “second
Revolution” (as well as, of course, its first). Some sixty
years after the “shot heard round the world” was fired
at the North Bridge, an extraordinary confluence of literary and social
forces brought together the likes of Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Amos Bronson Alcott and his soon-to-become
more famous daughter, Louisa May, in the village of Concord. The
result was a second “revolution” that forever changed the
American literary and cultural landscape.
Plymouth
Homepage and Dear
Colleague Letter
October 2009
Dear Colleagues,
It is a pleasure to invite you to Plymouth, Massachusetts where the
Pilgrims came ashore in 1620 from the Mayflower, built a settlement,
and survived the winter of 1620-21, with the assistance of the Wampanoag
Indians. As we approach the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrim landing,
it is time to reflect and consider new scholarship and archaeological
evidence about this seminal event in United States history.Read
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