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Support Your Local Library Today: Advocacy Tips for Literary Enthusiasts of All Ages

26 Jun 2019

“Having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card.” —Arthur the Aardvark If you are reading this article, you are literate—a...

Resources for Contingent Faculty Members in Higher Education

20 May 2019

Contingent faculty members compose the majority of the teaching workforce in higher education today. A report produced at the American Institutes for...

Attention Graduate Student Members!

24 Apr 2019

Are you looking to grow your professional network, make new connections, and get career advice from distinguished scholars in the humanities fields?...

Going Public: Humanities beyond the Classroom

25 Sep 2018

What is the public value of the humanities? While perennial debates continue around attempts to answer that question, a public humanities movement...

Volunteering for Book Lovers: A Guide

08 Aug 2018

Calling all readers, writers, and book lovers! If language, literature, and the humanities are important to you, consider volunteering at these nonprofit...

Colleges Know What Students Need, but It’s Going to Take Some Convincing: Enter the Study the Humanities Toolkit!

03 Jul 2018

What is the purpose of a college education? What should an educated, twenty-first-century American know and be able to do? Ongoing debates...

MLA Launches Public Humanities Series

27 Jun 2018

The Modern Language Association (MLA) has long been known for its annual convention, the largest meeting for humanities scholars. Now the MLA...

Interested in Community College Careers? The MLA Has Resources for That

07 Nov 2017

Nearly 40% of all college students in the United States attend a community college. Two-year institutions are critical to the landscape of...

Tenth Annual Open Access Week

24 Oct 2017

23 October marked the beginning of the tenth annual Open Access Week, a yearly initiative sponsored by SPARC*. This global coalition is...

Resources for Teaching about Racism

13 Oct 2017

As schools open in the wake of recent events in Charlottesville and across the country, teachers at all levels are struggling to...

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Court Sets Narrow Standard in Application of Title lX

Decision could minimize colleges’ and universities’ responsibility for victims of sexual misconduct.

Concern Over Decline in National Reading Scores

On nation's report card, two out of three children did not meet the standards for reading proficiency.

Border Studies: Beyond the Boundaries of a Single Discipline

13 Nov 2019

In our increasingly interconnected world, the symbolic and material effects of borders and bordering have generated growing interest from scholars across the humanities and social sciences, leading to the emergence, in the last few decades, of border studies as a major field of pedagogy. The burgeoning field of border studies encompasses a broad range of...

Who Are Today’s College Students? The Marginalized Majority

04 Nov 2019

Given the depiction of the American college experience in television, movies, and the nightly news, you might think typical high school seniors spend months visiting prospective colleges; writing and rewriting admissions essays; practicing, taking, and retaking standardized tests; and nervously waiting to see if they have been admitted to one or more of the top...