MLA Commons | Margaret Hanzimanolis | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/hanzimano/activity/ Activity feed for Margaret Hanzimanolis. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 a950526993a0c8516f8796cb782fe031 Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Deadline fast approaching for travel grants in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/deadline-fast-approaching-for-travel-grants/ Sun, 08 Nov 2015 01:06:52 -0500 Part-time faculty and other contingent faculty are eligible for travel grants to attend the convention in Austin.

Here’s the link:
https://www.mla.org/Resources/Career/MLA-Honors-and-Awards/MLA-Financial-Assistance/Non-Tenure-Track-Faculty-Members-and-Unemployed-Members-Traveling-to-the-Convention

]]> 0 3f2a893df87582064deaa13f03fb8d35 Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic New documentary release yesterday! in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-and-contingent-faculty-issues/forum/topic/new-documentary-release-yesterday/ Wed, 28 Oct 2015 21:01:43 -0400 Freeway Fliers can be found here. It contains very interesting observations, including a point about the tenure process now being very much complicit in the de-radicalization of the professoriate!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hsMUuEpxO0

]]> 0 397390bd3464405e45cd79bbda73d5a2 Margaret Hanzimanolis posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/423536/#acomment-423592 Tue, 08 Sep 2015 18:02:14 -0400 Yes, it’s great. I think Bennet Carpenter was the origin of the title!

In reply to - dr. bonnie lenore kyburz posted an update @hanzimano loving your proposed subconf title! ]]> 159c4a298f1d03d487e104edd5ff97fc Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic CFP: Between the Public and its Privates (MLA Subconference) in the discussion Media and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/media-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-between-the-public-and-its-privates-mla-subconference/ Tue, 08 Sep 2015 16:44:28 -0400 The Public and its Privates

Submission deadline: October 16, 2015
Submit to: mlasubconference@gmail.com

Between the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum Books
January 6-7, 2016
Location: Studium Art Space
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702

Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public…[Read more]

]]> 0 117627b04d3285dce018e5fbc4c98bbe Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic CFP: The Public and its Privates in the discussion Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/autobiography-biography-and-life-writing/forum/topic/cfp-the-public-and-its-privates/ Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:43:17 -0400 Between the Public and Its Privates
Third Annual MLA Subconference
in partnership with Punctum Books

January 6-7, 2016 (FREE)
Location: Studium Art Space (FREE)
638 Tillery St., Austin, TX 78702

As the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to…[Read more]

]]> 0 b639a34b216b6b1e90d4ebcf9abae1ed Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MLA subconference call for papers in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/mla-subconference-call-for-papers/ Sun, 06 Sep 2015 21:38:50 -0400 As the 2016 MLA Convention turns to consider “Literature and its Publics” the third annual meeting of the MLA Subconference challenges participants to propose sessions somewhere “Between the Public and its Privates”.

Today it seems almost impossible to point to the public without uncovering its uncanny twin–the private. Consider Google’s Han…[Read more]

]]> 0 58438bdda257d859c6b66dc38977ac1a Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic New Initiative for articulating support for contingent faculty in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/new-initiative-for-articulating-support-for-contingent-faculty/ Thu, 19 Feb 2015 06:18:33 -0500 I hope members of his discussion group can utilize the MLA site for registering one’s support for contingent faculty both within the MLA and in one’s department, union, and institution.  Here’s the…[Read more]

]]> 0 88fa1da7bb67cf5343a6f8dc4a147297 Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic Correction to the Record on the Delegate Assembly Vote in the discussion MLA Members for Justice in Palestine http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/correction-to-the-record-on-the-delegate-assembly-vote-2/#post-6458 Sun, 18 Jan 2015 17:58:49 -0500 Thank you all for the discussions.

One correction, Russell A. Berman (this claim was in another thread on the “other” MLA Commons Page) :  Factually, I called for a suspension of a declared 15 minute break so that the DA could get to the MOTION on MLA  governance and the inclusion of PTF, which I and others had spent many months developing, w…[Read more]

]]> 0 f7356e1da1e1744885ed1bf69a3cb5d9 Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic #Precariat conversation at Shanker Institute in the discussion Part-Time Faculty Members http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/precariat-conversation-at-shanker-institute/#post-6444 Fri, 16 Jan 2015 22:01:42 -0500 Thanks for doing this, Nicky! I was tweeting away on another channel until Fabian Banga oriented me…

]]> 0 c0dcf2b1adfc061e7201861fd537045a Margaret Hanzimanolis commented on the post, “The Emergence of the ‘Precariat’: What Does The Loss of Stable, Well-Compensated Employment Mean for Education?”, on the site Part-time Faculty: Activism in the Discipline http://parttimefacultyactivisminthediscipline.mla.hcommons.org/2015/01/16/precariat/#comment-23808 Fri, 16 Jan 2015 21:59:04 -0500 Hey, Nicky–this is great. Pretty good comments all around! I am slowly getting the hang of short comments. I am the jerk with the three page email. Thanks 1,000,000 for doing this!

]]> 0e9b553d8498755d7c20ea55afdc4c8c Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MOTION for more PTF in governance PASSED in the forum Part-Time Faculty Members http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/motion-for-more-ptf-in-governance-passed/ Mon, 12 Jan 2015 17:25:16 -0500 We were successful in moving that a PTF be a required member of the Executive Council!  The motion, put forward by the radical caucus, also asked for more governance opportunities for PTF throughout the organization.  The dominance of tenured faculty in the MLA is beginning to topple. Please get in touch with me at hanzimanolis@gmail.com if you w…[Read more]

]]> 0 78ccd3333f9252f83edf1c0f3ce1603f Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Useful to review past, ratified MLA resolutions in the forum Scholarship, Censorship, Exclusion http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/scholarship-censorship-exclusion/forum/topic/useful-to-review-passed-ratified-mla-resolutions/ Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:30:32 -0500 Select resolutions from 1981 and 1986, ratified by the membership

 

1981 Delegate Assembly Meeting; 1982 membership vote

 

Resolution 1

Be it resolved that the Modern Language Association express its outrage and sorrow at the suppression of human rights in Poland, which involves the persecution and harsh detention of students, teachers,…[Read more]

]]> 0 54eaffe0aca84d4cdf7859b94d1b70e4 Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic Files and materials in the forum MLA Members for Justice in Palestine http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/files-and-materials/#post-6244 Wed, 31 Dec 2014 18:28:09 -0500 Here are a few key resolutions passed in the 1980s.  They are indisputably engaged with national and international issues:

 

1981 Delegate Assembly Meeting; 1982 membership vote

 

Resolution 1

Be it resolved that the Modern Language Association express its outrage and sorrow at the suppression of human rights in Poland, which involves the…[Read more]

]]> 0 c2999ef978e206bb338d97f0b4235c01 Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Nominees sought for the PT and other Contingent Faculty committee in the forum Part-Time Faculty Members http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/nominees-sought-for-the-pt-and-other-contingent-faculty-committee/ Tue, 30 Dec 2014 22:41:06 -0500 Please write to Maria Maisto, the incoming chair, if you would like to serve on this committee. It is a potentially important committee in an environment of rapidly increasing hospitality toward contingent and adjunct participation in the business of the MLA!

maria.maisto@newfacultymajority.info

]]> 0 d4082dcb3d1f3beb853a19f35de74571 Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic Resolution to Endorse the Boycott of Israeli Academic Institutions in the forum MLA Members for Justice in Palestine http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/mla-members-for-justice-in-palestine/forum/topic/resolution-to-endorse-the-boycott-of-israeli-academic-institutions/#post-6217 Mon, 29 Dec 2014 21:54:13 -0500 I am assuming that the agreement that this group made with the DAOC does not bind “other” groups or individuals from advancing a resolution similar to this one. How can the DA say that it will not entertain any resolutions before 2017 based on this agreement with a small group? Is that sort of pre-emptive maneuver not a violation of democratic…[Read more]

]]> 0 d143da9657d9d8a7e9d84b041ddc59b7 Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic 2015-1 MOTION WILL BE HEARD AT DELEGATE ASSEMBLY MTG. in the forum The Teaching of Writing http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/the-teaching-of-writing/forum/topic/2015-1-motion-will-be-heard-at-delegate-assembly-mtg/ Mon, 29 Dec 2014 21:28:03 -0500 Motion 2015-1:
Proposers of record: John Maerhofer and Margaret Hanzimanolis on behalf of the Radical Caucus in English and the Modern Languages

Whereas Part-Time Faculty (PTF) constitute over 50% of the faculty in the US, and presumably a similar percentage of language and literature faculty;

Whereas PTF are presumably and anecdotally…[Read more]

]]> 0 f6efce1b88616fc1eb19cfbc1083df5e Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic 2015-1 MOTION coming up at the Delegate Assembly mtg in the forum Teaching as a Profession http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-as-a-profession/forum/topic/2015-1-motion-coming-up-at-the-delegate-assembly-mtg/ Mon, 29 Dec 2014 21:14:18 -0500 Please consider attending the Delegate Assembly in order to support this MOTION:

Motion 2015-1:
Proposers of record: John Maerhofer and Margaret Hanzimanolis on behalf of the Radical Caucus in English and the Modern Languages
Supporting materials: Click here to see the information provided by the proposers.

Whereas Part-Time Faculty (PTF)…[Read more]

]]> 0 f3a69159e571fea2aabd908729699e35 Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Radical caucus sponsored motion in the forum Radical Caucus http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/radical-caucus/forum/topic/radical-caucus-sponsored-motion/ Mon, 29 Dec 2014 21:11:03 -0500 Motion 2015-1

Proposers of record: John Maerhofer and Margaret Hanzimanolis on behalf of the Radical Caucus in English and the Modern Languages
Supporting materials: Click here to see the information provided by the proposers.

Whereas Part-Time Faculty (PTF) constitute over 50% of the faculty in the US, and presumably a similar percentage of…[Read more]

]]> 0 4e3c541fae8561421ee9e61d2df0ab2a Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MLA MOTION 2015-1 on Part-time faculty in governance in the forum Part-Time Faculty Members http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/mla-motion-2015-1-on-part-time-faculty-in-governance/ Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:52:59 -0500 This motion was submitted by the radical caucus of the MLA, and will be discussed at the open hearing on Friday and the Delegate assembly on Saturday. Please come to both venues, if you can, to support the motion and speak in its behalf!

Motion 2015-1

Proposers of record: John Maerhofer and Margaret Hanzimanolis on behalf of the Radical Caucus…[Read more]

]]> 0 0ddb243b3864a244d365a5ea66f761b9 Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic MLA Subconference in Vancouver Wed, Jan 7-9,2015 in the forum Part-Time Faculty Members http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/mla-subconference-in-vancouver-wed-jan-7-92015/ Mon, 29 Dec 2014 20:42:20 -0500 Please consider attending this important conference, to be held on two days before the regular MLA.

http://mlasubconference.org/2015-program/

Subconference of the MLA “Non-Negotiable Sites of Struggle” January 7-9, 2015
Location: Simon Fraser University
Harbour Centre Joseph and Rosalie Segal Room

*co-sponsored by the TSSU

Wednesday, Jan…[Read more]

]]> 0 92d7ab874ef2e96205947b11ef5c039d Margaret Hanzimanolis replied to the topic Agenda for delegate assembly meeting. in the forum 2015 MLA Convention http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2015-mla-convention/forum/topic/agenda-for-delegate-assembly-meeting/#post-6178 Tue, 23 Dec 2014 06:12:16 -0500 Hi,

I am not seeing the full text of the proposed resolution/motion. I believe that you have indicated that it would be posted by “mid december.”

]]> 0 e8774767d12039c381b8a9d5b9993070 Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Agenda for delegate assembly meeting. in the forum 2015 MLA Convention http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2015-mla-convention/forum/topic/agenda-for-delegate-assembly-meeting/ Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:42:18 -0500 Please publicize the full motion that the DA will be considering in the ‘agenda” section of the DA materials webpage.

]]> 0 3460bc7749b2c73a154de1e53e6ba95d Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Travel Grant eligibility for Delegate Assembly members who are Part time, in the forum 2015 MLA Convention http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/2015-mla-convention/forum/topic/travel-grant-eligibility-for-delegate-assembly-members-who-are-part-time/ Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:40:48 -0500 The existence of travel grants to sitting DA members does not seem to be posted anywhere. I found out about this grant “by accident” on an unrelated twitter conversation. Please make sure that the travel grant page informs people of this grant, and please make the existence of this grant known to DA members who might be able to use it, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 eca7fefa8b33a913290b2577626291de Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic OPEN LETTER: Radical Caucus critique of the MLA Taskforce on graduate study in the forum Digital Humanities http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/open-letter-radical-caucus-critique-of-the-mla-taskforce-on-graduate-study/ Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:15:43 -0500 The following letter was sent on behalf of the radical caucus of the MLA members as a critique of the Taskforce Report on graduate study. The analysis of the taskforce report took part over a period of time on the radical caucus list, and was written by Margaret Hanzimanolis and Richard Ohmann, with help from many radical caucus members.

We…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f2cf2f4b065fab1f1b1591772793fab Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Critique of the MLA taskforce report on graduate study in the humanities in the forum Radical Caucus http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/radical-caucus/forum/topic/critique-of-the-mla-taskforce-report/ Sun, 16 Nov 2014 20:06:17 -0500 The following letter, based upon a close analysis of the MLA Taskforce Report on Graduate Study (2013) in the Humanities, written by Margaret Hanzimanolis, Dick Ohmann and others, and based upon discussion on the radical caucus list serve.

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Dear Professor…[Read more]

]]> 0 d6723d7d00dab43b1cd2461bbe51c34d Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update: @rfeal Would you consider reading a two page section of Joe […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/59174/ Thu, 27 Feb 2014 02:09:22 -0500 @rfeal Would you consider reading a two page section of Joe Berry’s classic, Reclaiming the Ivory Tower? Here is the sign up spreadsheet@ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AnRu6M-k0cvidEVNUktzUGtBUUlDRFJQNHZKYzEtYkE#gid=0

]]> 0 446f8a8c9aee7d169372bc3e48691447 Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues: PLEASE Consider reading a chapter of Joe Berry's book about […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/59173/ Thu, 27 Feb 2014 02:07:24 -0500 PLEASE Consider reading a chapter of Joe Berry’s book about organizing contingent workers. 12 sections still need readers! Collaboration! Once you sign up, you can write to the organizers (email on the spreadsheet) for further instructions. It’s easy with audacity, a recording program easily downloadable.…[Read more]

]]> 0 98f6468436886e065ea24692ca6e267b Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues: PLEASE Consider reading a chapter of Joe Berry's book about […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/59172/ Thu, 27 Feb 2014 02:07:06 -0500 PLEASE Consider reading a chapter of Joe Berry’s book about organizing contingent workers. 12 sections still need readers! Collaboration! Once you sign up, you can write to the organizers (email on the spreadsheet) for further instructions. It’s easy with audacity, a recording program easily downloadable.

]]> 0 55446a948cb9357140c66d56987a8300 Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic ADE Bulletin contains five or six articles about contingent and PTF in the forum Teaching as a Profession http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/teaching-as-a-profession/forum/topic/ade-bulletin-contains-five-or-six-articles-about-contingent-and-ptf/ Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:58:35 -0500 I Encourage folks to read this important issue of the ADE bulletin, and contribute to the conversation about the issues raised by posting in this forum!

Here’s the link:
https://www.mla.org/adefl_bulletin_t_ade153_0&land=1

]]> 0 7362450359dc28cadfcde6fd3224621c Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic ADE Bulletin contains five or six articles about part time faculty in the forum Part-Time Faculty Members http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/ade-bulletin-contains-four-articles-about-part-time-faculty/ Mon, 13 Jan 2014 17:53:14 -0500 Five or six articles in the current issue of the ADE Bulletin address important statistical and other issues related to PTF. Bayta Weinbaum, Karen Lentz Madison, Sue Doe, Jack Longmate and other contingent and precarious faculty members, or their allies, have written excellent analyses of the current status of PTF in the academy. We would like…[Read more]

]]> 0 e3cc2b5ae2fbb113dd6ee1361dc6fcf3 Margaret Hanzimanolis started the topic Election of new members! Next Year's Panel ideas? in the forum Part-Time Faculty Members http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/part-time-faculty-members/forum/topic/election-of-new-members-next-years-panel-ideas/ Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:39:59 -0500 Virginia Cooper joins us from Montana, and Lee Skallerup Bessette from Kentucky! We are overjoyed to have new members join the committee!

If you would like to work with the committee as a non-member of the Executive committee, please use this forum to direct us to initiatives that you believe will be useful for MLA 2015 in Vancouver, or during…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec3e6f328bc204e4e354f2e81a96115d Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues: NOMINATIONS DUE BY DEC 23 for the PTF Committee! The […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/51911/ Mon, 16 Dec 2013 18:36:39 -0500 NOMINATIONS DUE BY DEC 23 for the PTF Committee!

The Executive Committee for the Part-time Faculty Discussion Group would encourage members of this MLA Commons group to nominate themselves or some other active and hard-working Part time faculty member to serve on the committee. The term is four years. The group is eligible to put forward a…[Read more]

]]> 0 ec894d7c03d290f48696c8b484f621a8 Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues: This is an important call for 800 word responses to a […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/49929/ Tue, 19 Nov 2013 23:45:32 -0500 This is an important call for 800 word responses to a congressman’s inquiry about working conditions of part time faculty. Please make time this week or next to write your story.http://democrats.edworkforce.house.gov/eforum

]]> 0 de91b5f46cdf181e46b7efae67482358 Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update: @sdonohue Hey Stacey, I was trying to post something to […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/47311/ Thu, 17 Oct 2013 18:12:49 -0400 @sdonohue Hey Stacey, I was trying to post something to the two-year college group, and there is no forum. Is that the case for the PTF group. I can post but others can’t? In any event, you might change the settings so any member can make a forum post! I am going to check the settings on the PTF group. Maybe that is why all of these groups…[Read more]

]]> 2 8819de838e18fcb42c989ea448d0a66f Margaret Hanzimanolis posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/47151/#acomment-47310 Thu, 17 Oct 2013 18:05:02 -0400 Thanks for your input<karen.. Can you post this to the "document" . I think it is paragraph 146!

In reply to - Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues You recently received a notice from the MLA that you are invited to participate in the discussion of the groups and […] ]]> 692aa254eb7d5e2b0c3edbc66c49b112 Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues: California part time faculty! Please join CPFA […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/47170/ Thu, 17 Oct 2013 04:01:34 -0400 California part time faculty! Please join CPFA http://www.cpfa.org/ This is the only advocacy and educational organization in California that is specifically devoted to Part time faculty issues. We are involved in legislative analysis, advocacy, and building networks of activists. It’s only $40 per year, or $3.33 per month. The New Faculty…[Read more]

]]> 0 1da8f438cf48b8f39ec7942cc413d3a1 Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues: Deadline for travel grant application is November 1. Here's […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/47169/ Thu, 17 Oct 2013 03:55:39 -0400 Deadline for travel grant application is November 1.
Here’s the link: http://www.mla.org/assist_nontenure
Awards of up to $300 for NTT(which includes Part time faculty!) and graduate students. Hitch is that you don’t actually receive the money until a month or so after the convention. You can only apply once every three years. Please make use…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd9517c39c8c9398d4ef66979ed48dd8 Margaret Hanzimanolis posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/45106/#acomment-47168 Thu, 17 Oct 2013 03:52:18 -0400 Hi Pamela, Here’s the link:
http://www.mla.org/assist_nontenure

If you do make it, please join the Part time faculty for a great planned panel on “defining” –the language issues around contingency and Part time faculty members. I think it is saturday, around 5:00 pm!

In reply to - Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues MLA can provide travel funds for the annual convention for Part-time and contingent faculty, and graduate students. […] ]]> f91531fc4200abeeff458d174e1549de Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues: You recently received a notice from the MLA that you are […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/47151/ Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:30:21 -0400 You recently received a notice from the MLA that you are invited to participate in the discussion of the groups and how they are organized. Several respondents have suggested that the “Part-time faculty” group should be “changed” to the Non-Tenure-Track faculty group. There is a group that is “contingent labor in the professions” . It is a…[Read more]

]]> 2 ce2bb14b4b49eb8347991111238844eb Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update: @lparascondola Great to see you here, Leo! https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/47150/ Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:22:23 -0400 @lparascondola Great to see you here, Leo!

]]> 0 579eaba9df5d3d48c98fb9a395221ac0 Margaret Hanzimanolis posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/47087/#acomment-47146 Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:21:37 -0400 Hi Leo! Great to see you here!

In reply to - ]]> 01610489cd3a375df8a526ec5d969d47 Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update: @sdonohue Hi Stacey. The CCSF in san francisco has had its […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/45166/ Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:41:21 -0400 @sdonohue Hi Stacey. The CCSF in san francisco has had its accreditation revoked despite its excellent record in serving students, academically and culturally. The accreditation process is increasingly being controlled by foundations, Lumina among them. This resolution is directed towards the actions of ACCJC and will contain supporting docs…[Read more]

]]> 0 505373510b8beef0741713a4731ec2bc Margaret Hanzimanolis posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/40698/#acomment-45165 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:36:06 -0400 Wednesday, September 26, 2013

Dear Colleague:
I ask you to sign this “RESOLUTION ON ACCREDITATION”, which will be presented at the MLA Convention in January 2014 to the Delegate Assembly.

I, Margaret Hanzimanolis, am presenting this on behalf of the Radical Caucus of the MLA. The reason is this: every resolution requires an individual MLA member…[Read more]

In reply to - ]]> be75015d708948777475488eda9e779c Margaret Hanzimanolis posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/44397/#acomment-45164 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 14:35:42 -0400 Wednesday, September 26, 2013

Dear Colleague:
I ask you to sign this “RESOLUTION ON ACCREDITATION”, which will be presented at the MLA Convention in January 2014 to the Delegate Assembly.

I, Margaret Hanzimanolis, am presenting this on behalf of the Radical Caucus of the MLA. The reason is this: every resolution requires an individual MLA member…[Read more]

In reply to - ]]> 04464df05b44c8583891bfa7612df0df Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues: MLA can provide travel funds for the annual convention for […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/45106/ Thu, 26 Sep 2013 21:07:04 -0400 MLA can provide travel funds for the annual convention for Part-time and contingent faculty, and graduate students. Up to $300 will be awarded to qualifying PTF to defray convention expenses. for those who are also income eligible. Please make use of this generous travel grant!

]]> 3 58b5e1d45ca98b56da1bd82604a57de5 Margaret Hanzimanolis created the group Radical Caucus https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/42302/ Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:50:40 -0400 0 dafe34458125c7ff9b77f45781f31faa Margaret Hanzimanolis commented on the post, Call for Papers on Contingency!, on the site Part-time Faculty: Activism in the Discipline http://parttimefacultyactivisminthediscipline.mla.hcommons.org/2013/01/12/hello-world/#comment-3195 Wed, 11 Sep 2013 23:35:06 -0400 So sorry, Masood. I just saw this!

]]> 25de03b7b15c7723fa2f74fb8a562293 Margaret Hanzimanolis commented on the post, Discussion Item: Change of Name, on the site The Two-Year College http://thetwoyearcollege.mla.hcommons.org/2013/07/11/discussion-item-change-of-name/#comment-38 Fri, 12 Jul 2013 02:08:42 -0400 OH shit, you are changing it from two-year TO community college, for some reason I read it the other way. YES to the change, and you can delete my other comment!!

]]> 9dde924f154a5c9c07174d3eb605474b Margaret Hanzimanolis posted an update in the group HEP Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Issues: Cocal updates (posted weekly) from Joe Berry. To subscribe […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/34149/ Fri, 17 May 2013 18:51:05 -0400 Cocal updates (posted weekly) from Joe Berry. To subscribe to these, write to Joe Berry: joeberry@igc.org

UPDATES IN BRIEF AND LINKS

1. Backlash against online education
http://chronicle.com/article/Faculty-Backlash-Grows-Against/139049/

2. Possible strike at Columbia College,…[Read more]

]]> 0 b61660275b4c154ce36f72c7e5c28164 Margaret Hanzimanolis posted a new activity comment https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/29010/#acomment-29199 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 02:22:07 -0400 Thank you so much Gloria. I will forward your contact details. You might want to message me an EDU address (peter, you too!)

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