The 2012 Delegate Assembly approved two resolutions. The assembly’s action is not final, however, since the MLA constitution requires a ratification vote in each instance. Members are therefore encouraged to review this year’s ratification ballot, which is now available in the members-only area of the MLA Web site, and to exercise their right to vote. All members in good standing as of 11 April are eligible to vote. The ballot will remain available until 5:00 p.m. EDT on 1 June.

The Academic Workforce Data Center, an online resource that presents Department of Education (DOE) data about the composition of the academic workforce, is now live. We encourage you to look up statistics on part-time, full-time, tenure-track, and non-tenure-track instructors at your institution and to take a survey about your own experiences there. Data from this project will be collected in the coming months and, together with the DOE data, will provide a fuller and more up-to-date portrait of conditions of academic employment on the nation’s campuses than what is currently available.

Members can log in to renew their association membership for 2012. Nonmembers can join the association for 2012, and former members can reinstate their membership. Find out more about member benefits and what your dues support.

Enrollments in Languages Other Than English in United States Institutions of Higher Education, Fall 2009 is a comprehensive report detailing enrollments in over two hundred languages taught in US colleges and universities. The survey report shows that language course enrollments have continued to grow over the past decade and are diversifying to include an increasingly broad range of languages.

Enrollments from the twenty-two surveys conducted between 1958 and 2009 are available in a new searchable database.

The MLA Language Map can now display fall 2009 language enrollments at colleges and universities throughout the United States.

The Language Map and its Data Center provide information, from US Census 2000 and the 2005 American Community Survey, about more than 47,000,000 people in the United States who speak languages other than English at home.

The MLA is a founding member of the Coalition on the Academic Workforce (CAW), a group of higher education associations, disciplinary associations, and faculty organizations committed to addressing issues associated with deteriorating faculty working conditions and their effect on college and university students in the United States. We encourage MLA members to visit the CAW Web site and read the coalition’s issue brief.

The contents of the September issue of PMLA now appear exclusively online. Regularly updated, the online directory gives members more accurate information to help plan convention sessions, apply for fellowships and grants, and take advantage of other MLA resources. A printed list of 2012 members is available for purchase on the dues form or when you renew online.

A collection of resources designed to help all members of the academic community advocate for the right working conditions for faculty members and the ideal learning environment for students. The kit includes two MLA reports published in December 2008: "Education in the Balance: A Report on the Academic Workforce in English" and "Demography of the Faculty: A Statistical Portrait of English and Foreign Languages."

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