In his recent article “The Last Professor” (NY Times, Jan 09), Stanley Fish outlines the current state of affairs in the Academy. Drawing on the recently published The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities (Fordham UP, 2008) by Frank Donoghue, Fish writes of the promotion of corporate values in learning, the shrinking number of tenure-stream positions within the Academy (currently 35% in the US), and the expendability of...
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The Los Angeles Review is looking for poetry that really kicks. If you just happen to have some you’d like to share in the 2009 issue, please send it to lareview.poetry@gmail.com. For more information and full guidelines, go to www.redhen.org/losangelesreview/ .
JUANITA TORRENCE-THOMPSON, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of MOBIUS, THE POETRY MAGAZINE, announced the first Dr. ZYLPHA MAPP ROBINSON INTERNATIONAL POETRY AWARD (2009). THEMES: Global Warming, Effects of the economy or any topic in Mobius’ 8 categories. READ contest guidelines at www.mobiuspoetry.com Submit via EMAIL ATTACHMENT three A List poems only to mobiusmag@earthlink.net DEADLINE: May 20, 2009. Snail mail entry fee $15 U.S. check or money...
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