[I.] Evaluating scholarship for tenure and promotion. Report of the MLA Task Force on Evaluating Scholarship for Tenure and Promotion
A dean's view of the MLA report / Catharine R. Stimpson
Second thoughts on the notion of raising standards / John Guillory
A more capacious view of scholarship / Donald E. Hall
Disciplinary societies and evaluating scholarship: a view from history / Stanley N. Katz
Tenure, publication, and the shape of the careers of humanists / Lindsay Waters
Rethinking peer review and the fate of the monograph / Caroline Levine
The junior faculty handbook / Diana Fuss
Tenure, promotion, and textual scholarship at the teaching institution / John M. Ulrich
Two reasons why this report matters (an admittedly small-minded response) / Paul Hanstedt. [II.]The university and the high school. Our undemocratic curriculum / Gerald Graff
Quick fixes and student potential / Deborah Meier
K-16: our dogmatic slumbers / David Steiner. [III.] The affirmative activism project. Affirmative activism / ADE Ad Hoc Committee on the Status of African American Faculty Members in English
The Affirmative Activism Project / Juana María Rodríguez
Examining the relation between race and student evaluations of faculty members: a literature review / Dana A. Williams
Deep surveillance: tenure and promotion strategies for scholars of color / Daniel Heath Justice and Debra K.A. Barker. [IV.] Reports from the Field. The historicization of literary studies and the fate of close reading / Jane Gallop
Hyper and deep attention: the generational divide in cognitive modes / N. Katherine Hayles
Academic literacy and the discipline of English / James F. Slevin
The humanities, globalization, and the transformation of the university / Russell A. Berman
Spanish: the foreign national language / Carlos J. Alonso. [V.] Letters. [V.] MLA report. Foreign languages and higher education: new structures for a changed world / Ad Hoc Committee on Foreign Languages.