The College of Arts and Sciences has joined the Modern Language Association’s (MLA) Strategic Partnership Network (SPN), which confers membership in the MLA to eighteen departments and programs devoted to the study of language, literature, and culture, including for faculty – tenure track and non-tenure track, full and part-time – graduate students and postdocs.
“We felt this is an important resource that should be available to our humanists at all levels, whether they have the resources to pay for membership or not,” said Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences. “It’s also an opportunity to strengthen the ties between humanists at Cornell and those around the country and the world.”
The MLA is the largest professional association in the humanities and offers professional development, research and advocacy resources. Twenty-three institutions of higher education participate in the SPN, including Ivy League members Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Brown.
The MLA institutional membership through the Strategic Partnership Network offers a number of benefits, including:
• half-price convention registration for all graduate students, postdocs and part-time faculty members;
• year-round resources for non-tenure track faculty, including professional development webinars, career planning resources and mentoring structures;
• department and program membership in MLA’s Academic Program Services MAPS , its program-based professional development organization; and
• two free registrations for the MAPS in-person summer seminars and online leadership institutes for department chairs and program leaders.