Academia Jobs Forecast Bleak: In one of many consequences of the national economic downturn on higher education, the Modern Language Association (MLA) projects a significant drop in faculty opportunities in English and foreign languages and literature, according to a report released today.
In the steepest decline in more than three decades, the positions advertised in MLA's Job Information List - an authoritative collection of faculty positions in languages and literature at the nation's colleges and universities - are expected to plummet by 37 percent this academic year.
This comes after the job list had a 26-percent drop last year, the second biggest backslide since its launch in the 1975-76 academic year.
