The Absurd State of the Modern Language Association

if you want to worry about the state of political correctness in higher education today you need only look at the recent confab of the Modern Language Association.

Higher education in the US and around the world is going through one of the toughest times in the last several decades to what did the MLA discuss? They adopted a resolution which called for tenure for all professors - “and expressing the view that “[a]ll higher education employees should have appropriate forms of job security, due process, a living wage and access to health care benefits” Cary Nelson, a professor of English at the University of Illinois, spoke on the resolution with the following expertise on the current state of the language “It ain’t a high bar, but many are below it,”- Gee professor Nelson - I are really impressed. At a time when many universities in the country have tenure rates of seventy to eighty percent, John Franklin Crawford (a retired professor) worried about “the prospect of real catastrophe” if academics of all stripes don’t band together to fight against the "adjunctification" of higher education.

They avoided even a mild resolution on Ward Churchill the fraud from the University of Colorado who was dismissed for cause. Grover Furr, a professor at the distinguished Montclair State,offered the following defense of Churchill's antics “He is allowed to say disgusting and horrible things … and not be penalized by a governmental institution” Oh wait,Churchill was the employee of a governmental institution (the University of Colorado) and he seems to have obtained his position using fraudulent credentials.

This kind of thing would be humorous if it were not an indication of the oddities in a good part of the academic community.