Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Ivory towers are feeling the economic pinch

Ivory towers are feeling the economic pinch
Applicants outnumber college teaching jobs as the Modern Language Assn. meets.

Shakespeare, Edith Wharton and Internet poetry were supposed to be among the main topics of discussion at the largest gathering of humanities professors in the nation. But the sour economy and shrunken job market for academics proved to be more dramatic than any novel or play.

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