“Scaling the Debt Wall and Other Barriers to Timely
Completion"
The Graduate Student Caucus is looking for papers, to be
presented at the 2002 MLA conference in NY, that deal with
the financial burdens of graduate school and how they can
affect timely completion of degrees. We are especially
interested in focusing on the growing wall of debt that
graduate students and the newly graduated have to face.
How does debt affect issues such as the balance between
teaching and finishing the degree? Have students had to
leave academia temporarily or permanently in order to
climb out of debt? What are the ways in which debt can
affect the profession as a whole?
As well as discussing the problems that exist, we would
like this panel to be positive, informative, and maybe
even mobilizing. Are there schools that are handling the
debt or the time to completion issues in a particularly
effective way? How can universities, departments, and
students work together on these issues?
Abstracts should be 250 words long (detailed suggestions
and a brief outline of the topics to be covered in the
presentation, rather than formal proposals will be
accepted) and sent to Jean Schulte at: schulte@att.net by
March 28, 2002. Please keep in mind that all presenters
must be current MLA members by April 1, 2002.
-- Jean Schulte PhD Candidate, English CIQR Graduate Assistant Duquesne University Vice President, Graduate Student Caucus, Modern Language Association=============================================== From the Literary Calls for Papers Mailing List CFP@english.upenn.edu Full Information at http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/ or write Erika Lin: elin@english.upenn.edu ===============================================
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