Dear Colleague:

The MLA, a founding member of the Coalition on the Academic Workforce
(CAW), invites members of the contingent academic workforce in US
colleges and universities to participate in a CAW survey of fall 2010
course assignments, salaries, benefits, and general working
conditions.

If you are a teacher, postdoctoral fellow, or research worker employed
off the tenure track in one or more postsecondary institutions, we
encourage you to take the survey and to forward the survey to your
friends and colleagues. Your participation will help CAW create a more
accurate picture of contingent academic workers' professional lives
and working conditions and better enable CAW and the MLA to advocate
for contingent academic workers.

The survey is available through 30 November 2010 at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VNNNRVS.

For more information about CAW, visit www.academicworkforce.org.

Survey participants are eligible to win one of several $50 bookstore
gift certificates to be awarded in December.

Thank you for taking the time to complete the survey and make your voice heard.

Cordially,



Rosemary G. Feal
Executive Director
Modern Language Association