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The article presents an exploration into the proper methods of attending and participating academic conferences as a college professor. The importance of keeping up with fellow academes within an individual field is stressed and advice is given for submitting work and garnering the most benefits from meetings. Advice for submitting papers includes attention to quality over quantity and also attending to the logistics of good oratory skills. Casual suggestions to enjoy the location and entertainment aspects of the venues are also given.

The article reports that several academics who presented papers at the American Psychological Association convention in Los Angeles, California put their work on a mainframe computer at the University of Houston at University Park so their colleagues could read them on the Bitnet network. Putting the papers on the network allowed people to read them in advance and to avoid information overload problem.

Examines problems with academic conventions in the 1990s. The intellectual rigidity and political correctness of many such conventions; The anachronistic practices of using the conventions to present papers and to made professional connections; Difficulty in using a convention as a way to find a job; The author's proposal of using the conventions as social events, rather than strictly professional ones.

The author discusses criticism of the format of academic conferences according to the article "The Scholarly Conference: Do We Want Democracy and Markets or Authority and Tradition?" by Mark Carl Rom, published in 2012 in the "Journal of Political Science Education." Topics include the lack of effective scholarly communication between college teachers, the nature of presentations related to unfinished research projects, and Rom's idea of selecting presentations by an electronic vote.

The article discusses the history of the academic organization Modern Language Association (MLA) and its annual conference since 1883. Topics include the history of literary criticism and scholarship in the U.S., the relation of the MLA to cultural and political issues, and the history of job listings for faculty positions as part of the MLA's Job Information List database.

The author, a professor of literature near retirement, reflects on the Modern Language Association (MLA) conferences he has attended throughout his career, with topics including his job interviews at several college campuses early in his career, the challenges of being promoted within his department, and the process of obtaining a tenure-track academic job.

The article discusses research by scientists at the department of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Kansas that claims that faculty members in the United States who have foreign undergraduate degrees appear to be more productive as researchers than are those who earned their degrees domestically. The findings, which were presented at the 2009 American Educational Research Association conference, attributed the data to the fact that only the best professors from other countries are able to get jobs at American colleges.

Compares academic conferences in Japan and the United States. Difference in the number of sessions; Purpose of knowledge; Vocational imperatives of presenters; Delineation between those who read papers and those who heard them; Absence of badges in Japan; Camaraderie among college teachers.

The article presents the author's comments on the importance of promoting active learning among the students. If teachers cherish their disciplines' survival, they should consider how to meet students halfway by encouraging active learning, multigenre projects, and writing for real-world audiences or for publication. They need not jettison their favorite texts and concepts to do this. Instead of another paper about Plato's Symposium, shared only with a professor, why not conduct a symposium with chat software, asking students to role-play the speakers, defining and debating their views of love, then writing formal rebuttals to each other.

The article reports on mass higher education as a threat to academic standards. In a speech by U. S. Vice-President Spiro Theodore Agnew, he criticized open admission policies and urged colleges not to lower their standards. Fritz Machlup, professor of Princeton University gave his views on this issue in a paper at a recent conference sponsored by the Educational Testing Service. Excerpts on Machlup's paper are presented in the article.

This article focuses on Gerald Graff, author of the book "Professing Literature: An Institutional History," and an idea that he has for academic tenure. A conference was held to mark the book's twentieth anniversary at which academics discussed subjects related to teachers and students. Francis J. Donoghue of Ohio State University expresses the view that young academics concentrate on getting published in order to gain professional prestige but university presses are publishing fewer books, making it more difficult to get into print. Graff's counter argument to Donoghue was that prestige should be based on the quality of teachers' ideas.

The article presents humorous advice for college teachers to survive faculty meetings. Suggestions include seat selection while pointing out the need to safely hide subversive activities, bringing along an "activity pack" of distractions and entertainments for the duration of the meeting, and being able to recognize points in the meeting where paying attention is actually important. An apology and concession to the individual running a faculty meeting is given, admitting the difficulty of the task and the importance of the meetings despite their inconvenience.

Presents updates on the activities and books about professor Robert Penn Warren as of November 16, 2001. Details of a symposium hosted by the Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge for Warren; Information on Warren; Donors of a professorship established by LSU in the author's name.

In this article the author offers advice to college teachers who are seeking employment at universities in foreign countries. She recommends that job hunters attend international academic conferences in order to establish networks with peers and mentors and suggests that such individuals familiarize themselves with the variations in languages used to describe open positions in academe. She also comments on the importance of tailoring one's résumé to the qualifications listed in job postings.

The article reports that Andre Gunder Frank, a West German teaching at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain, who has been denied entry to Canada on four occasions has received permission from the country's new Conservative government. The government has revealed that Frank may attend the International Congress of Americanists in Vancouver, British Colombia, where he has been invited to present a paper. The decision represents the government's effort to reverse Liberal policies.

The article states that in July 2004 an anonymous blogger revealed his identity when he allowed his photograph to be taken at the Democratic National Convention."Atrios," the writer of a prominent left-wing blog, Eschaton, turned out to be Duncan Black, an assistant professor of economics at Bryn Mawr College. Many young academics who are thinking about blogging share Black's dilemma. While blogging has real intellectual payoffs, it is not conventional academic writing and shouldn't be an academic's main focus if he or she wants to get tenure. But to dismiss blogging as a bad idea altogether is to make an enormous mistake. Academic bloggers differ in their goals.

The article discusses the provision of resources at academic conference sessions, such as lists of websites and book titles, referred to as resource bombing. The author argues that conferences for college teachers should involve panelists assessing resources. The topic is related to the revision of college courses by teachers. The evaluation of resources is addressed.

Several letters to the editor are presented in response to a question asking readers if they have experienced "conference guilt," a term used to describe a feeling of guilt among college teachers attending large, national conferences.

This article presents the author's experience for an additional job to finance an overseas trip. Last spring, when the organizers of an international conference in Great Britain accepted the author's proposal to present a workshop, he was ecstatic. But his enthusiasm quickly dampened when he learned that his university would contribute only $1,000 toward the trip's cost. The $1,000 would barely cover the registration fee. With only a few months to come up with the money, the author decided to seek a second job. His provost approved that plan, with the stipulation that the job not interfere with his primary administrative work.

Focuses on the 2003 Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture in Cooperstown, New York. Attendance at the symposium; Challenges of being a college professor teaching a course on baseball; Issues discussed at the symposium.