CONTENTS

From the Editor

Perspectives on the Profession

The Politics of Language Instruction
James Redfield

The UT-TEA-MLA Summer Institute for Foreign Language Professionals: Background Report and Evaluation
Rose L. Hayden

MLA Surveys of PhD Placement: Most Recent Findings and Decade-Long Trends
Bettina J. Huber, Denise M. Pinney, David E. Laurence, and Denise Bourassa Knight

On Being a Chair

What Do We Really Mean by Faculty Development?
Charles L. Babcock

Inquire, Hire, Inspire, Fire: The Chair and the New Faculty Member
Klaus Hanson

Dealing with the Dean: Acquiring Proficiency in Administration
Margaret E. W. Jones

Women and the Academy

Promoting Demeter
Ruth El Saffar

Gender in the Prism-House of Language
Joan Hinde Stewart

The Curriculum and the Classroom

Curricular Issues and Language Research: The Shifting Interaction
Janet K. Swaffar

Facing the Blackboard: Student Perceptions of Language Learning and the Language Classroom
Elaine K. Horwitz