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On the national scale, the number of available positions in the field of English, for instance, has dropped 35 percent from last year. Similarly, those in foreign languages have dropped 39 percent, according to the MLA.
But however compelling the idea may be, the University finds itself recovering from the recent recession and facing an uncertain financial future, one that restricts its ability to engage in new capital ventures.
“We still remain in a financially constrained moment,” Hammonds says. “We cannot build a new student center right now.”
And some of the OSL’s shortcomings could be due to the sheer mass of student groups, around 400 in total, Nelson says.
In the most competitive year for humanities graduate students entering the field of academia since the Modern Language Association began tracking academic job trends 35 years ago, some administrators maintain that students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences are an anomaly to the grim national picture.