by P.D. Lesko

I WANT TO begin this month's column by expressing my sincere hope that this issue of the magazine finds all of our readers and their families safe and sound. In July and August, I visited New York to meet with marketing representatives from many of the academic and scholarly publishing houses located throughout Manhattan. I feared most, though, for my friends at the Modern Language Association, their new offices located just a few blocks from the site of the disaster. I've been told that the MLA's staff was evacuated without serious injury, and their office building has since been deemed structurally sound.

I also want to talk a bit about this issue of the magazine. When I sent the magazine's staff and free-lance writers out to find out more about visiting faculty in America, I had high hopes that they would come back with some surprises. Jennifer Berkshire reported back to me during the process of writing her feature piece that there just weren't any statistical data out there which would pinpoint the exact number of visiting faculty in this country. We decided, then, that she would collect anecdotal information. My hypothesis in devoting an entire issue to the theme of "Visiting Faculty," was that the numbers of temporary appointments for visiting faculty is steadily rising.

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