ADE has established three e-mail discussion lists for department administrators. The lists are informational, not promotional, and do not publish conference announcements, calls for papers, or advertisements for programs of study or for open faculty or staff positions.

ADECH-L provides a moderated forum for department chairs to exchange queries and information with fellow chairs about issues of department administration. Chairs of ADE-member departments are automatically included on this list. The moderator of the list is David Laurence, Director of ADE, who can be reached at dlaurence@mla.org or 646 576-5130.

ADEDGS-L provides a moderated forum for directors of graduate study to exchange queries and information with fellow directors about administrative, curricular, and other issues affecting doctoral- and master's-level programs and their students and faculty members. As the director of graduate study of an ADE-member department, you are automatically included as a subscriber. The moderator of the list is Doug Steward, Associate Director of ADE, who can be reached at dsteward@mla.org or 646 576-5137.

MADEG-L provides a moderated forum for the exchange of queries and information about the master's degree in English. The moderator of the list is Doug Steward, Associate Director of ADE, who can be reached at dsteward@mla.org or 646 576-5137.

We invite you to share your questions, concerns, experiences, and advice with your colleagues. You can subscribe to or sign off a list at any time by sending a request to ade@mla.org. Postings are compiled and sent as a digest once a day. All messages will be reviewed before they are posted to the lists.

Instructions for Using the ADE Discussion Lists

1. To post a new query to a list or to respond to a previous posting, send your message to the appropriate e-mail address: ADECH-L@lists.mla.org, ADEDGS-L@lists.mla.org, or MADEG-L@lists.mla.org.

2. Please identify yourself and your institution in the body of any message you send to a list. Anonymous messages will not be posted.

3. You may use the "Reply" function of your mail program, and your message will be sent to all list members. NOTE: Please include only the relevant portions of the original posting to which you are responding in your message.

4. Queries posted to the lists should be as concise as possible. Here are examples:

• Has anyone had experience setting a policy for faculty course buyouts, with either external or internal grant funds?

• I’d like to hear from colleagues about how integral or perfunctory foreign language requirements are to their graduate programs.

5. Postings should be regarded as public documents. Participants are advised not to post confidential or sensitive departmental information to the discussion lists. Please do not reproduce, cite, or circulate the contents of any posted message without the permission of the message author. Phone numbers of ADE-member chairs can be found in the online Members Directory at www.ade.org or in the list of Departmental Administrators in the September (Directory) issue of PMLA. The lists will not carry job or conference announcements.

6. Should you wish to turn off your list membership temporarily (for example, when you go on vacation), address the following command to listserv@lists.mla.org (note that this is a different address from the address of the discussion list itself):

When you want to start receiving mail again, send the command:

SET ADECH-L MAIL
or
SET ADEDGS-L MAIL
or
SET MADEG-L MAIL

Place the commands in the message area of your e-mail message, including no other text.

7. If you wish to search the archive of messages sent to a Discussion List, point your browser to
http://lists.mla.org/archives.

Choose the list you wish to search (e.g., ADECH-L).

You will be prompted for your e-mail address and password. You must enter the e-mail address at which you receive your messages from the Listserv. (Only subscribers to a list can search its archive.) If you do not yet have a password, follow the instructions for creating one. This requires that you submit a new password online and that our Web server send you an e-mail confirmation message that you must acknowledge per the instructions.

After logging in you will see the list's archives organized by week. To search, choose "Search Archives," then enter your search string in the appropriate box and click "Search." For example, a search for the string "Turnitin.com" retrieves 23 messages to ADECH-L that contain that term. You could cast a wider net by searching for "plagiarism" (yields 31 messages) or some other string. By clicking on the item number of each found message, you can read the entire text of the message.

8. For additional information on how you may control and configure your list membership, please refer to the Listserv manual available online at http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/user/user.html.

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