Universities to fear

This way we can all avoid the bad ones!
 * This page is for applicants to warn others of institutions/departments with less than reputable practices.

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General Q: how is it possible that any department can get away with NOT reimbursing a visiting candidate for travel expenses? It's appalling. Surely MLA (and other organizations) could do something to monitor or even "motivate" departments who engage in this kind of conduct (e.g., not allowing them to list job postings on the Job Information List the following year). Grad students especially need to be protected from such things.

Q: Can we rename this page "Universities to loathe"? Or, "Universities to hate"? Either go better with "love" as a polar opposite. (I don't know about anyone else, but when I've a bad experience, I don't fear, I loathe).

Table columns are sortable, just click on the arrow next to the column header.
Formatting for the table


 * - New line


 * School || Department || Comment

Please add responses using an asterisk to denote a bullet point.

Is there a way to fix the line wrapping? The text is stretching out to infinity such that I have to scroll sideways several times to read a sentence.Fixed, please do not add extra paragraph breaks in the entries, this will mess up the table.

May we please have instructions on how to add a school? '''I second this. The table is so complicated, I am afraid, no one is going to post. '''

A: Hit edit and then right click in the table and use "insert row" to add a new blank entry.

[person who requested entry for Univ of Chicago--it has been inserted into the table. Whoever keeps reverting this edit, get a grip! it belongs in the table and not here!]