The MESA Board of Directors has identified the rising reliance on an increasingly contingent academic workforce as one of the greatest current challenges to the academic profession. It therefore views the efforts of other academic associations with great sympathy. Taking special note of the Modern Language Association's "Action for Allies," [http://actionforallies.commons.mla.org/] the Board supports that effort “to ensure that every campus provides appropriate working conditions for non-tenure-track faculty members.”