I received a letter from Staten Island asking for letters of recommendation and a writing sample, but it was my impression that everyone who applied received the same letter.
Apologies for posting in the wrong category but this seems to be the only active thread. Hopefully this will be of interest...
The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Center for Community Capital invites applications for a one-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship, with the option to renew for a second year. Our multi-disciplinary Center welcomes two types of candidates. Policy-oriented candidates should show promise of significant scholarship in the areas of real estate finance, home mortgage performance, housing policy, community development, and/or wealth accumulation in underserved neighborhoods. Methodologically-oriented candidates should demonstrate sophistication in the application of selection models, analysis of panel and categorical data, assessment of neighborhood effects, and/or use of multiple imputation and survey weights. The Post-Doctoral Fellow will work collaboratively with Center researchers, participate in related workshops and conferences, and produce papers for publication. Very competitive salary and benefits provided.
Full details and application instructions can be found here:
Again, since this is the only active thread at the moment, I thought I'd post here. I'm familiar with this institution and it's a class act. Good people, friendly atmosphere, and Green Bay isn't a bad city in which to live:
Teaching Fellowship, Sociology
Apply for this Position through My HigherEdJobs Save to your Organizer Email to a Friend Print-friendly version Institution: St. Norbert College Location: De Pere, WI Category: Faculty - Liberal Arts - Sociology Posted: 03/16/2009 Application Due: Open Until Filled Type: Full Time St. Norbert College Teaching Fellowship
St. Norbert College. Fall, 2009. Department of Sociology seeks applications by an ABD (or new Ph.D) for a St. Norbert College Teaching Fellowship. This position, which features a reduced teaching load and requires neither committee work nor advising, is designed to allow a Sociology ABD or recent Ph.D. ample time for research while at the same time gaining well-mentored teaching experience. This is a one-year position with competitive salary, full benefits, and possible summer teaching opportunity. It rises due to the reassignment of a senior member of the Department of Sociology to the position of Associate Dean.
The Teaching Fellow will be responsible for two classes per semester, both of which will be Introduction to Statistics in the Fall and one of which will be Introduction to Statistics in the Spring. The last will be negotiated. Commitment to excellence in teaching undergraduates in a congenial sociology-anthropology department with significant numbers of majors is essential.
SNC is a thriving Catholic, liberal arts college, embracing the Norbertine vision of community. We welcome candidates from all faith traditions who can contribute to the College's mission. Please visit the website at www.snc.edu/mission. The College features General Education, Honors, and Faculty Development Programs, and extensive overseas study opportunities. SNC is selective in admission with a stable enrollment of over 2000 students. Please send curriculum vitae/resume, cover letter, three recommendation letters (or names of three references with contact information and email addresses) to Dr. James Benton, Associate Dean, Social Sciences Division, St. Norbert College, 100 Grant Street, DePere, WI 54115. Applications by email attachments are encouraged: send to James.Benton@snc.edu, cc. Cindy.Iwen@snc.edu. Review of applications to begin by April 7. Position open until filled. Application Information Apply for this Position through My HigherEdJobs Postal Address: Dr. James Benton Social Sciences Division St. Norbert College 100 Grant Street De Pere, WI 54115 Email Address: james.benton@snc.edu
If you are still looking for a tenure-track position in demography, there is a new opening at CCPR-UCLA. Look at CCPR-announcement-employment opportunities-faculty.
well...this does not concern a job, but I have a Nixonesque "shit list" of people I plan on getting revenge on for screwing up my life and my family's situation by not giving me a job. They include members of search committees and people in my department who have wronged me. I've already gotten professional revenge on one person (reviewer comments on an R&R at one of the big three have mysteriously vanished from their dept mailbox). See what happens when you fuck with someone.
1:48: I agree with 4:00. Moreover, you should note that choosing "anonymous" doesn't completely mask your identity. Somewhere on some server in Blogger.com HQ, your IP and MAC addresses have been stored. Given a little effort, an interested party could likely figure out who you are. You might just want to slip that envelope back in the mail slot where you found it.
Getting angry with SC members for not hiring you? Seriously? A couple hundred people apply for a single job, and you know what? They're all qualified. Practically all of them. So, this notion that we're entitled to jobs because we have an article or two, or some teaching experience, is bogus.
Put yourself in the SC position. You pick one person, and you piss off 200 people. If you change your mind and pick someone else, that still leaves a couple hundred angry people. There's no way to hire everyone that is qualified. Someday that is going to be you or I making those hard decisions and we won't want people taking revenge on us for not hiring them, wrecking their lives, etc. The problem isn't SC members (unless they're rude or unresponsive); it's a structural problem-- too many PhD's, too few jobs. That's not their fault.
Let's stop blaming each other and stop blaming SC members who must choose between hundreds of qualified people. Who should we take our frustration out on? I don't know-- that's a good question.
Also, swiping reviewer comments isn't even good revenge. After a while the author thinks "hmm, I never received comments," e-mails the editor and the editor re-sends them. Congrats, you've wasted 6 minutes of their time.
11:33, does anyone REALLY need to be blamed? Despite a great deal of sociological scholarship, we actually DO have free choice. You make choices and you deal with the consequences. You can whine and lash out or you can work with the cards you are dealt. I don't understand this sense of entitlement. Life is an adventure, see where it takes you next!
I got a job this year so I am happy I don't have to have to put up with you "free choice" people. Seriously, go shove it. Or go back to having your parents pay your bills or whatever made you believe that tripe in the first place.
"free choice"...i guess when you are white and rich, you have all the free choices you want and mommy and daddy their or rich partners to help pay your shit, try having no money and a family (plus plenty of good pubs) and 6 yrs of advisors saying, "oh you'll have no problem getting a job" blah blah blah
i have a colleague who is in administration (a provost) and certain schools where renewal for PTR goes through the dean, well, even if you HAVE a job now, they might not be renewing non-tenured TT faculty, so it looks like some of the arrogance could come back and bite some people
I'm the one who made the free choice comment. I have a job, a very good job. Outside of sociology, but tenure-track. The insulting comments are sad, but make the pathetic quality of academics in sociology all the more understandable. Good luck to all.
yeah, sociology has a lot of bullshitters, but if you are in a business school, you get six figured bullshitters and a bunch of half-assed consultants all running around trying to be the next endowed chair of fortune 500 company X
yea, actually there are a lot of us who have families, did well in graduate school, and took on a lot of debt to pay for it. it is not an especially unique situation.
like many of you, i also did not get a TT soc. job this year. so i opted for a research job in sociology and love it. it seems to pay better than sitting around bitching.
1. Wait, what? Why would we revolt? And who would we revolt against? Are we going to revolt against declining state budgets and foundations? If not, then what's the point.
2. You guys make my head hurt (from considering that, if we're revolting against the rulers of sociology, what would possibly be the point?).
3. Yeah, you sure are revolting. (this is supposed to be a joke. Like "ha-ha," funny.)
perhaps the goal is to forcibly redistribute jobs and professional prestige? ha, you damn employed sociologist, i have taken five of your prestige!! take that!!!
there is nothing prestigious about sociology...why would you get into to sociology to pursue prestige? that makes no sense, most people laugh at the discipline
i am secure enough in being a sociologist, but no one goes around bragging about how profound sociology is, most people see it as psychology, social work, or common-sense
I just received an affirmative action card and a letter from Queens College, CUNY saying that the search has begun. I assumed they already hired. Does anyone know where they are in the process? Did they get turned down on an offer and go back to the pool?
I just heard informally from a school about 2 months after I had interviewed. Things are still somewhat up in the air for them, but looking up. I had written them off as impolite due to lack of contact. Now I know that they had some budget/approval circumstances that held them up.
Apologies for cross posting but this seems to be the main place people are looking at. Hope this is of interest to some of you...
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bowdoin College seeks applicants for a one-year, full-time position in Sociology at the Assistant Professor or Instructor level for the 2009-2010 academic year with the possibility of a second year. Ph.D. preferred, ABD considered. Areas of specialization open. Teaching load is two courses per semester and will include Sociology 101. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong commitment to teaching and a promise of successful scholarly engagement.
Bowdoin College is accepting electronic applications. To apply please visit https://careers.bowdoin.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=50937 and submit cover letter, curriculum vitae, and evidence of excellence in both teaching and research. Three letters of reference should be addressed to Search Committee Chair and sent via e-mail to soc_anth_refs@bowdoin.edu
Review of applications will begin April 24, 2009 and will continue until the position is filled.
Bowdoin is a highly selective liberal arts college on the Maine coast with a diverse student body made up of 25% students of color, 4% International students and approximately 15% first generation college students. Bowdoin College is committed to equality and diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage inquiries from candidates who will enrich and contribute to the cultural, socio-economic, and ethnic diversity of our college. Bowdoin College does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, or disability status in employment, or in our education programs. For further information about the college and the department, see our website at http://www.bowdoin.edu.
anyone know what's going on at UNC-Wilmington? More than a month ago they brought 3 folks to interview. Then last week I was contacted seeing if I was still on the market. What's going on over there?
University of Cincinnati invites applications for the position of Visiting Assistant Professor or Visiting Instructor for the 2009 – 2010 academic year, to begin September 1, 2009. A Ph.D. in Sociology is preferred, while an ABD in Sociology will be considered. Strong preference will be given to candidates who can teach social psychology and large sections of Introduction to Sociology. Preference will also be given to candidates whose teaching and research specialties complement the department’s emphasis on work, family, gender, health, social inequality, and urban issues. Teaching load is 3-3-3 on a quarter system. Applicants should have a record of high quality teaching. The department is a Ph.D. granting department and houses the Kunz Center for Research on Work, Family, and Gender. Applicants must apply on line at www.jobsatuc.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=69777 . You can also go to www.jobsatuc.com and search for position 29UC3865 to apply. Your vita, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and the names of three references should be mailed to: Recruitment Committee, Department of Sociology, PO BOX 210378, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0378. The University of Cincinnati is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women, people of color, the disabled and veterans are encouraged to apply. The review of applications will begin May 15, 2009.
I was contacted two weeks back asking if I was still on the market. This past week, when I was due to discuss a campus visit (the Chair said one person had already been invited) the Chair called to say that all of their unspent money for this fiscal year had been, only days prior, recalled by the Governor of the state--which means the invitation could not be extended to me. One person had already been invited and that still stands, but the Chair explained that she was unsure if the money would be there for the position now or to begin the search again in July (new fiscal year).
Does anyone know where Sam Houston State University is at with their search? Are they still bringing people in for interviews? Have they made an offer?
In their quest to toe the party line ("the market is good for sociology PhDs" being that "line), the esteemed sociologists who authored this piece forgot to adjust for the people who earned their doctorate in a different year than the positions were advertised and under-estimated the portion of job hunters applying for assistant professor jobs (they note that a high % of assistant searche may not be filled--doesn't this indicate that there are "carry-overs" from the past year's labor market??? No wonder people in other disciplines laugh at sociology, the top people in the discipline have very little common-sense, intuition, or sophistication when dealing with empirical data...
first of all, the people at ASA whose job it is to track statistics on the state of the field can hardly be called the "top people in the discipline."
Second of all, the study you linked to shows a 22.8% decline in number of jobs and says nothing at all about number of applicants. I think in your quest to write a snarky remark, you've confused this with the previous study that came out a year or two ago, when the market was much better.
RE: April 14 Montgomery College Rockville query. I was contacted in early April for an in-person interview. It seems like they had several interview opportunities. Hopefully you were contacted as well. Seems like a good position.
I sort of had the same question earlier on, but I suppose it depends on what you mean by "the job market."
There hasn't been much in the way of new postings since, what, February? This is especially the case for 4-year institution TT positions.
In terms of campus invites and job offers, perhaps this is business as usual but I suspect more than usual are being trailed out to the bitter end because schools are struggling with budgets. Who knows how many of them will even end with a hire?
I already know of at least one job posting for the 09-10 job market cycle, so I do sort of wonder how much longer it can be stretched out. When does the ASA Employment Service open up?
So, given the dire job market, and the possibility of next year being worse, should one take a job he/she really doesn't want, or just continue researching and hold out till next year?
And I have a hunch that it's not going to get better folks... This year, the dire economic condition hit everyone by surprise. The budgets for next year have now been written with it in mind, and with it not improving. The likelihood of a bad year next year is high. Take a job if you've got one.
RE: April 28th Montgomery College/Rockville. Thanks for posting! I was invited to an interview, but it was extended more like mid-April. do you know for sure that there is only one position for which they are hiring?
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I received a letter from Staten Island asking for letters of recommendation and a writing sample, but it was my impression that everyone who applied received the same letter.
Apologies for posting in the wrong category but this seems to be the only active thread. Hopefully this will be of interest...
The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Center for Community Capital invites applications for a one-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship, with the option to renew for a second year. Our multi-disciplinary Center welcomes two types of candidates. Policy-oriented candidates should show promise of significant scholarship in the areas of real estate finance, home mortgage performance, housing policy, community development, and/or wealth accumulation in underserved neighborhoods. Methodologically-oriented candidates should demonstrate sophistication in the application of selection models, analysis of panel and categorical data, assessment of neighborhood effects, and/or use of multiple imputation and survey weights. The Post-Doctoral Fellow will work collaboratively with Center researchers, participate in related workshops and conferences, and produce papers for publication. Very competitive salary and benefits provided.
Full details and application instructions can be found here:
http://cfx3.research.unc.edu/postdoc_job/position_details.cfm?job_id=150
Any news on McGill's soc position?
Again, since this is the only active thread at the moment, I thought I'd post here. I'm familiar with this institution and it's a class act. Good people, friendly atmosphere, and Green Bay isn't a bad city in which to live:
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St. Norbert College. Fall, 2009. Department of Sociology seeks applications by an ABD (or new Ph.D) for a St. Norbert College Teaching Fellowship. This position, which features a reduced teaching load and requires neither committee work nor advising, is designed to allow a Sociology ABD or recent Ph.D. ample time for research while at the same time gaining well-mentored teaching experience. This is a one-year position with competitive salary, full benefits, and possible summer teaching opportunity. It rises due to the reassignment of a senior member of the Department of Sociology to the position of Associate Dean.
The Teaching Fellow will be responsible for two classes per semester, both of which will be Introduction to Statistics in the Fall and one of which will be Introduction to Statistics in the Spring. The last will be negotiated. Commitment to excellence in teaching undergraduates in a congenial sociology-anthropology department with significant numbers of majors is essential.
SNC is a thriving Catholic, liberal arts college, embracing the Norbertine vision of community. We welcome candidates from all faith traditions who can contribute to the College's mission. Please visit the website at www.snc.edu/mission. The College features General Education, Honors, and Faculty Development Programs, and extensive overseas study opportunities. SNC is selective in admission with a stable enrollment of over 2000 students. Please send curriculum vitae/resume, cover letter, three recommendation letters (or names of three references with contact information and email addresses) to Dr. James Benton, Associate Dean, Social Sciences Division, St. Norbert College, 100 Grant Street, DePere, WI 54115. Applications by email attachments are encouraged: send to James.Benton@snc.edu, cc. Cindy.Iwen@snc.edu. Review of applications to begin by April 7. Position open until filled.
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Does anyone know if UT-Pan American hired?
Hi,
If you are still looking for a tenure-track position in demography, there is a new opening at CCPR-UCLA. Look at CCPR-announcement-employment opportunities-faculty.
UT-Pan American sent emails to those on the short list. They also sent letters stating that the university closed the position.
Please someone, post a comment before I have heart failure.
well...this does not concern a job, but I have a Nixonesque "shit list" of people I plan on getting revenge on for screwing up my life and my family's situation by not giving me a job. They include members of search committees and people in my department who have wronged me. I've already gotten professional revenge on one person (reviewer comments on an R&R at one of the big three have mysteriously vanished from their dept mailbox). See what happens when you fuck with someone.
The wiki says University of Illinois at Springfield has scheduled on-campus interviews. Can anyone verify this?
1:48, that is sad and pathetic.
3:21 I also would like to know. All I can say is that I had a phone interview and haven't heard anything since.
1:48: I agree with 4:00. Moreover, you should note that choosing "anonymous" doesn't completely mask your identity. Somewhere on some server in Blogger.com HQ, your IP and MAC addresses have been stored. Given a little effort, an interested party could likely figure out who you are. You might just want to slip that envelope back in the mail slot where you found it.
Re: UIS
This fits with the timeline I was given.
Getting angry with SC members for not hiring you? Seriously? A couple hundred people apply for a single job, and you know what? They're all qualified. Practically all of them. So, this notion that we're entitled to jobs because we have an article or two, or some teaching experience, is bogus.
Put yourself in the SC position. You pick one person, and you piss off 200 people. If you change your mind and pick someone else, that still leaves a couple hundred angry people. There's no way to hire everyone that is qualified. Someday that is going to be you or I making those hard decisions and we won't want people taking revenge on us for not hiring them, wrecking their lives, etc. The problem isn't SC members (unless they're rude or unresponsive); it's a structural problem-- too many PhD's, too few jobs. That's not their fault.
Let's stop blaming each other and stop blaming SC members who must choose between hundreds of qualified people. Who should we take our frustration out on? I don't know-- that's a good question.
Also, swiping reviewer comments isn't even good revenge. After a while the author thinks "hmm, I never received comments," e-mails the editor and the editor re-sends them. Congrats, you've wasted 6 minutes of their time.
11:33, does anyone REALLY need to be blamed? Despite a great deal of sociological scholarship, we actually DO have free choice. You make choices and you deal with the consequences. You can whine and lash out or you can work with the cards you are dealt. I don't understand this sense of entitlement. Life is an adventure, see where it takes you next!
guess someone's getting burned, LOL! guess the emperor now has their pants around their ankles, ha hatr sorry LOL!
I got a job this year so I am happy I don't have to have to put up with you "free choice" people. Seriously, go shove it. Or go back to having your parents pay your bills or whatever made you believe that tripe in the first place.
"free choice"...i guess when you are white and rich, you have all the free choices you want and mommy and daddy their or rich partners to help pay your shit, try having no money and a family (plus plenty of good pubs) and 6 yrs of advisors saying, "oh you'll have no problem getting a job" blah blah blah
i have a colleague who is in administration (a provost) and certain schools where renewal for PTR goes through the dean, well, even if you HAVE a job now, they might not be renewing non-tenured TT faculty, so it looks like some of the arrogance could come back and bite some people
I'm the one who made the free choice comment. I have a job, a very good job. Outside of sociology, but tenure-track. The insulting comments are sad, but make the pathetic quality of academics in sociology all the more understandable. Good luck to all.
yeah, sociology has a lot of bullshitters, but if you are in a business school, you get six figured bullshitters and a bunch of half-assed consultants all running around trying to be the next endowed chair of fortune 500 company X
yea, actually there are a lot of us who have families, did well in graduate school, and took on a lot of debt to pay for it. it is not an especially unique situation.
like many of you, i also did not get a TT soc. job this year. so i opted for a research job in sociology and love it. it seems to pay better than sitting around bitching.
REVOLT OF THE UNEMPLOYED SOCIOLOGY PHDs at the 2009 ASAs!
(get involved)
how many?
3 slightly separate reactions to that:
1. Wait, what? Why would we revolt? And who would we revolt against? Are we going to revolt against declining state budgets and foundations? If not, then what's the point.
2. You guys make my head hurt (from considering that, if we're revolting against the rulers of sociology, what would possibly be the point?).
3. Yeah, you sure are revolting. (this is supposed to be a joke. Like "ha-ha," funny.)
what schools currently have outstanding offers?
perhaps the goal is to forcibly redistribute jobs and professional prestige? ha, you damn employed sociologist, i have taken five of your prestige!! take that!!!
there is nothing prestigious about sociology...why would you get into to sociology to pursue prestige? that makes no sense, most people laugh at the discipline
i am secure enough in being a sociologist, but no one goes around bragging about how profound sociology is, most people see it as psychology, social work, or common-sense
Sociology as a discipline may not have much prestige compared to other disciplines, but there is definitely a hierarchy of prestige within sociology.
Now, can the ranting and banter go off to a more relevant thread (like the ones for ranting or misc comments)?
which schools have outstanding offers?
i've become a much better (though unemployed) sociologist since I stopped reading ASR
Does anyone know what happened with the post-doc fellowship at Rutgers for The Center for Race and Ethnicity and Institute for Research on Women?
the one with deborah gray white?
what schools have outstanding offers? any cuny schools?
yes the one with deborah gray white
Any word on the status of Franklin & Marshall's search?
I just received an affirmative action card and a letter from Queens College, CUNY saying that the search has begun. I assumed they already hired. Does anyone know where they are in the process? Did they get turned down on an offer and go back to the pool?
Re: F&M - I interviewed there in early Feb and never heard back, so I've assumed they made an offer to someone else.
I just heard informally from a school about 2 months after I had interviewed. Things are still somewhat up in the air for them, but looking up. I had written them off as impolite due to lack of contact. Now I know that they had some budget/approval circumstances that held them up.
But wouldn't it have been more polite of them to informally keep you updated, instead of guessing for the last 2 months?
Re:Queens-CUNY
I heard that they already hired one person.But I don't know how many they were planing to hire. Someone told me they hired 2-3 persons last year.
Responding to the 3/19 question about UI Springfield, yes, they've begun campus interviews. 4 scheduled in all.
Apologies for cross posting but this seems to be the main place people are looking at. Hope this is of interest to some of you...
The Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Bowdoin College seeks applicants for a one-year, full-time position in Sociology at the Assistant Professor or Instructor level for the 2009-2010 academic year with the possibility of a second year. Ph.D. preferred, ABD considered. Areas of specialization open. Teaching load is two courses per semester and will include Sociology 101. The successful candidate will demonstrate a strong commitment to teaching and a promise of successful scholarly engagement.
Bowdoin College is accepting electronic applications. To apply please visit https://careers.bowdoin.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=50937 and submit cover letter, curriculum vitae, and evidence of excellence in both teaching and research. Three letters of reference should be addressed to Search Committee Chair and sent via e-mail to soc_anth_refs@bowdoin.edu
Review of applications will begin April 24, 2009 and will continue until the position is filled.
Bowdoin is a highly selective liberal arts college on the Maine coast with a diverse student body made up of 25% students of color, 4% International students and approximately 15% first generation college students. Bowdoin College is committed to equality and diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage inquiries from candidates who will enrich and contribute to the cultural, socio-economic, and ethnic diversity of our college. Bowdoin College does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, national origin, or disability status in employment, or in our education programs. For further information about the college and the department, see our website at http://www.bowdoin.edu.
In response to a question asked a while ago: I was offered and accepted the position at Western Illinois University.
Anyone apply to/hear anything about the Montgomery College-Rockville job? Thanks.
anyone know what's going on at UNC-Wilmington? More than a month ago they brought 3 folks to interview. Then last week I was contacted seeing if I was still on the market. What's going on over there?
U Cincinnati is doing a visiting professor search for next fall.
UNCW had at least one (maybe two) cancelled interviews. Presumably folks who got other offers..?
Here's the Cincinnati VAP post:
University of Cincinnati invites applications for the position of Visiting Assistant Professor or Visiting Instructor for the 2009 – 2010 academic year, to begin September 1, 2009. A Ph.D. in Sociology is preferred, while an ABD in Sociology will be considered. Strong preference will be given to candidates who can teach social psychology and large sections of Introduction to Sociology. Preference will also be given to candidates whose teaching and research specialties complement the department’s emphasis on work, family, gender, health, social inequality, and urban issues. Teaching load is 3-3-3 on a quarter system. Applicants should have a record of high quality teaching. The department is a Ph.D. granting department and houses the Kunz Center for Research on Work, Family, and Gender. Applicants must apply on line at www.jobsatuc.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=69777 . You can also go to www.jobsatuc.com and search for position 29UC3865 to apply. Your vita, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and the names of three references should be mailed to: Recruitment Committee, Department of Sociology, PO BOX 210378, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0378. The University of Cincinnati is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women, people of color, the disabled and veterans are encouraged to apply. The review of applications will begin May 15, 2009.
Does anyone have any info about what is happening with the UNC Wilmington search?
Re: UNC-Wilmington
I was contacted two weeks back asking if I was still on the market. This past week, when I was due to discuss a campus visit (the Chair said one person had already been invited) the Chair called to say that all of their unspent money for this fiscal year had been, only days prior, recalled by the Governor of the state--which means the invitation could not be extended to me. One person had already been invited and that still stands, but the Chair explained that she was unsure if the money would be there for the position now or to begin the search again in July (new fiscal year).
I heard they are in fact not hiring.
Does anyone have info on the status of the search at Vanderbilt's Curb Center?
re: Vanderbilt:
they asked for more information from a few candidates last week
Look for Rice U to post a VAP position for this fall in the coming days on the Job Bank. I'll post it here when I see it.
Anyone know what the status is at Appalachian State?
Does anyone know where Sam Houston State University is at with their search? Are they still bringing people in for interviews? Have they made an offer?
In their quest to toe the party line ("the market is good for sociology PhDs" being that "line), the esteemed sociologists who authored this piece forgot to adjust for the people who earned their doctorate in a different year than the positions were advertised and under-estimated the portion of job hunters applying for assistant professor jobs (they note that a high % of assistant searche may not be filled--doesn't this indicate that there are "carry-overs" from the past year's labor market??? No wonder people in other disciplines laugh at sociology, the top people in the discipline have very little common-sense, intuition, or sophistication when dealing with empirical data...
http://www.asanet.org/galleries/default-file/PhDs%20Employment%20Brief%20(FINAL).pdf
first of all, the people at ASA whose job it is to track statistics on the state of the field can hardly be called the "top people in the discipline."
Second of all, the study you linked to shows a 22.8% decline in number of jobs and says nothing at all about number of applicants. I think in your quest to write a snarky remark, you've confused this with the previous study that came out a year or two ago, when the market was much better.
imagine how well-done the report would be if they out-sourced it to an econ grad student
Does anyone know if Mount Royal College ever scheduled interviews and/or made a hire?
Obama's education funding will be secure for "real" scientists but not "social" scientists
http://www.higheredjobs.com/HigherEdCareers/interviews.cfm?ID=96
Does anyone know if they already scheduled interviews for the McGill position?
RE: April 14 Montgomery College Rockville query. I was contacted in early April for an in-person interview. It seems like they had several interview opportunities. Hopefully you were contacted as well. Seems like a good position.
McGill has interviewed four candidates in the past week.
Does anyone know anything about the Armstrong Atlantic State University search?
Anything about Wisconsin-Parkside?
Anything about the University of Utah (comparative soc)?
does the job market usually last this long into the spring?
I sort of had the same question earlier on, but I suppose it depends on what you mean by "the job market."
There hasn't been much in the way of new postings since, what, February? This is especially the case for 4-year institution TT positions.
In terms of campus invites and job offers, perhaps this is business as usual but I suspect more than usual are being trailed out to the bitter end because schools are struggling with budgets. Who knows how many of them will even end with a hire?
I already know of at least one job posting for the 09-10 job market cycle, so I do sort of wonder how much longer it can be stretched out. When does the ASA Employment Service open up?
So, given the dire job market, and the possibility of next year being worse, should one take a job he/she really doesn't want, or just continue researching and hold out till next year?
Please please please someone post an update on McGill!! Have they made an offer yet?
Rice VAP ad now posted in the "new positions" thread.
McGill has decided not to hire anyone this year. Sounds like they didn't like any of their candidates that much.
a traumatic year to be a sociologist....
And I have a hunch that it's not going to get better folks... This year, the dire economic condition hit everyone by surprise. The budgets for next year have now been written with it in mind, and with it not improving. The likelihood of a bad year next year is high. Take a job if you've got one.
my R1 in new england does not even have a final budget for 2009-2010
RE: April 28th Montgomery College/Rockville. Thanks for posting! I was invited to an interview, but it was extended more like mid-April. do you know for sure that there is only one position for which they are hiring?
does anyone know about the positions in sociology at Harvard? (college fellow or the one year lecturer)
Any word on the U of Alabama, Huntsville job?
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