By: GhostProf
But sometimes they are. That could well be what’s at work here. Also, it need not be a function of the tenure clock so much as when someone might have a portfolio substantial enough to go up for...
View ArticleBy: Dhananjay
It seems to me that the search committee is trying to do something reasonable in an unreasonable way. UK entry-level jobs (JRFs, non-permanent lectureships, and the like) often restrict applications to...
View ArticleBy: Jo VanEvery
The discussion raises some interesting points GhostProf’s experience suggests that there is pressure on departments not to hire the best candidates but rather to hire good candidates who will take the...
View ArticleBy: PhDs before 2010 need not apply « Feminist Philosophers
[...] such an ad. In the meantime, though, I smile at the close of the search committee chair’s reply to Chad Black’s query, “We hope you will distribute this position description to any qualified...
View ArticleBy: Historiann
I teach at Colorado State University in the History department and served on a search committee last year. We did not pre-limit our application pool in History last year (nor will we this year for our...
View ArticleBy: Historiann
(Sorry–I can’t see what I’m typing beyond the little box here, so I’ll continue). I think the English Department’s decision is silly, but candidates who come here for interviews are getting a clear...
View ArticleBy: Ph.D.s from the previous decade need not apply? We ain’t got the...
[...] some questions among job seekers and other academics. Sisyphus has a post about this, and so does Parezco y Digo, who industriously wrote to the Chair of the English Department to ask why...
View ArticleBy: Chris
1. This is incredibly depressing. In a way I hope the restriction is due to an internal candidate, rather than reflective of a policy that is ordinarily deemed reasonable by the institution. 2. In...
View ArticleBy: Todd
If the concern is that the department will enter into a negotiation with someone who has unrealistic and unmeetable expectations for salary, then there’s certainly an easier way to do this. In...
View ArticleBy: Todd
As an aside, I’ll give CSU one small bit of credit–they’re at least making public a criterion they’ll be using. Too many searches have similar criteria, but committees don’t make them explicit, thus...
View ArticleBy: Dove
This is unusual language and CSU could easily get sued for discrimination. Recent Phds may take time off for a variety of reasons (ie. health, family leave, military or religious service, let alone the...
View ArticleBy: Todd
I doubt there’s grounds for a lawsuit (distinguishing here between law and justice). The requirement does not inherently discriminate on age per se–a 52-year-old who got her degree in 2011 would be...
View ArticleBy: “We were told to ride out the storm, but it seems we were lied to[.]” -...
[...] short step above an adjunct and I can assure you that my salary expectations are entry-level. In a response Chad Black’s email, Reid made clear the reasoning behind that disconnect: By specifying...
View ArticleBy: Larry Cebula
Thanks for blogging this, Chad, and for provoking a reply from CSU, no matter how lame. The ad reeks of gender and class as well as age discrimination, since female and non-wealthy graduate students...
View ArticleBy: EROSE
Failed search is right – I hope that every person on the English job market submits an application. They can all explain how they would benefit from an “entry-level with an entry-level salary and...
View ArticleBy: Colorado State criticized for job posting favoring recent Ph.D.s | Inside...
[...] frustrating is the reality that is being discussed by faculty on a blog by Chad Black. Comments, while thoughtful and likely spot-on, explore the possibility that [...]
View ArticleBy: Links 9/12/12 | Mike the Mad Biologist
[...] Years Federal air marshal gets probation for punching Occupy Boston organizer, stealing her phone OLD PHDS NEED NOT APPLY (by ‘old’, we mean ~32 years of age) “It Smelled Something Like Pizza”:...
View ArticleBy: an update on the CSU ad « parezco y digo
[...] I figured this update deserved a new post, rather than adding to the original. [...]
View ArticleBy: Some Brief Thoughts on the Now-Famous “No Olds” Ad at CSU « Gerry Canavan
[...] Chad Black and Scott Eric Kaufman (1, 2) have done a great job publicizing the now-famous “No Olds” ad at CSU English, to the point where the ad has now been revised and the MLA Executive Council...
View ArticleBy: The new must-have accessory for the Ph.D. who has been on the job market...
[...] at Colorado State University in pre-1900 American Literature, you have likely seen the serious discussions of it, and how ill it bodes for academic job-seekers whose Ph.D.s are not the newest [...]
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