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Post by UNM on Apr 3, 2015 20:14:50 GMT -5
The University of New Mexico (Albuquerque) should be hiring a sociologist of race/ethnicity, assistant prof level.
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Post by anonprof on Apr 4, 2015 18:04:44 GMT -5
Washington University in St. Louis will be hiring 2-3 faculty members for the next five years while it fills out it's newly re-formed sociology department. They're looking for "up and comers" who can draw more senior scholars down the road. It is my understanding that all sociological disciplines will be sought, including criminolgy. In short: keep your eye on WashU. It is a stunningly beautiful campus in the heart of St. Louis County, and you really can't match the resources except perhaps at Harvard, Yale, etc. chronicle.com/article/In-Troubled-St-Louis-Area/149505sociology.wustl.edu/newsWhat is the deal with this department (other than what you posted here/is on their website). Is the grad program they are planning to establish a phd program? Do they have any idea of what specific areas they are planning to specialize in? Or are they just seeing what they get and making those decisions later? (or going for the "every man is an island" model of a grad program?). Is everyone coming in as a full prof, or would, say, theoretically, a very advanced assistant prof on the brink of going up for tenure be able to come in as an associate prof? I am totally intrigued by this position in a way I totally wasn't last year when they were just hiring the first cohort of new profs...
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Post by unc-asheville? on Apr 7, 2015 11:27:05 GMT -5
UNC-Asheville just posted a one-year lecturer position with expertise in race/ethnicity and inequalities: chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000879108-01. Anyone know if it could evolve into a tenure-track position?
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Post by No on Apr 7, 2015 18:52:44 GMT -5
UNC-Asheville just posted a one-year lecturer position with expertise in race/ethnicity and inequalities: chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000879108-01. Anyone know if it could evolve into a tenure-track position? Never, ever, ever assume any non-TT job will turn into a tenure-line one. Never. Ever. Ever.
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Post by Well.... on Apr 7, 2015 19:20:08 GMT -5
UNC-Asheville just posted a one-year lecturer position with expertise in race/ethnicity and inequalities: chroniclevitae.com/jobs/0000879108-01. Anyone know if it could evolve into a tenure-track position? Never, ever, ever assume any non-TT job will turn into a tenure-line one. Never. Ever. Ever. I agree that you are better off not assuming any such thing, ever. But in my limited experience, there may also be a difference between big or prestigious schools and more obscure/smaller/non-elite institutions. I was told when working as a VAP (looking for a different job for the following year) at one of the latter ones that the schools has routinely used the VAP status in the past to "test drive" the person to see if they would be a TT-material and was told who among my colleagues acquired their position that way (since I was being invited to pursue the same path). So, yes, do not ever assume it because there is no way of knowing when you first start but, as we all know after all, it is not unheard of either.
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Post by No on Apr 7, 2015 19:41:16 GMT -5
While I agree with you that there are isolated incidents of using a VAP as a test-drive, I strongly believe that it's never worth getting your hopes up. We're moving more and more to "permanent" adjunct positions, especially at more obscure/smaller/non-elite institutions. If you can get someone to work for you and cover your classes without the pay, job security, and (sometimes) fringe benefits of being a tenure-line faculty member, why switch? Once a department sees you as an adjunct, they generally keep seeing you as an adjunct. It's the secondary labor market of academia.
The allegations of "inside" hires get all the press, and it's possible to point to the handful of adjuncts who wind up getting hired into TT positions every year. But that is a few drops in an entire lake of adjuncts. Just because it's possible to win the lottery does not mean you should buy tickets instead of investing in the stock market.
I don't want to derail this thread too much, but the odds are so stacked against this being a "test-drive" job that if an insider from UNC-Asheville came on here and said it was one, I still wouldn't believe it.
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Post by leave on Apr 7, 2015 20:58:38 GMT -5
It seems most likely a leave replacement.
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Post by yes but on Apr 7, 2015 21:02:34 GMT -5
We're in agreement: Note that my first sentence was that you should, indeed, never assume this course of events. But you can't disagree with my experience, can you? In any case, the point of my post was to simply to say: It does happen sometimes (as I saw personally) and the steadfast insistence on this board that it (almost) never happens is a bit misleading. And there are certain reasons why, for instance, a small non-elite LAC would do this and why it is NOT the case that once you work for them as a VAP (or adjunct), they would want to keep you an adjunct. Namely that there is a HUGE, and I mean HUGE, amount of "service" and student advising and care etc. that is part of the *core* of the job. Unless there is going to be a complete revolution and adjuncts will become compelled to carry out these tasks as well, as of now, adjuncts simply don't do any of these things and tiny sociology/soc sciences departments in LACs need not just classes covered but also the work horses covering all these things. Plus, again, in a tiny place, the intense need for "fit" (simply in the sense of: are we going to be able to get along with this person AND is this person not going to hate it here -- think submarine-like situation, to exaggerate a bit), in that context "test-driving" is a pretty rational strategy.
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Post by Archivist on Apr 8, 2015 8:13:08 GMT -5
If anyone is interested in continuing this discussion about VAP lines -> TT lines, please start a new thread in the "General > Misc. Job Market Discussions" subforum. I'm willing to move some of the posts from here if desired.
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Post by stetson on Apr 13, 2015 9:23:14 GMT -5
Stetson cancelled its search this year and will likely try again next year.
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Post by friends on Apr 17, 2015 12:18:13 GMT -5
Earlham College in Indiana is an incredible small liberal arts college. They will be looking for a sociologist this year...or next.
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Post by PDX on Apr 28, 2015 11:15:05 GMT -5
Portland state will be conducting a search for an Urban sociologist and, pending funding approval, a second position in another subfield as well.
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Post by Beware on May 2, 2015 11:36:53 GMT -5
Earlham College in Indiana is an incredible small liberal arts college. They will be looking for a sociologist this year...or next. I know someone who interviewed there a couple of years ago. They're apparently having major enrollment problems. And, at a non-elite liberal arts college that means major financial problems.
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Post by ditto on May 2, 2015 14:19:56 GMT -5
Earlham College in Indiana is an incredible small liberal arts college. They will be looking for a sociologist this year...or next. I know someone who interviewed there a couple of years ago. They're apparently having major enrollment problems. And, at a non-elite liberal arts college that means major financial problems. I also heard that they have big enrollment problems. And that they're consensus style of running the school causes some snags in trying to address them.
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Post by endowment on May 2, 2015 17:01:15 GMT -5
Earlham has a $405 million endowment so they should be able to handle enrollment crises better than tuition-driven colleges.
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