Post by guest321 on Oct 27, 2011 9:51:58 GMT -5
I am very appreciative when I receive a verdict on my application one way or the other from search committees, and I am most impressed when such e-mails are encouraging. I know that departments are receiving large numbers of applications for few positions, but there is still something to be said for communicating with applicants and acknowledging the time and interest put into department searches. This reflects very well on a department, and administrators at these places should be aware of how much a credit to their institutions these search committees (and especially their chairs) are.
Conversely, I am quite underwhelmed with this norm of submitting applications and then never hearing from search committees again in my life. At the very least, notifying everyone who did not make it after the cut is over should be common courtesy, even though we can figure it out for ourselves. We are, after all, nevertheless colleagues in the same discipline.
Conversely, I am quite underwhelmed with this norm of submitting applications and then never hearing from search committees again in my life. At the very least, notifying everyone who did not make it after the cut is over should be common courtesy, even though we can figure it out for ourselves. We are, after all, nevertheless colleagues in the same discipline.
