By: 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”: New...
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 […]
View ArticleBy: is it bad when harvard does it too? « parezco y digo
[…] it bad when Harvard does it too? Yes. After all the kerfuffle over the CSU ad this past week, it turns out that Harvard’s English Department is using almost the same […]
View ArticleBy: » On being lazy and ignorant: Job ads that restrict the pool of...
[…] an email to Chad Black, an associate professor of early Latin American history at the University of Tennessee at […]
View ArticleBy: » A gloomy day in higher ed news Katina Rogers
[…] came the brazen academic job ads from CSU and Harvard; then came the announcement that Emory is drastically cutting […]
View ArticleBy: lola
From a Harvard Comp Lit ad currently on JIL: “Comp Lit, Dana Palmer House 16 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://complit.fas.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do Apply to this position Tenure-Track Assistant...
View ArticleBy: ctb
Yep. I <a href="https://parezcoydigo.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/is-it-bad-when-harvard-does-it-too/" rel="nofollow">saw that</a> earlier today.
View ArticleBy: To Hope or Not to Hope… Is that a question at all? — Teaching College...
[…] blog post, Old PhDs Need Not Apply, says: “ I find the language to be astonishingly dismissive of the reality of the humanities […]
View ArticleBy: Thana
I agree that they should just post maximum salary. Given that they are in a desirable area, they might be able to snag someone who would otherwise be ovberqualified. As long as the candidate and the...
View ArticleBy: Alt Academix - Benefits of an Altac Job
[…] new doctoral degrees. This is not an expression of cynicism or advocacy; I am merely pointing out a hiring system in practice, a system that makes faculty mobility more […]
View ArticleBy: not @mlajobs, no really « parezco y digo
[…] this Fall, I wrote a few pieces about the scurrilous formalization of the expiring PhD. In the wake of the furor caused by the ad from Colorado State, and another from Harvard, much […]
View ArticleBy: Earning the PhD and a Sense of False Hope: My Experiences (So Far) in...
[…] attention; we’ll see if it sticks. Read, for example, “Restricted Entry,” “Old PhDs Need Not Apply,” and “Why Bother? Thoughts from an “Old” PhD.” “Is this […]
View ArticleBy: Dr Jack Dempsey
It’s “funny” that I noticed that now-vanished “Chronicle” article and managed to find this one, in which the job in question is precisely my Ph.D. field (American Lit/Cultural Studies pre-1900, Brown...
View ArticleBy: people are our most valuable resource | Walk In Brain
[…] that loyalty, and actively looking for full-time work can be grounds for dismissal. On top of it, adjunct too long, and you may make it impossible to ever land that full-time […]
View ArticleBy: Out of the Mouths of Roses….. | Loquaciously Yours
[…] with the campus OEO for an American Lit specialist with a Ph.D. completed no earlier than 2010. A number of Ph.D.’s in English got a tad upset and there were articles in the Chronicle and...
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 Search Committee to...
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