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By: 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 [...]

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By: » 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 [...]

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By: » 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 [...]

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By: 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...

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By: 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.

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By: 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 [...]

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By: 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...

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By: 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 [...]

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By: 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 [...]

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By: 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 [...]

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By: 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...

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By: 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 [...]

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By: 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...

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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...

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By: 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...

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By: 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...

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By: “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...

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By: 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...

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By: 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...

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By: 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 […]

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