blah, blah, blah. just get back to doing the job. enough with all the faux concern.
Fly Outs 2021-22
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This is ridiculous. It is not a liability issue nor is it an ADA issue. No one is being forced to interview.
Fly outs are immoral at this point. Say someone gets a breakthrough infection that can be contact traced back to the interview process at your university. And didn't get the job. And they get really, really sick. Do they sue your uni?
get vaccinated.Breakthrough infections = people who are vaccinated who get COVID. And some of them, even young people, get very, very sick.
Their presence on campus in a hiring situation IS a liability issue if they can trace their illness back there (contact tracing is a thing).
And we're not exactly looking looking to hire someone for their strong immune system anyway. People with disabilities deserve a chance and if they don't feel safe with an in-person hiring process during what remains a risky time for people with health concerns, we shouldn't be excluding them with our hiring procedures. This may also raise ADA concerns. -
Wildly irresponsible to do fly outs frankly when most schools are still holding research talks and seminars online
no. most schools do in-person.
In red states, most schools do in-person. So yes, if your tiny bubble in Texas or South Carolina is your entire world, you probably think everyone does this.
In blue states, no, most research talks/conferences that bring in outside people are still happening virtually. Simple google search will open your eyes to the wider world.
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This is ridiculous. It is not a liability issue nor is it an ADA issue. No one is being forced to interview.
Obviously someone who has no legal training, and speaks volumes about why we need competent university counsel, and why competent university lawyers are worth the $ they're paid.
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No risk it no biscuit
Conditions for getting a job this year
1. Must be US based
2. Must be BIPOC
3. Must be willing to risk getting the Rona
4. No DID
Can someone explained what happened with DiD?So DiD?
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3794018
among others
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In a red state here and we're doing videoconference for finalists, no flyouts. Our spectacular cheapness won out over in-person interviews; nobody in the state capital cares whether we maintain the appearance of business as usual as long as our classes are FTF and we don't make anyone mask up or get vaxxed.
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This is a real change that I think will be permanent because of COVID's shock to the system, even when it subsides. Until recently a big R1 dept like this just flew out 3-4 people and there were no preliminaries, even though the technology existed to do them. The Zoom interview or the Skype one or phone one was a teaching school thing. Hard to say if it's an Improvement, but different.
UCSD is doing Zoom preliminaries and will only fly out the finalist.
If that person blows it at the flyout they will go to the next on this list.
This is for the comparative politics position