There won't be a lot of jobs, but there will be more. I'm at an LRM/MRM with a hiring freeze this year, which sucks given the talent out there. Still, we are planning two hires next year, and I can't imagine that we are alone.
Hiring will come back (somewhat)
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OP is wrong. In my mid-Atlantic 1.5 million metro area, the only jobs that are coming up will be for VAPs and instructor positions. And lots of schools here still are doing layoffs even if they don't call them that. Eventually, hiring will start again, but faculty power has been gutted so the security and benefits of the new jobs will be poor... and these losses will be amplified a whole career if the hires are lucky enough to have one in the academy.
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1) If you're holding out for a job in a particular metro region .... good luck in any academic job market.
2) How do you know what all the schools in your area are planning to offer as jobs next year?
3) Has your administration cut security and benefits to TT positions? That seems unlikely. -
1) If you're holding out for a job in a particular metro region .... good luck in any academic job market.
2) How do you know what all the schools in your area are planning to offer as jobs next year?
3) Has your administration cut security and benefits to TT positions? That seems unlikely.My school is already ramping up their hiring cycle (and is running a few Spring searches).
And no, we have not cut security/benefits for TT positions.
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1) 100%. How rare is it for someone to get a job in their current/desired location? Seems super rare to me. I've had to move several times.
2) Great question.
3) Some faculty have been furloughed.1) If you're holding out for a job in a particular metro region .... good luck in any academic job market.
2) How do you know what all the schools in your area are planning to offer as jobs next year?
3) Has your administration cut security and benefits to TT positions? That seems unlikely. -
There will be hiring. It won’t “come back”. A lot of places have lost a lot of money. A lot are locked into absurdly high wage bills on people they can’t get rid of. Their finances will generally continue to decline as there are fewer jobs that really need people to have a degree, especially a degree in many of the humanities and social sciences, and students are being more cautious. Higher education will go through a shake out. It may even be reinvented. The vast majority of places will mainly cut their faculty numbers, not fully replace retirees, and continue to look to VAPs and adjuncts. Sorry, but those are the facts.