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Strategic Job-Hunting
At MLA meeting, amid the frenzy and disappointment about lack of positions, some new Ph.D.s discuss paths to good careers (even if not those they once envisioned). Are grad programs providing any help?
English Down, Languages Up
Data released ahead of MLA convention set tone for hiring in the humanities this season.
Flipping the Job Search
Husband and wife on the faculty hiring market decide to post their requirements so that colleges can apply to employ them.
What Humanities Job Crisis?
The data suggest that things are improving, and that the worst shifts reflect larger societal changes, not academe, writes Chase F. Robinson.
Should Faculty Be Fingerprinted?
Proposed policy at Florida Gulf Coast U. raises question of what a university is entitled to track about every professor.
Living Cheap Enough?
With student debt surpassing $1 trillion, graduate school deans discuss the implications for graduate school admissions and retention and the importance of financial literacy.
A Market Strategy
Seeing strength in numbers, adjunct faculty from across the Washington, D.C. region hope to form a metropolitan union to fight for equity in pay, benefits and more.
A Different Kind of Application Fee
Application fees are not just for prospective students anymore: some departments, generally in the fine arts, charge fees for applications for faculty positions.