Speculate on whose hiring next year (2011-2012)

[Jumpstart]

I know this may be a little early, but I was curious if anyone would enjoy speculating about what schools will be posting jobs for next year? What have you heard? If nothing else, it will give us something to do until they start posting the new positions!

[kippers]

I'm sure the ones who didn't hire this year will try again

Other than that, not so sure. I hope the market continues to recover so we can all find jobs!

[guesses]

Schools I imagine might hire. If no explanation listed, just a hunch based on not remembering recent hires or vague memories of failed searches. I have no special information on any school, so this is almost pure speculation.

Wisconsin: they seem to hire almost every year
Harvard:ditto
UNC: lost folks this year
Michigan: did they hire this year? I know they didn't last year
Pennsylvania: I don't think they have hired in a while
Berkeley?
Princeton: don't have any strong sense of what they've been up to, but it wouldn't surprise me
Texas
Columbia
NYU
Indiana
Ohio State
Grinnell
Penn State
Yale
Oregon
Mississippi State (they've hired a lot, but I think they might just be re-running the same searches over years... any insight?)
Ohio


Schools I doubt would hire based on "they don't hire every year but they've hired lately"
Massachusetts
UCLA
Chicago
South Carolina
Tennessee
Washington
Maryland
Stanford
Umass-Boston
Georgetown
Illinois
Illinois-Chicago
Vanderbilt
Kansas?
Utah
Utah State
Arizona State
UNC-Asheville
Appalachian State
Cincinnatti

[anonyanon]

At PAA I heard that Rice will be hiring, possibly for two positions.

[maybe]

I think Ohio State hired this year...

SUNY Albany (Criminal Justice) has an on-going opening that will be reconsidered again in the fall.

[One more]

University of Nebraska should be hiring.

[Ummm]

I like the list, but a few suggestions:

1) UCLA will definitely be hiring again. Their enrollment is through the roof and they tried to hire three people this year and only got one. They only have three APs right now in a very large department.

2) Michigan did hire this year, but they-like Wisconsin- seem to hire every year.

3) UNC Lost senior folks, but hired two juniors. Hiring is probably more likely to occur at the senior level.

4) Harvard will most likely hire because undergraduate enrollment is expanding.

5) Princeton: rumor has it they really wanted a gender person, or someone who does comparative historical. Unfortunately they didn't reach this consensus until after they invited candidates. I wouldn't be surprised if they ran another search.

[David]

Based on people's over-enthusiasm for elevated adjunct work like VAP stuff, the prediction is that more and more will go that direction as has been the case the past few years anyway. And this year, it looks more true than ever. As long as people accept this very illusory and dead-end work that is so poorly compensated upon finishing the highest degree in the land (often after incurring great amounts of debt), the situation will persist. The problem is structural and the institutions are to blame--- but as long as people view VAP work with such giddiness (see other threads on this) , the powers that be have no reason to change. Things change because we make them change.

[Paddywhack]

Are we including schools where we know someone is leaving...or has left and thus have a vacancy...if so I know of two more schools...but I dont want to name just yet...guess i just want to say I know slots are opening up...so trying to be optimistic.
Also, I know of two positions that are open but "frozen" until ...?

[molly]

Cornell - two failed searches in a row (econ soc)

[moreguesses]

Boston College and Syracuse have said they are hiring next year since they didn't have successful searches this time.

Heard a rumor that UBC in Vancouver may hire.

Like the above poster I am skeptical that UNC will hire again (esp at the junior level) given the NC budget situation, massive cuts to higher ed, and two hires in the dept this year.

Berkeley lost a person to Duke so they may get a replacement line.

[word]

Cornell did hire this year.

I'm not sure people leaving definitely means places will be hiring. Certainly this will help department chairs make cases to the deans, but they do not in and of themselves guarantee that people will be replaced.

[anonime]

Sorry for this non-related post but this is a response to David above on VAP:

Your tone was offensive. The over-enthusiasm over VAP positions was due to the fact that not all of us got tenure track positions and were happy enough to get a VAP position that is so much different from the adjunct stints I had because it offers full salary and benefits. I would rather have a tenure-track position. Who wouldn't? But I am happy enough to get a VAP than face unemployment that has caused discouragement among those who couldn't find anything (Have you read that thread, too?). That was why people who got VAP positions were 'giddy' as you put it.

Thank you very much for your emphatic post. That's one way to end one's week.

[interesting]

Apr 15, 2011 13:08:33 GMT -5 @word said:

Cornell did hire this year.

Who did they hire? Do you know?

[VAP]

anonime, I think David meant schools are overly enthusiastic about hiring VAPs, not that we on the market were overly enthusiastic about taking VAP positions. The school where I have accepted a VAP position seems to have at least two VAPs in the department all the time, but the school won't give them another TT line (yet). The weird thing is, this school offers a salary/benefit package to VAPs that is almost identical to what they give TT assistant professors--I guess the difference is they can always let the VAPs go in a budget crunch, and they can keep them perpetually at an entry level salary.