Job Market for Economists Turns … Dismal
Wall Street Journal: Job Market for Economists Turns … Dismal The dismal economy has claimed yet another victim: jobs for the economists who study it. Columbia University’s economics department, for...
View ArticleJohns Hopkins Freezes Hiring and Salaries, and Will Cut Top Administrators’ Pay
The Chronicle News Blog: Johns Hopkins Freezes Hiring and Salaries, and Will Cut Top Administrators’ Pay The Johns Hopkins University announced today that it would freeze all hiring and most salary...
View ArticleEmployment for Spouses Gets Harder to Find
The Chronicle: Employment for Spouses Gets Harder to Find Last summer, Chidori Boeheim and her husband, Chuck, had a quintessential dual-career moment. Mr. Boeheim, who at the time was assistant...
View ArticleDoctoral Candidates Anticipate Hard Times
The New York Times: Doctoral Candidates Anticipate Hard Times Chris Pieper began looking for an academic job in sociology about six months ago, sending off about two dozen application packets. The...
View ArticleGraduate students hoping for tenure-track positions face bleak prospects as...
Globe and Mail: Black days for those dreaming of the ivory tower Graduate students hoping for tenure-track positions face bleak prospects as universities cut budgets and freeze hiring McGill graduate...
View ArticleThey’re Hiring in Hong Kong
The Chronicle: They’re Hiring in Hong Kong Universities recruit professors worldwide in ambitious overhaul Andrej Bogdanov would have been a great catch for any American university. Arriving in the...
View ArticleThe Disappearing Tenure-Track Job
Inside Higher Ed: The Disappearing Tenure-Track Job Year by year, various federal data sets are released, and document the steady growth of adjunct positions and decline of tenure-track jobs in the...
View ArticleThe Economy and Adjunct Hiring
The Chronicle: The Economy and Adjunct Hiring Over the past few months, I have been trying to discern a pattern to how the recession has affected adjunct faculty members. Are part timers being...
View ArticleLessons of a Dual Hire
The Chronicle: Lessons of a Dual Hire Two Career Couples Illustration Careers By Rebecca Manderlay It’s been three years since I first wrote about the search my husband, “Tom,” and I undertook for...
View ArticleAnatomy of a Flawed Hire
Inside Higher Ed: Anatomy of a Flawed Hire The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators was in a vulnerable state as it hired a new president late in 2007. The group had been...
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Korean University Professors Union Reports Layoffs and Protests
Report from Korean University Irregular Professors Union, Chairman Kim Youngkon: Korea University laid off 88 irregular professors in July. Professors who have doctorate are except from the law that...
View ArticleU. of North Carolina Campuses Under Fresh Scrutiny for Hiring Practices
The Chronicle: U. of North Carolina Campuses Under Fresh Scrutiny for Hiring Practices State lawmakers and a state employees’ association are expressing concern about the University of North Carolina...
View ArticleJob Slump Worsens for Language and Literature Scholars
Inside Higher Ed: Disappearing Jobs The job picture in the humanities is going from bad to worse. The Modern Language Association’s annual forecast on job listings, being released today, predicts that...
View ArticleThe job crisis for faculty jobs — especially for new Ph.D.’s looking for...
Inside Higher Ed: No Entry The job crisis for faculty jobs — especially for new Ph.D.’s looking for tenure-track jobs — is spreading. Data being released this week by the American Historical...
View ArticleSIU faculty warned of possible layoffs
Herald-Review: SIU faculty warned of possible layoffs CARBONDALE — Southern Illinois University at Carbondale is putting some employees on notice layoffs could happen later this year. A letter from the...
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CUPE 2278 TAs Have Everything to Gain with Strike Vote at UBC
On Wednesday, 24 October, CUPE 2278 teaching assistants at the University of British Columbia (UBC) will take a strike vote. For each and every one of the graduate students, this should be a ‘no...
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Students, the PMO might ‘do ya a Duffy’ and pay off your debt #DoYaADuffy...
With the Office of the Prime Minister (PMO) open to ‘do ya a Duffy’, how about paying off the loans bankrupting a generation? If you can write a $90,000 cheque, no questions asked (NQA) to Mike Duffy...
View ArticleNews and Views from the Center for the Study of Education and Work
News and Views from the Centre for the Study of Education and Work (CSEW), OISE/UT http://www.csew.ca NEWS & VIEWS ‘PUSHED TO THE EDGE,’ SEATTLE’S LOW WAGE WORKERS JOIN SWEEPING MOVEMENT By Lauren...
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Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions (CGEU) conference August 1-4, 2013
You are cordially invited to the 22nd annual Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions (CGEU) conference and the 9th annual Canadian Coalition of Graduate Employee Unions conference, hosted concurrently...
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