Category Archives: Job market

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 Association and the American Economic Association reveal sharp drops in the number of available positions in their respective disciplines. Coming just weeks after the Modern Language Association revealed historic drops in the availability of jobs for English and foreign language professors, the data show that while new English and foreign language Ph.D.’s may have a particularly tough time finding employment, they are by no means alone.

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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 positions in English language and literature will drop 35 percent from last year, while positions in languages other than English are expected to fall 39 percent this year. Given that both categories saw decreases last year, the two-year decline in available positions is 51 percent in English and 55 percent in foreign languages.

The Chronicle: Job Slump Worsens for Language and Literature Scholars

The job market for language and literature scholars, already weak before the recession hit, is likely to leave job seekers chasing a rapidly shrinking pool of jobs for the next several years.

A new analysis of employment advertising conducted by the Modern Language Association, to be released on Thursday, projects a 37-percent drop in faculty positions advertised in the association’s electronic job list this academic year, compared with last yea

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Inside Higher Ed: The Depressed History Job Market

One job seeker at the AHA carried this sign last year and brought it back this year — still looking.

NEW YORK — This year’s decline in academic jobs in history may be 15 percent or higher, according to preliminary data presented Sunday at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. The figures came as no surprise to the graduate students here seeking jobs. Reports abounded of job searches being called off, or of people in interviews being warned of the strong possibility that the openings might not be filled this year. People leaving the job interview area of the meeting were trading stories about which jobs might actually be filled. Job candidates who a year ago had goals of four or five interviews here were thrilled to have one.

The Chronicle: Economy’s Toll on Job Market Is Evident at Historians’ Meeting

A five-year stretch of steady growth in the job market for academic historians is over, the American Historical Association announced at its annual meeting here last weekend.

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Inside Higher Ed: Disappearing Jobs

For a few months now, reports on this year’s job hunts in English and foreign languages have been depressing, as departments and candidates have seen searches called off.

Today the Modern Language Association is releasing information on just how bad the situation is: The number of job postings in the MLA’s Job Information List will be down 21 percent in 2008-9, the steepest annual decline in its 34-year history. For English language and literature, the drop will be 22.2 percent and for foreign languages, 19.6 percent. Not all jobs are listed with the MLA, so the figures don’t cover every position, but the MLA’s postings have tracked consistently with national trends, especially for the assistant professor positions that are so desirable to new Ph.D.’s who want to land on the tenure track.

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ExpressBuzz: All seven IIMs reeling under faculty crunch

BANGALORE: Every year there is an exponential increase in the number of CAT (Common Admission Test) aspirants.

However, if the fresh data procured from the HRD (Human Resource Development) Ministry is anything to go by, then these aspirants are in for the shock of their lives.

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