June 11, 2009

The Courtesy of a Reply Is Requested

To the Editor:

Perhaps I'm the only one, but in my experience as a job seeker in higher education I've noticed that academic institutions tend to ask a lot of job applicants, and return sorry little to those of us on the rejection pile. Most —not all, but the vast majority of colleges to which I've applied for faculty posts —have not bothered to get back to me at all.

The process of hiring a tenure-track professor is notoriously long, so in each case I held out

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