Hiring (and Firing) Bytes

Dartmouth College is cutting 60 staffers — and trimming the hours of another 28 — this week in response to a budget crunch caused by massive losses in its endowment, the Associated Press reports. While no tenured or tenure-track faculty members will be axed, starting July 1 most salaries will be frozen, President James Wright told AP reporters.
Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science plans to eliminate 10 percent of its faculty and staff and reduce top administrators’ salaries in an effort to cut costs by $10-million, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Middle Tennessee State University is considering a proposal that would cut 65 temporary teaching jobs and furlough faculty members one day a month, The Murfreesboro Post reports.
The University of Chicago Medical Center announced Monday that it plans to slash 450 jobs and eliminate hundreds more through attrition, The Chicago Tribune reports.
A Wall Street Journal article confirms that this year’s job market for dismal scientists is, in fact, dismal.
According to the Portland Business Journal, a presidential-search committee at Eastern Oregon University has pared its list of finalists to four. The leading contenders to succeed Dixie Lund, who has held the job of interim president since July 2007, are Bob Davies, vice president for university relations at Indiana University of Pennsylvania; Charles Harrington, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke; Thomas Krepel, assistant to the president at Northern Illinois University; and Linda Rinker, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Western Connecticut State University.
The Boston Globe reports that college and university employment in the Boston area rose by 18.4 percent — more than any other industry — between 1990 and 2006, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Globe also reports that University of Massachusetts administrators and professors were among the state’s highest earners, according to a new payroll report.