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Anon
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« Reply #1 on: June 14, 2002, 10:49:02 AM » |
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Most community colleges primarily employ people with master's degrees. You will hear on the grapevine that this is changing because of the glut of Ph.D.'s in many fields and that Ph.D.'s are now applying more frequently to community-college jobs. In areas where there are a lot of jobless Ph.D.'s, you might have a lot of competition.
However, Ph.D.'s often don't initially understand what a community college is like. Often, once they interview, see how unfamiliar the mission is, how different the students are, how totally different their faculty colleagues are from what they are used to, not to mention the number of courses they'd have to teach, they back out of it.
In addition, the search committees at community colleges know very well that hiring a Ph.D. who will leave in a year or two is not wise. Often Ph.D.'s don't know how to interview for such jobs. They mistakenly stress their great research and publications, their grants, and how high their standards are and how intolerant they are of poor students or adult learners. This means they will never get the job, no matter how good they are.
I would find the Web sites of 10-12 community colleges in your area and look at the departments' pages to see who is working in each one, what kinds of courses they teach, and what sort of information is on their Web site. You might be able to get an idea of which schools are in markets where Ph.D.'s are likely to apply. Normally, I would say that the less urban, the less academically favorable, and the more vocational the community college, the better the chance of eliminating Ph.D.'s from the running.
Many community-college applications say that they will not even consider hiring people who have not been in the "workforce," and they'll ask for a list of non-academic jobs, so you don't have to worry on that account.
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