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THE JOB MARKET
GENERAL BACKGROUND STORIES
Where the Jobs Are
(10/3/2003)
The Gap That Won't Go Away (4/18/2003)
The Subtle Side of Discrimination
(4/18/2003)
Job Applications Go Paperless
(1/3/2003)
Georgia Regents Allow Universities to Use More Lecturers (9/13/2002)
Faculty Salaries Rise, for Now (4/19/2002)
Europe Tries to Attract a New Generation of Academics (3/8/2002)
The Tightening Job Market (1/11/2002)
The State of Hiring (1/11/2002)
Colleges Have Cut Proportion of Full-Time Faculty Members, Study Finds (11/2/2001)
Survey Shows Salary Gap Between Men and Women in the Life Sciences (10/26/2001)
Stipends Are Key in Competition to Land Top Graduate Students (9/28/2001)
Early-Retirement Offers to Faculty Members Are Common, a Study Finds (8/10/2001)
The Hiring Boom at 2-Year Colleges (6/15/2001)
The Price Professors Pay for Teaching at Public Universities (4/20/2001)
The Backlash Against Hiring Couples (4/13/2001)
Looking (Without Much Success) for New Ways to Help Postdocs (3/23/2001)
Job-Sharing Rises as Professors Seek Flexible Schedules (12/8/2000)
What Does It Mean When a College Hires 5 Black Scholars? (6/9/2000)
A Couple's Struggle to Find Good Jobs in the Same City (4/21/2000)
Please Place This in an Appropriate Colleague's Mailbox (4/14/2000)
The Right Conditions May Lure Scholars to Jobs Off the Tenure Track, Study Finds (4/7/2000)
Affirmative Action's Impact on Academe Has Been Minimal, a New Book Argues (3/24/2000)
A New Push for ABD's to Cross the Finish Line (3/24/2000)
The Imminent Surge in Retirements (3/17/2000)
Two Academic Careers and One Fulfilling Job (3/17/2000)
Despite Their Gripes, Professors Are Generally Pleased With Careers, Poll Finds (3/3/2000)
Part-Timers Continue to Replace Full-Timers on College Faculties (1/28/2000)
Graduate Students Enjoy New Clout in MLA to Push Agenda of Job-Market Issues (12/17/99)
Canadian Universities Are Losing Top Professors to U.S. Institutions (9/17/99)
Persistence Paid Off for 'Lost Generation' of English Ph.D.'s, Study Finds (9/10/99)
Web Sites Track the Latest Rumors About Jobs in Science (6/4/99)
- 4 Web Sites on the Job Market in Physics and Astronomy. (6/4/99)
Master's Degrees Are the Hot Topic at a Meeting on Doctoral Education (4/30/99)
A National Project Aims to "Re-Envision" the Ph.D. (4/16/99)
The Frustrating Career of the "Trailing Spouse" (3/19/99)
For Job Hunters in Academe, 1999 Offers Signs of an Upturn (1/29/99)
More Community Colleges Push to Hire Ph.D.'s as Professors (1/8/99)
Reaching the Tenure Track (9/4/98)
Project Seeks to Help Colleges Use Peer Review to Evaluate Teaching (01/16/98)
Career Success for Some Ph.D.'s Comes by Leaving Academe Behind (10/31/97)
Horror Stories and Practical Advice: a New Book on the Academic Job Market (9/19/97)
A Graduate Student's Job Search Leads Her Far Afield (4/25/97)
Job Market for Ph.D.'s Shows First Signs of Improvement (1/31/97)
Universities Debate What They Should Do About Tight Job Market (3/15/96)
New Generation of Professors Is Changing the Face of Academe (2/2/96)
Job-Market Blues: Instead of the Anticipated Demand, New Ph.D.'s Are Finding Few
Openings (4/27/94)
SALARIES
The Great Divide
(5/30/2003)
A table lists average faculty salaries by field at four-year institutions in 2002-3. (5/30/2003)
Lawyers Top Faculty-Salary List -- Again (9/6/2002)
A Shortage of Business Professors Leads to 6-Figure Salaries for New Ph.D.'s (5/4/2001)
Law and Finance Professors Are Top Earners in Academe, Survey Finds (5/28/99)
Faculty Salaries Are Up 3.6%, Double the Rate of Inflation (4/23/99)
- Charts and tables with details on faculty salaries at more than 1,800 institutions. (4/23/99)
Public Universities Appeal for Funds to Improve Faculty Salaries (2/26/99)
PART-TIME FACULTY MEMBERS
OPINION: Adjuncts Should Not Just Be Visitors in the Academic Promised Land
(3/29/2002)
Proportion of Part-Time Faculty Members Leveled Off From 1992 to 1998, Data Show (5/4/2001)
MLA Survey Reveals Wide Discrepancy in Part-Time Faculty Members' Earnings (1/5/2001)
Part-Timers Continue to Replace Full-Timers on College Faculties (1/28/2000)
Professors Publish How-To Guide for Part-Time Academics (7/30/99)
Georgia State U. Cuts Some Part-Time Positions to Add 65 Full-Time Faculty Jobs (6/11/99)
Yale Relies on TA's and Adjuncts for Teaching, Report Says (4/9/99)
For Some Adjunct Faculty Members, the Tenure Track Holds Little Appeal (7/24/98)
Do Accreditors Look the Other Way When Colleges Rely on Part-Timers? (11/7/97)
Reliance on Lecturers Said to Produce 'Faceless Departments' (3/28/97)
Scholars Off the Tenure Track Wonder If They'll Ever Get On (6/14/96)
Math Society Attacks Hiring of Part-Time Professors (2/16/94)
IN SPECIFIC DISCIPLINES
Interest in the Islamic World Produces Academic Jobs in U.S. (3/1/2002)
Report Reveals Tight Job Market for Historians of Gay Topics (7/6/2001)
Psychology Ph.D.'s Pass on Academe (1/12/2001)
Job Market Improves for Historians, and Competition Stiffens for Senior Scholars (1/21/2000)
Finding New Paths for Ph.D.'s in the Humanities (4/16/99)
Business Schools Report Big Increase in Hiring (3/19/99)
New Economics Ph.D.'s See Better Job Market (1/15/99)
Graduate Students Win Concessions at Contentious MLA Meeting (1/8/99)
Foundation Issues Plan to Expand Job Opportunities for Humanities Ph.D.'s (12/18/98)
Embittered by a Bleak Job Market, Graduate Students Take On the MLA (12/18/98)
Universities Scramble to Find Teachers of Freshman Composition (10/30/98)
Citing 'Crisis' in Job Market, MLA Urges Changes in Graduate Education (01/09/98)
Science Ph.D. Students Told to Prepare for Non-Academic Careers (6/28/96)
Unemployment Rate for Language Ph.D.'s Hits 10-Year High (1/12/96)
U. of Iowa Is Doing Something Right (7/27/94)
MLA Looks at How Universities Are Filling Empty Slots (7/27/94)
DOCTORAL PROGRAMS
Doctor Dropout (1/16/2004)
The Path to a Ph.D. -- and Beyond (6/6/2003)
A Shortage of Business Professors Leads to 6-Figure Salaries for New Ph.D.'s (5/4/2001)
Why Do So Many People Leave Graduate School Without a Ph.D.? (6/1/2001)
Graduate Studies in Science Expand Beyond the Ph.D. (4/6/2001)
The Number of New Ph.D.'s Drops for the First Time Since 1985 (2/9/2001)
Survey Points to Mismatch in Doctoral Programs (1/26/2001)
Universities See Slight Increase in Number of Doctorates Awarded (11/26/99)
A Doctoral Dropout's Quest for Closure (11/5/99)
Journal Publishes 6 Scholars' Debate on the Job Market for Humanities Ph.D.'s (11/5/99)
A University Decides That Its Ph.D.'s Should Be Able to Talk to Average Joes (10/8/99)
Doctoral Programs Decide That Smaller Is Better (2/26/99)
Boston U. Management School Pays New Professors More if They Work Under Contract (7/17/98)
Bucking Tradition, Washington U. Shrinks Its Ph.D. Programs (3/21/97)
Study Says U.S. Universities Produce Too Many Doctorates (6/30/95)
OPINION
How (Not) to Treat Job Candidates (12/19/2003)
Location, Location, Location (11/14/2003)
Back to High School (11/7/2003)
Two-Year Colleges Not for You? Think Again (10/24/2003)
Going It Alone (10/10/2003)
Some Reflection on Rejection (8/15/2003)
Pinch Me: I'm a Full-Time Historian (9/19/2003)
Dizzy With Options (7/25/2003)
A Steadier State in Hiring for Colleges
(6/6/2003)
10 Ways to Keep Graduate Students From Quitting (6/29/2001)
The Random Insanity of Letters of Recommendation (3/1/2002)
A Bill of Rights for Job Candidates (1/26/2001)
Why Can't I Get a Raise? (9/22/2000)
As Professors Age, Retirement Policies Need Rejuvenating (6/2/2000)
Colleges Shouldn't Be Employment Agencies (4/16/99)
Scholarly Associations Must Face the True Causes of the Academic Job Crisis (12/18/98)
Pressures to Publish Fuel the Professionalization of Today's Graduate Students (11/27/98)
Why Pursuing a Ph.D. Is a Risky Business (11/14/97)
Doctoral Education Must Match Needs and Realities (11/29/96)
Academe's New Class of Migrant Workers (9/13/96)
Faculty Diversity When Jobs Are Scarce: Debunking the Myths (9/6/96)
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