tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post5193163546750275841..comments2023-10-15T04:23:50.187-04:00Comments on College Misery: The search is overUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-32837221088565662862015-02-23T08:39:42.057-05:002015-02-23T08:39:42.057-05:00At my joint, we are about to lose a few faculty. B...At my joint, we are about to lose a few faculty. Bearing in mind that over the last decade, upper-level administrative positions have been created at about the same rate that tenure lines have disappeared, and bearing in mind that we're just getting by with the skeleton crew that remains in the trenches, I ask: dare we begin the search early? I try to make a case that a search absorbs Ogre Proctor Hephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17428431147495287413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-84173292931143003402015-02-22T01:49:26.964-05:002015-02-22T01:49:26.964-05:00I once served on a committee that took a year to c...I once served on a committee that took a year to choose a new copier... and another 6 months to choose a vendor to provide a service contract for said copier.Karen Ackoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01527412523732265688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-56735186748754988242015-02-21T16:46:48.657-05:002015-02-21T16:46:48.657-05:00We don't want superstars, so much as swiss arm...We don't want superstars, so much as swiss army knives: multifunction device-colleagues with whom we can solve our (known) failings in one swell foop. <br /><br />Oh, and they have to be willing to move to a state from which people are jumping ship for precisely the reasons CC listed, for a salary that's small enough...Jonathan Dresnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04356112719229675996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-81008758874663619622015-02-21T14:51:14.177-05:002015-02-21T14:51:14.177-05:00Sounds like what happened some years ago at a chur...Sounds like what happened some years ago at a church I used to go to. The leadership counsel managed to nearly drive our pastor to a nervous breakdown and so he ended up resigning. They formed a pastoral search committee who dragged their feet on EVERYTHING because it meant that the committee would have dinner once a week at an expensive chinese restaurant at the church's expense.<br /><brEmergency Mathematical Hologramhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15873569623797587860noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-91748690608190835532015-02-21T13:12:36.321-05:002015-02-21T13:12:36.321-05:00I think there's a lot of this going around. Pe...I think there's a lot of this going around. People are anxious to move for various reasons (stagnant salaries, crazy governors/chancellors/university presidents, declining support for research) to move, but, since all of the above are affecting institutions of all kinds all over the country, the grass in other places turns out to be not as green as the candidate had hoped (and, conversely, Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-6618866197477530832015-02-21T13:09:26.756-05:002015-02-21T13:09:26.756-05:00Hah! I like "Wissisippi". I hope being u...Hah! I like "Wissisippi". I hope being unable to hire anyone teaches you gov. a little lesson (except that the destruction is consistent with his goals.)<br /><br />As for this "looking for a superstar": typical adminiflake, this arrogant belief that it's such an employer's market, anyone can hire "above their standing". They can't (like we can't at Peter Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00754472537710161295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883226237165701608.post-54644144373985844812015-02-21T12:29:08.675-05:002015-02-21T12:29:08.675-05:00Ugh. You have my empathy. Here in Wississippi, job...Ugh. You have my empathy. Here in Wississippi, jobs remain open and people are dropping out of searches because who in their right mind would come here if they had ANY other options?BurntChromehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06055976331443607569noreply@blogger.com