Has the faculty search gotten worse?

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Maybe Amherst is getting what it deserves: look at how many of those people are in crappy VAP or lecturer positions compared to tenure track.

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Anonymous wrote:Academe doesn't pay very well (unless you are at a top school) and expects a lot of work.

You'd think Amherst could get Princeton, Berkeley, Harvard level candidates. Really crazy to see the decline so quickly

They can and do.

There's evidence right here showing they do not. There's people from Iowa teaching at Amherst now for crying out loud!

Truly, the Midwest could not possibly produce a brilliant scholar

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe Amherst is getting what it deserves: look at how many of those people are in crappy VAP or lecturer positions compared to tenure track.

What's that supposed to mean? Amherst is getting what it budgets for, which is not permanent positions. In which case you all REALLY need to give these people a break, no mid-career scholar with multiple books is going to move for a VAP.

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe Amherst is getting what it deserves: look at how many of those people are in crappy VAP or lecturer positions compared to tenure track.

What's that supposed to mean? Amherst is getting what it budgets for, which is not permanent positions. In which case you all REALLY need to give these people a break, no mid-career scholar with multiple books is going to move for a VAP.

Amherst should have the budget for permanent faculty. Reduce the financial aid handout kids and provide a good education.

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Anonymous wrote:Academe doesn't pay very well (unless you are at a top school) and expects a lot of work.

You'd think Amherst could get Princeton, Berkeley, Harvard level candidates. Really crazy to see the decline so quickly

They can and do.

There's evidence right here showing they do not. There's people from Iowa teaching at Amherst now for crying out loud!

Truly, the Midwest could not possibly produce a brilliant scholar

Can you name one that isn't in Chicago? I'll wait.

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Anonymous wrote:Amherst has hit bottom. Stay away!!!

Is this true? My kid is looking to apply.

Of course not. Amherst and Williams are the top two LACs, on a prestige level of T15s, by anyone who knows anything. It is a feeder(tier 1) to top med schools and is a top phD feeder too. Graduates are highly respected. Ignore PP

Amherst has none of the top phd feeder status as Williams. It isn't even in the top 5 lacs that produced PhDs in any field. It gets the clout from Williams.

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Anonymous wrote:I just ran a faculty search for a leading R01 university in engineering. We got 300+ applications (another department got 800) and had to turn away ridiculously amazing applicants. When you said "has the faculty search gotten worse" I was thinking you meant "more competitive for applicants."

Then why not choose the most qualified and best applicants from the best schools. Stop the DEI craze and give people an $80,000 education

We did choose the best people. Postdoc from Stsnford and another from MIT. Multiple papers in the top journals in the field for each. Already bringing millions in funding. And want to teach too, though that is not our priority in hiring here at an R01. We hire the most excellent professors and have no idea what you are talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:Academe doesn't pay very well (unless you are at a top school) and expects a lot of work.

You'd think Amherst could get Princeton, Berkeley, Harvard level candidates. Really crazy to see the decline so quickly

They can and do.

There's evidence right here showing they do not. There's people from Iowa teaching at Amherst now for crying out loud!

Truly, the Midwest could not possibly produce a brilliant scholar

Can you name one that isn't in Chicago? I'll wait.

I am a coastal snob and even I know about the University of Michigan and Wash U, to name a few. Go home.

[Anonymous]

lol this is hands down the dumbest thread I’ve ever read on DCUM and I’ve read a lot

-R1 full prof

[Anonymous]

Word on the street is that UCs have the worst faculty recently due to their h3ll hole state being impossible to recruit to. Amherst must be getting the remnants

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Anonymous wrote:lol this is hands down the dumbest thread I’ve ever read on DCUM and I’ve read a lot

-R1 full prof

Do you genuinely think these people would've been tenure track even 5 years ago?

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Anonymous wrote: Word on the street is that UCs have the worst faculty recently due to their h3ll hole state being impossible to recruit to. Amherst must be getting the remnants

I've even heard the kids are having to take engineering class time to build the schools a heat mitigation plan, because it is so unbearably hot. People dropping like flies. The state will be deserted in 3 months tops.

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In a prof and this thread is chilling. Really? Naming minority profs and saying they’re not good enough? This is clearly a right wing troll with an agenda. I hope Jeff deleted the whole thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Academe doesn't pay very well (unless you are at a top school) and expects a lot of work.

You'd think Amherst could get Princeton, Berkeley, Harvard level candidates. Really crazy to see the decline so quickly

They can and do.

There's evidence right here showing they do not. There's people from Iowa teaching at Amherst now for crying out loud!

Truly, the Midwest could not possibly produce a brilliant scholar

Can you name one that isn't in Chicago? I'll wait.

I am a coastal snob and even I know about the University of Michigan and Wash U, to name a few. Go home.

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:In a prof and this thread is chilling. Really? Naming minority profs and saying they’re not good enough? This is clearly a right wing troll with an agenda. I hope Jeff deleted the whole thing.

Sickening. Thank you