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@ZeChocMoose Thank you for sharing the link. I have been comparing some of the hiring freeze claims of the schools listed on the blog post to the actual schools' human resources websites, and not all the schools are implementing hiring freezes. For example, Pittsburgh was listed, but their website states that there is no hiring freeze (at least when I checked). I also want to share the news that I applied for a tenure track position in California the week before last week but I received an email on Monday that they have postponed the start date from September 2020 to September 2021. They did not cancel the position. I also want to share the good news that the day before yesterday, I received an email from a university in Michigan and they have invited me to an interview for a tenure track position. Unfortunately it is not a face-to-face interview due to Covid19. Instead, they are conducting it virtually. They asked for my telephone number and id for the virtual meeting. So, basically, by sharing this fresh news, I want to reiterate that there is some hope!! Stay positive, folks...don't give up. Keep applying. I noticed tenure track positions were posted up until March 26, and hopefully they will continue to do so!!

@purplepepper Hey, thanks for the comment. I think I can ease some of the worry...I do not think tenured faculty members would be laid off. Tenured faculty members have achieved one of the hardest things in academia, namely tenure, they are on the path to a permanent life-time job. They have proved their track record for service, teaching, and research. It would be more conceivable that non-tenured, adjunct members might be laid off, because there is no job guarantee for them and they live contract-to-contract, and they have not had the service, teaching, and research contributions to the same extent that a tenure-track or tenured faculty member have had. The universities would be embroiled in litigation if tenured faculty members were ever to be laid off... But then again, the adjuncts are doing the majority of teaching, at low pay, which is efficient for the university...so who knows how this will play out.

What is an SLPA?

It takes a very long time to get something published. This is why you should start as early as possible. If you can submit a second (different) paper somewhere else, you should do that, too.

Don't listen to him if you want a TT track job or anything nice in academia. There is a reason there is a publish or perish paradigm in academia...he is leading you towards perishing. Publish something...do... it... now, but in a reputable, quality journal. It is not easy getting published. On average, it takes me two years to get a paper published from the first start/submission to final publication.

By the time I finished my PhD, I had 5 peer reviewed journal articles as first author, 1 peer reviewed book chapter in a university press as first author, 2 published conference abstracts, and 1 technical report for a government, bringing my publication count to 9. Everyone told me it was extremely important to publish in my field of health. I am getting interviews for both post docs and TT jobs, and I think the reason folks are taking me seriously is because of my publication record.

Yes, horror stories in academia are very common, and the reason is because there are many strong personalities in privileged positions of power and they love their power and want to keep it and their positions. I had the same thing happen to me with my ex-supervisor and deep down I had a hunch they were plagiarizing my work. Thankfully I got rid of them and published everything early on so that I had documented evidence that my work was indeed my own.

I feel like you could give it a try, but from my experience, when I applied to PhD-normally required and PhD-ABD-is-acceptable-jobs, I still did not get called because they wanted a FINISHED PhD. I am now finished the PhD and still find that it is hard getting jobs because each job posting gets hundreds of applicants and the really nice jobs get up to thousands of applicants. The experience of applying is always a good thing, IMO.

Thank you, congratulations on your undergrad senior thesis!!!

@purplepepper Thank you! I would feel even better if I actually got an offer, lol. ? Miami University implemented a freeze. I think Kansas State, and Wright State in Ohio, too. Yes, those freezes are due to Covid19. I think our optimism is good, because universities continue to post TT positions, I checked and some posted positions two days ago, on the weekend!!

I am SO glad I found this thread. I had posted a similar question as well in another post. I just wanted to state that before the Covid19 crisis I had several interviews and one campus visit. I applied for over 30 job applications to date; some were immediate for 2019 which closed in 2019. I received polite emails stating that the position(s) were filled. For the jobs with the August 2020 start dates, the positions are still open although it is now late March and I would have thought that if the start time was so immediate, they would have called people for interviews by now. Having said that, a TT position that I had applied for back in November 2019 had a closing in Jan 2020; I was telephone interviewed in late Jan; and then emailed/called again in Feb; and had a campus visit in early March. I have still not heard back. A number of universities in the midwest and northwestern United States have implemented hiring freezes; but I never applied to them anyway. Let's hope the TT hiring continues despite this new 2020 Recession...I am still optimistic.

I just observed a "virtual" campus visit and saw a teaching and research demonstration at my department on Friday as an "observer". I thought it would be good experience to see how the interviews are being conducted given that I might have to experience a virtual interview myself (hopefully) at some point if I get recruited for the "virtual" campus visit. The hiring committee was wonderful and the interviewee/candidate was very experienced. Fingers crossed that I get "called" somewhere...

You finished your PhD dissertation last semester? Congratulations! I finished mine and convocated last semester too! I don't know what would have happened given the circumstances of the world today...

I recently graduated and applied to a number of tenure-track jobs, postdoctoral fellowships, teaching-track jobs, and non-tenured academic jobs. I received a number of interviews; however, recently there has only been silence...likely due to suspension of in-person classes and implementation of online-classes at most universities. Has anyone hear back from the relevant HR departments since the CoVid19 craziness that has ensued?

I hear you fellow hajji...I come from a marginalized/racialized community and I just graduated and applied for a number of jobs...to my horror some of the jobs have disappeared altogether...and when I looked all over the internet for traces of UFO-abduction, I came across a message stating that the position was cancelled by the organization. I blame Covid-19. For the moment, the conference I am expecting to attend has not been cancelled and registration begins in the summer...let's hope for the best...