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das Zugunglück: June 2015
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Notes on the history and present state of the train wreck known as German Studies and the academic job market. Friday, June 5, 2015. 2014-15 a Record-Breaking Year for Exit-Level Jobs. A boom in non-tenure track jobs promises full pre-unemployment for new Ph.D.s in German Studies. With the appearance today of an ad for a full-time adjunct instructor at the College of Charleston. In the MLA job information list. Which includes several jobs not advertised in the JIL. How the job market really works. We are...
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das Zugunglück: October 2014
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Notes on the history and present state of the train wreck known as German Studies and the academic job market. Friday, October 17, 2014. Slow years and job predictions: a graduate seminar in advanced straw-clutching. Today is the sixth week of the 2014-15 job market in German Studies. Some new jobs have appeared. Based on the new data, should I revise the number of jobs to be expected? Maybe it's a slow year and lots more jobs are on the way! Which one is more accurate? How the job market really works.
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das Zugunglück: How the job market in German really works. Part four: Who gets hired?
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Notes on the history and present state of the train wreck known as German Studies and the academic job market. Friday, March 14, 2014. How the job market in German really works. Part four: Who gets hired? This is lightly updated from what I posted at pan kisses kafka. Obviously—you think—you should apply to programs with a good track record of placing their graduates into tenure-track jobs. First question: Do you have a trust fund or savings in the seven figures? It’s not enough that a department c...
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das Zugunglück: How the job market in German really works. Part three (b): VAP Purgatory
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Notes on the history and present state of the train wreck known as German Studies and the academic job market. Tuesday, April 1, 2014. How the job market in German really works. Part three (b): VAP Purgatory. Within the next few weeks, the streams will cross—for the fourth time in the last five years, the number of non-tenure-track jobs in German advertised in the MLA Job Information List. Will surpass the number of tenure-track jobs. The number of non-TT jobs on the wiki. How the job market really works.
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das Zugunglück: How to shrink the Ph.D. in German Studies. Part two
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Notes on the history and present state of the train wreck known as German Studies and the academic job market. Thursday, September 4, 2014. How to shrink the Ph.D. in German Studies. Part two. Of this post identified our target—41.3 Ph.D.s in German per year, less than half of the current number—and the reasons for making this our goal. This post will lay out one way to get there. The programs that don’t have to change a thing. The dirty work’s already done. Close the programs that are too small. Other p...
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das Zugunglück: September 2014
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Notes on the history and present state of the train wreck known as German Studies and the academic job market. Friday, September 12, 2014. The jobpocalypse of 2014. On the opening day of the 2014-15 MLA/ADFL job information list for German, there were a total of nine ads for tenure-track (9) or open-rank (0) jobs. This is a new record for the least number of TT jobs advertised on opening day, beating out such lackluster years as 2009 (11), 2010 (11), 2013 (14), and 2012 (15). From 2006-2013, an average o...
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das Zugunglück: The job market crash in one chart
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Notes on the history and present state of the train wreck known as German Studies and the academic job market. Friday, March 6, 2015. The job market crash in one chart. Over at Vitae, Brock Read has an article. Summarizing a recent report. By the American Academy of Arts and Sciences that investigates the evidence that the academic job market in the humanities got worse in 2008. (You've got to love the AAAS headline: "Danger Signs for the Academic Job Market in Humanities? I've looked closely at the data...
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das Zugunglück: February 2015
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Notes on the history and present state of the train wreck known as German Studies and the academic job market. Friday, February 13, 2015. Personalia update 2014 I: tenure books. With the release of the Winter 2014 issue of Monatshefte. It's time for the annual updates and fact-checking. This first installment will look at tenure books, where not much has changed since last year's comprehensive look. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). How the job market in German really works. Part 3(b): VAP Purgatory. MLA membe...
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das Zugunglück: Tenure books in German Studies, 2009-2013
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Notes on the history and present state of the train wreck known as German Studies and the academic job market. Monday, April 21, 2014. Tenure books in German Studies, 2009-2013. Presses are not all the same, however. Many university presses. Don’t publish books in German Studies. Of those who do, their reputations range from gold-plated to radioactive. Then there are the German academic presses, and a few presses whose role in German Studies is unlike their role in any other field. Any book will do.
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das Zugunglück: 2014-15 a Record-Breaking Year for Exit-Level Jobs
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Notes on the history and present state of the train wreck known as German Studies and the academic job market. Friday, June 5, 2015. 2014-15 a Record-Breaking Year for Exit-Level Jobs. A boom in non-tenure track jobs promises full pre-unemployment for new Ph.D.s in German Studies. With the appearance today of an ad for a full-time adjunct instructor at the College of Charleston. In the MLA job information list. Which includes several jobs not advertised in the JIL. How the job market really works. We are...