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...English students Simpson says were “seriously” on the job market, seven received tenure-track positions at “really prestigious institutions,” and one received a fellowship at the Harvard Humanities Center. But two individuals were unsuccessful in their job searches...
History Department Chair Lizabeth Cohen says that graduate students in her department, too, did “incredibly well” this year, despite the tough job market. Many students were able to procure tenure-track jobs, postdoctoral fellowships, and short-term visiting lectureships, according to Cohen...
Some administrators, however, consider the College Fellow Program to be more than a mere economic solution to the hiring slowdown. For some, the initiative also provides former graduate students the rare opportunity to spend a year developing their teaching skills, thereby making them more competitive in the job market...
...We’re continuing to graduate outstanding Ph.D. students who would love to go on to an academic career, but the market is not very strong for them,” he says. “Should we just have them flipping burgers or should we have them here helping out on campus where we have actual needs...
According to William Pannapacker, a Harvard English graduate student in the 1990s and a contributor to The Chronicle of Higher Education, one year of success is not enough evidence to ignore the gravity of the “academic labor market...