In our job-market discussion thread, Bill Vanderburgh (CSU San Bernardino) chimed in to clear up some confusion/misinformation about the search he is chairing at his institution:
We have barely begun evaluating candidates. The email that candidates received was automated. It is meant to indicate that they have advanced from "applied" to "under consideration". I didn't even realize the system would be sending those notices, or I would have tried to change the wording. The department has a meeting scheduled for mid-November to begin building our list for preliminary interviews by Zoom, and we hope to schedule those to take place in the second week of December.
Some job candidates in the thread appreciated, with one asking:
It would be great if other chairs or members of search committees would share similar timelines of their searches, which may as well be public but typically aren't, either in this thread or elsewhere. Is there a way you (Marcus Arvan) might facilitate this, for those search committee chairs or members who are able and willing to share such information?
I think this is a great idea, and so I hereby open this thread for any members of search committees who are able and willing to disclose their timeline (e.g. for reviewing applicants, holding first-round interviews, on-campus visits, etc.). My experience is that many committees need to give administrators rough timelines for all of the above anyway, so hopefully some search committees will be willing to weigh in!
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