The obsession with hiring critical social justice scholars can't honestly continue at the clip that it did this year. With the pacification of the masses from a Biden administration taking down the temperature will departments still feel the need to pander to the w0kester crowd in hiring next year, or are we still another year away?
Will the job market return to normal next year or will it still be a token fest?
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7a6d, your comment will get modded for the word w o r r y.
I agree. The main issues coming up are funding from COVID19 fallout. The major areas of hiring have been crim, health, and RCG for a long time. That�s probably not going to change for a while.That's fine. It's hard to deny that a significant portion of the job ads weren't explicitly targeting minority scholars this year in response to the BLM riots/Floyd m/u/r/d/e/r. The OP is questioning whether searches will still be leaned upon by admins to hire tokens instead of quality scholars?
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in my state, tax revenue is actually up slightly and so is projected enrollment for fall 2021
university admin has responded with wage and faculty hiring freezes and benefit cuts
This isn't the fault of critical scholars.....On this, I am relatively optimistic that the funding issue will gradually resolve year by year. The question is what changes do they make taking advantage of the crisis. I’m pushing back on us keeping online classes. But those will probably bring in $$$$
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7a6d, your comment will get modded for the word w o r r y.
I agree. The main issues coming up are funding from COVID19 fallout. The major areas of hiring have been crim, health, and RCG for a long time. That?s probably not going to change for a while.
That's fine. It's hard to deny that a significant portion of the job ads weren't explicitly targeting minority scholars this year in response to the BLM riots/Floyd m/u/r/d/e/r. The OP is questioning whether searches will still be leaned upon by admins to hire tokens instead of quality scholars?I am presuming that this is in reference to the “...encouraged to apply” language. The main issue with this take is that has been extremely common language for several years. One can certainly take issue with it, but it would be hard to make it a 2020-2021 thing.
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I'm just amused the field is stuck on hiring almost solely for race/crim when the literal fabric of government in this country is just burning away in real time. Nothing else big happening right now. Just race and the criminal justice system.
I would place different priorities in hiring specialties too. Unfortunately, it’s not always up to us. When I was at a private uni we could. But now, at a public R1, we are subject to topical areas specified in cluster hires across departments.
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I'm just amused the field is stuck on hiring almost solely for race/crim when the literal fabric of government in this country is just burning away in real time. Nothing else big happening right now. Just race and the criminal justice system.
I agree. we are marginalizing ourselves and selecting out of important topics.
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I'm just amused the field is stuck on hiring almost solely for race/crim when the literal fabric of government in this country is just burning away in real time. Nothing else big happening right now. Just race and the criminal justice system.
I agree. we are marginalizing ourselves and selecting out of important topics.Is anyone in soc doing good work on these topics?
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if there is are protests about something else, sociology programs will fall over themselves to hire people in whatever area is closest to whatever the protest was about. gender was big a few years ago bc of metoo and that hiring fad has since largely evaporaated.