Hiring

Dispute over economics job notices may point to larger battle over how colleges recruit diverse pools for faculty searches.

Christian college sues Pennsylvania for refusing to include jobs with religious requirements in state database.

Outlook for English positions holds steady, while in foreign languages, Spanish loses some of its dominance.

English and language professors consider how who they are affects their jobs -- and who gets hired for which positions.

MLA proposal to change how professors are hired and promoted draws generally strong support -- and some objections on details.

After criticism, association will allow colleges to indicate that they welcome applicants from specific underrepresented groups.

Arnita A. Jones almost gushed when she told historians about how many new Ph.D.'s she was chatting up at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association in Atlanta who were telling her, "I have four interviews tomorrow," or "I've got three interviews today."

An adjunct professor of landscape architecture at Harvard University who resigned Friday in a letter decrying the Graduate School of Design’s gender inequities -- including the landscape architecture department’s utter lack of a female tenure hire in its 106-year existence -- rescinded her resignation after the school’s dean and Harvard’s interim president, Derek C. Bok, convinced her to stay.

Conventional wisdom has it that private universities are better places to work than public universities. The pay can be significantly better and tight state budgets have forced many public institutions to minimize raises and enlarge classes.

University panel seeks a true track for promotion and -- in move that surprises observers -- endorses the idea of nurturing young faculty.