Will Teach for Food
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James Joyner | Thursday, June 18, 2009 |
Reacting to news that “more than 120″ professors at Tehran University have “collectively resigned in protest to the killings of students by suppressive forces,” Thoreau responds in a way quite familiar to many of us:
The important question for any postdoc (or any untenured professor at a school in a budget crisis, *cough*) is, with 120 faculty jobs empty, are they conducting searches? How many letters of reference will they want? To whom should application letters be addressed? I am…I mean, my friend is flexible on start-up package and salary.
Having once been among 500 applicants for jobs at places as far-flung as University of the Wittwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa and Black Hills State University in Spearfish, South Dakota, I feel his pain.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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