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Today or tomorrow is the end of the 2019-2020 market year. At the top of the last decade, in 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 there were back to back years of 300+ listings: 318 in 2013-2014 and 2014-2015. /1
Today or tomorrow is the end of the 2019-2020 market year. At the top of the last decade, in 2013-2014 and 2014-2015 there were back to back years of 300+ listings: 318 in 2013-2014 and 2014-2015. /1
These years likely include rebound numbers from the fallout of 2008-2019. The last two seasons have been the lowest in the last decade, with 220 listings for 2018-2019. /2
Based on the market numbers up until January 2020, I estimated there'd be around 226 listings this year, a slight improvement over last year. Due to COVID-19, the YTD total is 203 and that figure, similar to 2008-2009, does not include frozen searches or positions cancelled /3
...after the initial job listing expires. This year, 25% of listings on rhetmap were directly placed there by the institutions. The other 75% were scraped from the revised and less accessible JIL. /4
Listings after January 1, which have typically risen year after year from 26% to closer to 30%, dropped to 23% of the total year to date market. What does this mean? /5
We have a steadily contracting market over the last decade and the immediate prospects for the next two years without a significant reinvestment in higher ed do not indicate a change of course. /6
For graduate programs, it’s time to have a frank discussion about the viability of your programs moving forward. Are you as a program engaging in honest recruiting practices that are transparent given the challenges ahead? /7
Are you as a program able to adequately mentor, support, resource, and place doctoral students? The field has over 90 doctoral programs of various sizes - https://ccccdoctoralconsortium.org/ /8
Some of these programs will need to contract, fold, and refocus their support if these trends continue, and new programs may rise that have access to the institutional resources to do the above. /9
I don’t have any easy answers here, but these are conversations that will need to happen. /10
