Thanks, Patty. The positions usually require quite a bit of a process to even get approved before advertising (so, once a year, the higher-ups decide if they'll give a department money for a new hire, and even then, sometimes the positions get yanked). If it was a matter of just checking in to say hey! I'd be great for your program!--then you could have a bit more control. But the department heads and deans themselves don't have autonomy to open a position--otherwise, we would have been permanent long ago. (We have had some very good people unsuccessfully go to bat for us to get a long term position in there.)
We've certainly gotten to see a lot of interesting place we never would have thought of this way! But it's getting time where we need to find something with long term sticking power. I hope it's sooner rather than later.
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Date: 2016-04-15 10:32 pm (UTC)We've certainly gotten to see a lot of interesting place we never would have thought of this way! But it's getting time where we need to find something with long term sticking power. I hope it's sooner rather than later.