- This is a list of posts from this site designed to advise and inform those who are applying for positions at teaching-centered institutions.
- What kind of faculty job do you want?
- Teaching universities as the farm league (if you’re thinking of taking a job at an institution mostly with the hope or thought of leaving for somewhere else later on)
- It’s not easier, just different (also on the same topic, Teaching is for people who have imposter syndrome?)
- How to figure out if you want to work at a teaching university (be sure to read the comments)
- The cover letter
- The research statement
- The teaching philosophy (which is different than a teaching statement)
- Letters of recommendation: teaching observations
- Identifying opportunities for serious researchInterpreting research culture during an interview (does a particular campus really support faculty research?)
- Startup (what things you might ask for)
- What it takes to get tenure: ambiguity of the teaching criterion
- On the ethics of juggling job offers
- Over on Dynamic Ecology: A big summary of how the search process works
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This is great information and I need your support. I am starting over and any advice or assistance you can provide would be helpful.
Thanks so much.