I am writing this from the DFW airport as I wait to catch a flight to a university in the south for a campus interview. I am not disclosing where I am heading right now b/c I will post this later and don't want everyone to know where I am interviewing. By the time you read this I will likely be back home.
The reason I am writing this now is to share a little bit about the interview process for faculty positions. From everything I know about the "real" world (i.e. business) the faculty search/interview process is very different. After sending a ton of information in with my application (teaching statements/research statements/teaching evaluations/letters of recommendation/VITA(academic resume)/ cover letter/transcripts), search committees typically want to do a phone interview. If they like you on the phone interview then they will bring you in for a campus interview. Rather than the campus interview lasting a couple of hours, it can last several days. So right now I am heading down for an afternoon with a lunch, tour, and dinner. Tomorrow I have a breakfast with faculty members, meeting with some faculty members, meetings with deans and a vice president, a teaching demonstration, and a research demonstration and then back on the plane to come home. And then back to campus the next day to teach and check on my data collection.
Yeah it is a long day and a half but hopefully it will end with a positive outcome. If you are lucky in the application process you end up with several of these campus visits so you are "jet setting" across the country. Which means that you have to have people to cover classes and things of that nature.
So I want to say thank you to everyone who has covered my classes and campus responsibilities while I have been out of town.
Hopefully this will all end with a good announcement and I will be able to tell everyone where Nici, Connor, and I will be moving in August
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