Holiday's good wishes for all of you with extending some specific holiday wishes

Post date: Dec 20, 2018 8:38:53 PM

Holiday's good wishes for all of you.

With extending some specific holiday wishes:

1. To job candidates: plenty of jobs suiting your qualifications, in areas where you’re interested in living, at institutions that suit your aspirations and needs, whatever they may be. Search committees who respond promptly. Positive and collegial interviews. A good job at the end of it all.

2. To search committees: a candidate pool of sufficient size, breadth, and quality to bring you the hire you need. An administration and/or state government that follows through with the funding for your position. Candidates who work with you on scheduling interviews to make them work for everyone. Weather that doesn’t mess up the whole process. An acceptance from your first choice.

3. To graduate students: programs and mentors who understand the realities of the market and help you to prepare as well as possible to face them. An improving market that has more space for you when it’s time for you to apply. Opportunities to present, publish and teach that make you an attractive candidate for whatever kind of institution you aspire to join.

4. To adjunct faculty members: fair treatment. Institutional respect. Reasonable compensation. A genuine opportunity to compete for full-time positions at the institutions where you now teach, should that be your desire. An accurate assessment of your actual situation, so you can act with full information as you consider your career.

5. To private colleges and universities: a more favorable endowment environment to support your operations. Plenty of well-qualified students who actively seek to attend your institution. Good retention without a sacrifice of academic integrity. Success in your mission, however, you have defined it.

6. To public colleges and universities: state governments and governing boards that genuinely understand how difficult it is to build a great system, and how easy it is to ruin it. An electorate that prefers education to prisons. An improved economic climate that encourages budget relief.

7. To everyone: Goodwill, patience, a sense of humor, and a spirit of collaboration to help higher education get through its toughest period in memory, and a quick conclusion to that period. An excellent, fun, relaxing, renewing winter break!