The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List (curated by Andrew Spaeth and myself) has 3 research/teaching positions and 1 teaching position.
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On June 6, 2023, the 2024 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List had 6 research/teaching positions.
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Will the chemical engineering one be happening this year too? I think it kinda fell off hard in January this past cycle.
ReplyDeleteThe Chemical Engineering List is independent of this blog. It is publicized here only. - CJ
DeleteHere we go again... and to think I was just recovering from the let-down that was the 2024 cycle...
ReplyDeleteWe got this!
DeleteRemember to check faculty salary expectations against the AAUP salary survey (https://www.aaup.org/sites/default/files/AAUP_2023-24_FCS_preliminary_results_appendices_corrected.pdf)
ReplyDeleteI mean this sincerely: Thank you to whoever posted this!
DeleteMy industry job is fine, and I am happier than I've been in years!
Difficult to see how academia attracts the "best and the brightest" these days given the abysmal salary level, especially ones in HCOL areas. You pretty much need to come from a privileged background, have a wealthy spouse, or live poorly/not raise a family with dignity in order to justify the choice.
DeleteWhat, generally, have people heard about this upcoming cycle? I had heard there was a lot of general optimism about the cycles in Fall of 2022 and 2023 because COVID-era hiring freezes were ending. By comparison I haven't heard much of anything about this cycle.
ReplyDeleteCan you help me understand this list more? I can't seem to find a key for the headings in that PDF. The numbers you're posting here aren't all from the same column (e.g. St. Olaf and USC are from the "AI" column but Utah State is from the "LE" column) so I'm pretty confused where to look for myself.
ReplyDeleteCorrection: Utah State University $82.4k (Thank you, Anonymous June 27, 2024 at 1:38 PM!)
ReplyDeleteThank you, Anonymous June 27, 2024 at 1:38 PM. It is a little confusing the first time around! The main AAUP research website is https://www.aaup.org/our-work/research/FCS [noted on page 1 of the appendices pdf ]. The narrative report [https://www.aaup.org/file/ARES_2023-24.pdf] has a full list of the abbreviations. Here are some of the main abbreviations, including ranks:
ReplyDeleteNAME = name of institution (listed alphabetically by state)
NOTES = found on pdf pages 38-40 and 51 of the appendices pdf
CAT. = AAUP institutional categories
CTRL = institutional control (public, private, religious, etc.)
Ranks:
PR = full professor
AO = associate professor
AI = assistant professor
IN = instructor
LE = lecturer
And the list is across all colleges?
ReplyDeleteI got an assistant professor position a couple of years ago. For my institution (R1), the listed salary numbers are in the ballpark but a little low (I started >$15k higher than what's listed).
ReplyDeleteI believe it is averaged across all fields and pay in STEM fields will tend to be higher, occasionally a lot higher, than pay for faculty in the arts or humanities at some institutions (including mine), which may skew the listed numbers lower than what you'd be paid as a chem prof.
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@AnonymousJuly 3, 2024 at 7:22 PM
WHAT IS THE DATA COLLECTION METHOD FOR THE FACULTY COMPENSATION SURVEY?
Data for the Faculty Compensation Survey is collected directly from colleges and universities, usually from an administrative office. Data is reported in the aggregate for the institution, by faculty rank, and gender. Currently, the Faculty Compensation Survey does not collect individual-level salary data or data at the discipline level. Data includes full-time and part-time instructional and instructional/research/public service faculty, with the exception of clinical or basic science faculty, medical faculty in schools of medicine, and military faculty. Data is collected for the current academic year, as defined by your institution, with the exception of part-time faculty, for whom data is collected for the prior academic year. All data for full-time faculty is for a total annual academic year base salary unless otherwise noted.
(from https://research.aaup.org/faq)
Is anyone else having the problem that google docs says there is a problem with the spreadsheet and it cannot load? I have tried firefox and chrome, both on private browsing mode, and it wouldn't load in either.
ReplyDeleteYes, someone on BlueSky reported this as well. Can you describe the problem?
DeleteAlso, send me your email (chemjobber@gmail.com) and I can send you a downloaded attachment.
Just opened fine for me.
DeleteI have also been unable to open the google sheet for some time now. It gives an error message (copied below) that just keeps coming up if I try to reload. I have tried using firefox and safari and multiple computers (all macs, different IP addresses). I don't really need the attachment, I just like to follow the postings and don't know why google docs is all of a sudden not working for me with this file.
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When you see a post list "materials" as focus, should that generally be assumed to mean inorganic materials or are polymers/soft matter often under consideration too?
ReplyDeleteIf there is no explicit clarification in the full job posting, I think it would be reasonable to apply as someone working in polymers/soft materials. Looking at the Texas Tech post (for example), the position is listed as Materials/Energy, but it explicitly notes Inorganic Chemistry in their full listing.
DeleteIt's rumored that the Yale chemistry open search favors senior candidates.
ReplyDeleteAny idea what areas of chem will be given preference?
Deleteby "favors senior candidates", I assume this is code for they have a very specific senior hire that they wish to make?
DeleteSome places use this as code for you have to have external funding to be considered.
DeleteProbably pchem
DeleteCould be computchem, they just lost a big name
DeleteI haven't personally heard about senior candidates, but a faculty member here told me they are looking for a physical chemist (source: I'm a postdoc at Yale)
DeleteIt looks like Tori Barber updated the 2024 search status tracker document with a separate sheet for 2025. There's not much in the way of activity on it yet, though.
ReplyDeletehttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zZf5I43l4jXVUWsIUZVo7UeA9vrIszitGdkYA9XUBgY/edit?usp=sharing
FWIW I'm pretty sure she isn't updating it anymore (If you look at it in google drive, I've never seen "last edited by [Tori's email]"), but yes it is up.
Deletelooks like people are using it since it is editable
DeleteNew Mexico State University are not recommended, departmental leadership has created an environment that is toxic beyond description.
ReplyDeleteI was told the department is quite conservative
DeleteStarting pay is also abysmal, even by (generally abysmal) assistant prof. standards
DeleteThere is ongoing litigation against the chair - according to the complaint the chair is on record saying she would rather be at an institution with less Hispanics. Oh my, a racist as dept chair!
DeleteJust saw Utah State had an inorganic position come up. I suppose it bears mentioning that they had a professor (Tianbiao Liu) who was there when I interviewed last fall for the physical posting. He has since been removed from the website and has pending litigation (https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/53650241/Liu_v_Utah_State_University_et_al) against the University
ReplyDeleteWhoa any idea what this is about? Always enjoyed his papers
DeleteApparently in Utah you can't access any court filings electronically without paying, and I'm stingy so I do not have any idea. From that link it looks like it involves the Dept Chari, Provost, and Title IX coordinator, and it falls under a Civil Rights Act lawsuit. Probably some juicy details.
DeleteDid Utah State hire anyone for the computational position last year?
DeleteNobody is on their faculty page. I got ghosted and have checked periodically to see when new hires popped up. They put up the organic guy about a month and a half ago maybe?
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