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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
I don't doubt there is some degree of truth to this story, but I'm skeptical of a lot of the straight lines that get drawn like this. Did the Dean tell you this themself? Or did this come through the grapevine?
What happened to the over-qualified candidate? There just seem to be an awful lot of other possible reasons why that might not have worked out...
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No #### I heard it through the grapevine, you think a lowly session instructor gets to know any of this. I learned it in conversation with my friend who was on the hiring committee and another friend who has spoken to similar pressure in their own university.
The candidate is likely doing what most PhD Historians are doing, jumping from research contract to research contract, working as a sessional instructor and part time somewhere else, hoping their post doc funding doesnt run out, moving to butt #### nowhere because its the only open position in the continent, or hoping that they can marry someone with a position already so that they can be a spousal hire. lol
Anyways, you shouldn't read to much into this or anything you hear from strangers on the internet, I just thought it was interesting in light of the topic at hand.