January 29, 2009 12:50 PM

On the other side...
Posted by Jesse Nunesat 12:50 PM

The news covering all things employment has been nothing but doom and gloom lately, so it's important sometimes to highlight those areas that aren't so, well, doomy and gloomy.

An article in Today's Globe shows that it is not such a bad time to be a recent grad with a Ph.D. who is looking to get into academia. From the story:

Amid the gloom of hiring freezes across much of academia, some New England colleges are seizing on the opportunity to scoop up the brightest newly minted PhDs to bolster their faculty ranks and gain ground on their competition.

A few are recruiting tenure-track faculty in droves even as the majority of colleges, most notably Harvard, have curtailed faculty searches as part of belt-tightening measures. Northeastern is conducting a search for 46 professors in fields ranging from nanotechnology to public health. Tufts is moving forward with 52 faculty searches. Others, including Emerson, Holy Cross, and Amherst, have created teaching positions.

However, the story notes that competition for these open positions is very stiff. Click here to read the whole story.