Abstract
AbstractEvery year for three years (2016–2018), I tried to identify every single person hired as a tenure‐track professor in ecology or an allied field (e.g., fish and wildlife) in the United States and Canada by consulting public sources. I identified a total of 566 hires. I also used public sources to compile data on the new hires and the institutions that hired them (e.g., number of publications, teaching experience, hiring institution Carnegie class). These data address some widespread anxieties and misunderstandings about the ecology faculty job market and also speak to gender diversity in recent ecology faculty hiring. They complement, and in some cases improve on, other sources of information, such as anecdotal personal experiences.
Highlights
Academia is among the common career paths for Ph.D.-holding ecologists in North
That because academia was traditionally seen as the “default” career path for ecology Ph.D.s, good information about that career path is widely and available
Good systemic information either doesn’t exist, or exists only for fields that are unlike ecology in important ways
Summary
America (Hampton and Labou 2017). Some additional fraction of Ph.D.-holding ecologists presumably seek a faculty position at some point. The competitiveness of the ecology faculty job market combined with the lack of good systemic information creates a fertile breeding ground for rumors and misplaced anxiety. Both ecology faculty job holders and job seekers care about diversity and equity in faculty hiring. Academic departments, and the colleges and universities comprised of them, are institutional wholes that are greater than the sum of their parts Those institutional wholes are best able to teach and inspire the full range of students who come through their doors, and best able to pursue new knowledge, if they’re comprised of diverse, Throughout, I restrict attention to North America. I provide systemic data on the available positions, hiring institutions, applicants, and new hires
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