Math Education Job
Listings Web Sites
- AERA
SIG/RME Position Notices - maintained by the
AERA Special
Interest Group on Research on Mathematics Education
(look in the left-hand column for the link). Includes
mostly academic, some post-doctoral, and some other
listings.
- AERA Job
Listings. The general job list.
- AMS
Employment Information in the Mathematical
Sciences. Search using Subject Area "Math
Education".
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AMTE Jobs. Maintained by the Association of Mathematics Teacher
Education. Mostly academic, some post-doctoral,
some other listings.
- Chronicle of Higher
Education Jobs Listings (updated/changed
DAILY). The listings are now free for all!
- MAA Employment
Opportunities in the Mathematical Sciences.
Maintained by the Mathematical Association of
America.
- MathJobs.org -
This database is meant to facilitate the online job
application process in the mathematical community. It's
been developed in cooperation with the American
Mathematical Society, sponsored by the Mathematics
Department of Duke University. Mostly mathematics (some
math. ed.), mostly academic, some industrial/private
sector listings.
- NARST
Science Education Positions (oops, link dead as
of 11-29-04; can't find a newer one, sorry!). Run by
the National Association for
Research in Science Teaching. Mainly science
education jobs.
- NCTM Online
Classifieds Online. Maintained by the National
Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
- HigherEdJobs.com.
Free (as of 1/24/02) site with lots of higher education
job listings, including some mathematics.
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Math Forum's Job Links.
- *NEW* AACE Jobs Site. The Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, an international, educational organization reaching 75,000 professionals in Information Technology in Education and E-Learning, has launched a new Career Center to assist job seekers and employers in these fields.
- Academic Careers Online. I got a note suggesting I add this. I don't have any personal experience with this site... Official Description: Global academic job site to search jobs in education and academia. Find full and part-time teaching and administrative jobs at colleges, universities, and research institutes around the world. Applicants can for free search current job openings, submit their resume and receive e-mails informing them when matching job opportunities are listed.
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General Advice on the
Job Search Process
- Academia Interview
Prep Resource, collected by Julia Aguirre. The
unofficial collective wisdom of the EMST program at U.C.
Berkeley.
- AMS
Employment Services. Links to excellent advice
articles. Geared towards Math Ph.D.'s but useful in
general. Note in particular Tom Rishel's The
Academic Job Search in Mathematics.
- PhDs.org Science,
Math, and Engineering Career Resources.
Impressive array of resources and essays for
PhDs.
- U.C.
Berkeley Ph.D. Career Center. Links to articles
on CVs, teaching portfolios, job finding, interviewing,
etc.
- Mary Corbin Sies's Academic Job Resources. A
Professor in American Studies offers: (1) an Academic
Job Application Checklist; (2) Academic
Job Interview Advice and (3) Academic
Job Interview Questions.
- *updated*
U.S. News College Search. No particular
endorsement of their college rankings, but this search
engine is very handy for finding basic information and
websites of colleges, particularly if you are looking in
a certain geographic area.
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LANDING AN ACADEMIC JOB: The process and the
pitfalls. Fantastic article by Jonathan A.
Dantzig at UIUC. His area is engineering, but the advice
is very applicable to math ed, particularly applying to
math departments.
- Networking
on the Network Phil Agre's interesting and
forthright paper on networking. Not math ed specific, but
very interesting anyway.
- Chronicle
of Higher Education Job Search Book
Recommendations. Particularly recommended:
Heiberger and Vick, along with Ms. Mentor.
- The Compleat Academic : A Practical Guide for the
Beginning Social Scientist, by Mark P. Zanna, John M.
Darley (Editor) . Book suggested by Alan
Schoenfeld.
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Personal
Recollections
-
Tips for a Massive Two-Body Academic Job Search,
by Ellen Spertus. Outstanding, engaging essay. I wish I
read it when I was on the market! She is doing a two-body
search in Computer Science. Your mileage may vary.
- Ed
Aboufadel's Diaries. Interesting series of
diaries written first on the Job Search, Tenure-Track
life and being on a Search Committee.
- The
Tenure Chase Papers. Dana Mackenzie's fascinating
but depressing look into the world of fighting for
tenure.
- Notes on the
2000-2001 Job Search, by Eric Hsu. My own notes
from my (successful) 2000-2001 job search. I was
specifically looking for a job in a math department. Your
mileage may vary.
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