Universities can indeed be very peculiar about actually communicating with job candidates. A scant week ago, I received a letter from a major state university sorrowfully informing me that the search for which I applied had been closed for institutional reasons (read as: “budget shortfall”). Nice of them to keep me in you loop, you might think — but this was a position for academic year 2007-2008 which I applied for, and this is the first communication I’ve received from them since my application submission in December 2006 (and, on a related note, if they didn’t have an AY2007-2008 position filled by April ’07, it was just one of those not-happening things, so why the 7 months of limbo?).
Good luck on the market. Job-hunting is definitely no fun at all.
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