Some jobs still require individual submission of letters of recommendation, sometimes accompanied by absurd check-lists (the candidate is in “the top 1%” of…whatever). No doubt these are requirements imposed by university bureaucrats. Departments: tell your bureaucrats that this imposes a huge cost on faculty, and probably results in some letters never being submitted at all!
“given the actual number of career-worthy jobs (i.e. not per-course or adjunct positions)” The “id est” seems mistaken. Many tenure-track…




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