Social Work 2014-2015

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This section may become more useful later on in the search year, but some possible sections are below. Please feel free to add or remove topics.

How many people are updating or monitoring this page?

 * 38 (10/9/2014)

How many places did you apply? How many preliminary interviews? How many job talks/campus visits? How many offers?

 * Format: Number applied; number of preliminary interviews; number of job talks; number of offers (e.g., 10; 5; 2; 1)

What are the salaries being offered for the 2014-2015 search year? Please also include information about how this compares to cost of living:

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​This link provides mean faculty salaries for full professors, associate professors, assistant professors, and instructors at universities throughout the country. The data are aggregated (but searchable!), so it's not possible to identify mean social work salaries at non-public institutions. However, it may be helpful to people who are negotiating at non-public universities that are not required to report individual faculty salaries publically.

Arizona State University

 * Downtown Phoenix - 3 positions - 1 Assistant, 2 Associate / Full (per ASU website)
 * Tucson - 2 positions - 1 Assistant, 1 open rank (per ASU website)

Augsburg in MN

 * 2 positions total (9/29/14)
 * Assistant Professor position #1: Preferred candidates will have experience and expertise to teach in the MSW Multicultural Clinical Practice concentration. Successful candidates will have demonstrated competence and experience in clinical social work practice.
 * Assistant Professor position #2:Preferred candidates will have experience and expertise to teach advanced and generalist social work curriculum. Successful candidates will have demonstrated competence and experience in the following but not limited to: community and organizational practice, policy and social work research methods.
 * http://joblink.socialworkers.org/jobs/6505599?utm_source=BoxwoodIndeed&utm_medium=Indeed&utm_campaign=Boxwood%2BIndeed%2BFeed
 * informational interview invitation 10/8 by email

Bennett College (NC)

 * Hiring full-time Asst. Prof. (per HigherEdJobs.com, 06/20/14)

Binghamton University, SUNY

 * CSWE Interview (X4)

Boise State University

 * Looking for candidates for multiple (unspecified number) tenure-track assistant or associate professor positions (8/18/14, per CSWE website).
 * contacted for CSWE interview 9/23/14 (x3) 10/9/14 (x1)

Boston College

 * Looking for a tenure-track assistant professor in the area of children, youth, and families (per SSWR and CSWE websites, 6/26/14).
 * Specifically interested in candidates with a children, youth, and families focus on focus on trauma, gender-based violence and sexual violence:LINK
 * Also advertising Open Rank position focused on "environmental justice and social inequality" (HigherEdJobs.com 6/29/14)
 * Received request for a CSWE interview (10/1/14)(x2)
 * Is this for the children, youth, and families position or the "environmental justice and social inequality" position? This is for the Gender-Based Violence and Trauma position (updated 10/3/14)
 * When did you submit your application? I applied in August (updated 10/3/14)
 * To the 2nd person receiving an interview, did you also submit before the 9/15 screening date?

California State University East Bay

 * Submitted application on 9/22; was contacted the next day asking for letters of rec (which were not requested as part of the original application) (10/3/2014)

California State University, Northridge

 * Hiring Tenure-Track Assistant Professor (posted 10/1/2014 on CSWE website; application review started October 3)
 * applied October 2; received an email to schedule a telephone interview on 10/7 (requested that phone interview take place within two days of being contacted) (10/8/2014)
 * Contacted for a phone interview on 10/7

Colorado State University

 * Hiring two or three open-rank, tenure-track faculty members. Looking for applicants in the areas of behavioral health, healthy aging, child welfare, and/or health and wel-being (7/17/14, per Chronicle website).

Eastern Michigan University

 * Looking for multiple tenure-track assistant professors. Interest area is unspecified, but the job ad does note that they're specifically looking for people with 5 or more years of full-time, post-MSW social work practice experience (8/11/14, per CSWE website).

Florida Atlantic

 * CSWE interview scheduled 10/2/2014 (x2)

Florida International University

 * Received invitation for CSWE informational session (9/28/14)

Grand Valley State University - Michigan

 * Hiring full-time Assistant Professor (per CSWE, 9-29-14)
 * Looking for demonstrated knowledge and interest in direct practice, specifically mental health, families and children, and cultural competence.

Idaho State University

 * Hiring 9 Month Full-Time Asst. Professor (per HigherEdJobs.com, 06/20/14)

Lewis-Clark State College

 * Looking for a tenure-track assistant professor (per CSWE website 6/16/14)
 * States that salary is $46,000 and duties include teaching 24 credits/year, both in class and online; student advising; institutional service; professional development; and assisting with CSWE re-accreditation.

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

 * Look for 2-3 job postings this year
 * Received CSWE meeting request via email (10/9/14 x2)

Ohio State University

 * Hiring two assistant professors and one senior associate/full professor (6/4/14 per SSWR and CSW website).
 * Looking for candidates in the areas of aging, developmental disabilities, health/health disparities, and substance use.
 * Scheduling CSWE interviews via email (9/26 x3)
 * Received rejection letter via mail (10/7 x3)
 * Received a letter via email that they received my application materials (10/9)

Ohio University

 * Hiring for two positions: an assistant professor and an open-rank professor who will serve as coordinator for social work programs for Fall 2015 (6/12/14 per SSWR and CSWE websites).
 * For assistant professor (not coordinator) position: "Teaching and research interests should be related to a variety of social work issues, including but not limited to, substance abuse, veterans issues, rural issues, mental health, aging issues and/or child welfare."
 * Seems like the open-rank program coordinator position would be more for a non-junior person; the ad says that they're looking for someone in this position with a macro focus.

Portland State University

 * I was told there is very likely going to be a position open for the 2015 year via personal communication with someone who is adjuncting there (9-17-14)

Rutgers

 * Hiring for an Associate Dean for Research AND 3-5 open-rank, tenure-track faculty members (7/29/14, per Chronicle website).
 * Received invitation for preliminary interview at CSWE (10/7/14)
 * Were you contacted by email or phone? When did you apply?
 * Received an email invitation for preliminary interview for the assistant professor position at CSWE (10/9/14 x1).
 * Applied 9/25.

Seattle University

 * Hiring tenure track assistant or associate professor position
 * Looking for someone with specialization in macro and policy practice as well as social justice
 * Private, urban, liberal arts, Jesuit university
 * Review starts 10/15, Interviewing at CSWE APM

Smith College

 * Hiring two open-rank faculty members to teach in the HBSE or Research sequences (9/26/14, per Chronicle website).
 * Received a CSWE interview invite via email (10/3/14 x1).
 * Only applied a few days previous to receiving the interview invite.

St. Olaf College

 * Hiring at the assistant or associate level.  Must have MSW plus 2 years.  Will consider ABD.

Temple

 * Received preliminary interview request via email (for phone/video interview X2) (10/7/14)

Tulane University

 * Hiring one open-rank tenure track or tenured professor (6/4/14 per SSWR website).
 * Interested in applicants with backgrounds and expertise in vulnerable children and families.
 * Anecdotally heard they are skype interviewing w/o 9/3 (9/4/14)
 * Via email, heard that they invited 4 candidates for campus visits (9/30/14 x2)

University of Alabama at Birmingham

 * Looking for an assistant professor AND an open-rank professor "who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through their research, teaching, and service"  (7/31/14 per CSWE website).
 * contacted by email to schedule CSWE interview (1 hour long) (10/8/14 x2)

University of Arkansas, Fayetteville

 * Received invitation for informational meeting at CSWE via email (9/30/14, x2)

University at Albany

 * Received email request for CSWE interview 10-10-14

University at Buffalo

 * Looking for an endowed chair (interest areas open), an assistant professor (interest areas open), and an open-rank faculty member in veteran and/or military family research (8/18/14, per Chronicle website).

University of California, Los Angeles

 * Hiring an assistant professor in the areas of: social change, interventions, and organizations; global/international social welfare and social work; health; or mental health (8/20/14, per SSWR job board).
 * the add on their website states they are looking for an early career scholar - from new grad to a senior assistant professor as of 9/23
 * Received email for CSWE interview 10-9-14

University of Chicago

 * Hiring for faculty positions at the assistant, associate, or full professor ranks. Looking for candidates with research programs in the following areas: (1) scholars with an international perspective whose scholarship focuses on global processes and issues; (2) scholars whose research focuses on human service, health, and/or community-based organizations; and (3) scholars whose research focuses on clinical practice, with emphasis on school social work, SMI, trauma, or gerontology (8/1/14, per Chronicle website).
 * Rejection letter (9/26/14 x2).
 * Aside from some rejections letters being out, does anybody have an update? I applied and received no rejection letter or email thus far (10/5/2014 x2).
 * Any info on how this search is going? Haven't heard anything either way (10/7/2014).
 * I got an e-mail on 10/6  saying applications were being reviewed. They asked that I submit  2-4 1st authored writing samples. They said they would be in touch soon.

University of Denver

 * Hiring two assistant professors and one assistant or associate professor.
 * Looking for people with experience in teaching and research in one of more areas: community practice; mental health; family systems interventions; health; global practice; the human-animal bond & animal assisted social work (8/14/15, per Chronicle website and blast GADE email).
 * CSWE interview request 10-1-14 (x3) and 10/9/14 (x1)
 * Are these requests coming in via email or phone?
 * Phone AND a follow-up email.


 * Received rejection letter by email (10/2/14) (x4) (10/9/14) (x5)
 * I heard from a personal communication they are not looking for a children or families focus.

University of Houston

 * Looking for a new dean of the Graduate College of Social Work (per CSWE and Chronicle websites, 6/12/14).
 * Also hiring 3 full-time tenure track faculty (posted 9/9 in CSWE)
 * Received interview invitation for CSWE via email (9/29 x3)

University of Illinois at Chicago

 * Looking for an open-rank multiple faculty members (did not specify how many) with interests in the promotion of social, racial, and economic justice for inner city residents and urban communities (8/15/14, per Chronicle website).

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 * Multiple positions advertised: associate or full professor, open-rank, MSW program director, and associate dean for academic affairs (per CSWE website 9/15/14)

University of Kansas

 * Hiring a new Dean AND two assistant professors in the broadly defined areas of aging/health, adult/child mental health, child welfare/child well-being, and poverty/economic inequality (8/4/15 per CSWE website).
 * Starting to schedule interviews at CSWE (anectodal, 9/10)
 * Scheduled CSWE interview via phone call (9/15/14, x3)

University of Kentucky

 * Scheduled CSWE interview via doodle(10/8/14, x1)

University of Louisville

 * Looking for an assistant professor in social work practice and/or mental health (7/24/14 per CSWE website).
 * Received interview invitation for CSWE via email (10/1) x2
 * Rejection letter by email 10/8 (x1)

University of Maryland Baltimore

 * Word on the street (from personal communication) is that they're not hiring at the assistant level this year (8/19/14).
 * The job posting advertises for multiple positions at any level (including assistant), is your understanding that only Associate/Full Profs will be seriously looked at? (10/3/14) I was told in August by a senior faculty member that they didn't think they'd be advertising positions at the assistant level this year.  They may have changed their mind, or they may have advertised for open-rank with the intention of only hiring tenured folks unless someone really great at the assistant level came along...I'm just not sure (10/6/14)

University of Michigan

 * Job posting and information can be found at http://ssw.umich.edu/about/faculty-openings/list (9/13/14)
 * Six faculty job openings for 2015-2016 (per email from the Dean, 8/1/14). These include:
 * The Marion Elizabeth Blue Professor of Children and Families
 * The Harold R. Johnson Professor of Social Work (with an emphasis on Gerontology and Health)
 * Two open-rank faculty positions with priority given to candidates whose work emphasizes one or more of the following five areas: child well-being, non-profit and public management, gerontology, health and health service delivery, and criminal justice.
 * Two clinical faculty positions with priority given to candidates whose work is aligned with one of more of the following five areas: child well-being, non-profit and public management, gerontology, health and health service delivery, and criminal justice.
 * Deadline December 31, 2014
 * Received request for CSWE interview via email (9/25/2014 & 10/7/2014X3)
 * Received request for interview via email (10/9/2014)

University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

 * Not hiring at the Assistant Professor level this year

University of Minnesota - Duluth

 * Hiring Assistant Professor level (9/29/14)
 * Looking for expertise in one or more of the following areas of practice: clinical social work, advanced community practice, child welfare, social work with diverse populations, research, human behavior in the social environment, field and global issues
 * Must have a valid Minnesota social work license or verification of eligibility for licensure by the Minnesota Board of Social Work
 * https://employment.umn.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp

University of Missouri

 * Looking for 2 open-rank tenure track professors (someone who can teach with an emphasis on evidence-based practice and service delivery) at the School of Social Work (per CSWE and SSWR websites, 6/18/14)
 * Looking for applicants in the areas of aging, veterans/military families, substance abuse, mental health, health disparities, and child welfare service delivery.
 * Heard through colleague they are beginning Skype interviews week of 9/2
 * Campus interview scheduled week before CSWE (x1)
 * scheduled CSWE interview via email (9/30 x2)

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

 * Received phone call invitation to interview at CSWE (15 minutes) (10/8/14 x1; 10/10/2014 x1)

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 * Per CSWE and SSWR websites, hiring for one position at the Assistant or Associate level.
 * Contacted via e-mail to schedule informational interview at CSWE (10/10/14 x1)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 * Word on the street is that they're hiring for three positions; one in macro practice and the other two open interest area. No word on whether these are at the assistant professor level or are open-rank (8/19/14, per personal communication).
 * 2 are for Assistant/Associate Tenture Track (multiple areas of expertise), 1 is for an Assistant/Associate (macro practice), 1 is for Associate/Full Professor (research design and methods), 1 is a research associate or full fixed term faculty member (research design and methods) (9/26/2014, per university communication)
 * Receieved an invite for an informational meeting at CSWE via email (10/8/14 x5, 10/9/14 x1).

University of Oklahoma

 * Hiring one TT line
 * http://socialwork.ou.edu/Websites/socialwork/images/positions/2014_Norman_Position.pdf
 * Received a CSWE interview invitation via phone call on 10/6/14 (x1)

University of Oklahoma (Tulsa Campus)

 * Hiring one TT line
 * http://socialwork.ou.edu/Websites/socialwork/images/positions/2014_Tulsa_Position.pdf

University of Southern Indiana

 * Scheduled informational interview at CSWE (10/6/14 x1)

University of Toronto

 * They are hiring four tenure track appointment positions for Assistant and Associate rank. The areas they are looking for include but aren't limited to: child welfare, mental health, human development and equity across the life course (children, families, and older adults), neuroscience and education for professional practice.
 * Rejection over email (10/10) x3

University of Utah

 * Hiring a new Dean for the College of Social Work, with a preferred start date of January 1, 2015 (per CSWE and SSWR websites, 6/26/14)

University of Washington (Tacoma)

 * Hiring Assistant Professor and Full-Time Lecturer or Senior Lecturer positions


 * Will be interviewing / informational interviewing at CSWE

University of Wisconsin-Madison

 * Hiring an assistant professor in "any area of specialization relevant to social work" (9/16/14, per School email, and 9/27/14 per SSWR and CSWE websites).
 * Confirmation email sent after application materials were submitted said that they would begin reviewing applications after 11/15, so I don't know if they'll be interviewing at CSWE...does anyone have any other info on this? (9/25/14)
 * E-mail from chair says they won't be doing formal interviews at CSWE. They'll be doing skype interviews after 11/15, and will most likely be finished by the time SSWR rolls around. (10/8/14)

Virginia Commonwealth

 * Hiring for an open rank faculty position (per VCU's hiring website, 07/10/14, and Chronicle and CSWE websites, 7/14/14), concentration seems open, although the ad mentions "candidates who contribute to our growing interdisciplinary research foci in child welfare, health, mental health, gerontology, practice and policy affecting members of the military and their families, and disparities among racial and ethnic minority populations" and makes specific reference to collaboration with the "Virginia Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities, Massey Cancer Center, and Center for Clinical and Translational Research."
 * Also hiring for the Samuel S. Wurtzel Endowed Faculty Chair in Social Work AND a non-tenure track teaching position (per VCU and Chronicle websites, 7/14/14).

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Contacted by email on 10/10 to schedule CSWE Interview

West Virginia University

 * Look for one assistant professor position, possibly interviewing at CSWE (9/13/14)
 * contacted by email on 10/8 to schedule CSWE interview (10/8/2014 X3)

Western Michigan University

 * Assistant/Associate Professor for macro practice (9/26/2014)

Wheelock College

 * Hiring Open Rank TT Position (9/23)