User blog comment:Anglophilebg/Community Colleges discriminating against PhDs?/@comment-68.227.229.91-20110916154540

My experience suggests that CCs are more likely to hire from the inside, and the question of candidates with PhDs vs MAs is secondary. I interviewed at three CCs during the last job cycle [i'm a PhD with a lot of teaching experience, including CCs, and i tailored my application to reflect my awareness of the differences between CCs and R1s] and all three jobs went to inside candidates. One CC job that i'd applied for in my city, which posted an external job ad, didn't even consider external applications. Of course, there is a different dynamic with every search. But if you apply to a CC department in which the tenured faculty are MAs or have degrees in education rather than the subject field, a PhD is likely to be discriminated against. But if the department is heavy with PhDs is the subject field, I suspect one's chances are better. [Sept. 2011]