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Originally Posted by DrPhil
For example, Research I institutions will not hire faculty who are not research focused. If you are primarily interested in teaching and connecting with students, you will be frowned upon at many Research I institutions.
This may not frighten people and make people feel discriminated against but the faculty who would qualify for most Research I employment across the country tend to be of a particular race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender; and religion and sexual orientation are also strongly linked at some schools. In other words, you have to mesh well with the purpose of the institution, mesh well with the faculty, mesh with the study body, and be able to do what needs to be done with little backtalk. This is not formally stated but it still is what it is.
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Yes, I totally understand that things other than qualifications come into play in the hiring process. It is very unfortunate. Many schools have policies attempting to combat these things, but it is an uphill battle, in practice. That said, at every R1 I can think of, if someone was told they were not hired because of their religion, they would run screaming to the EEOC.
Honestly, this campus clearly wouldn't have been a good fit for me, and it's good that I found that out early on. I just can't, for the life of me, figure out what my belief system has to do with my ability to adjunct lecture in an undergraduate math class.
(Thanks for the info about HBCUs. I find it very surprising.)