Finalist at Camden County College

I got the call yesterday. I am a finalist for the Camden County College position. I will meet with the president and the dean of faculty. I am one of the last three. I think my interview went well, I sent a thank you note with an addendum (future classes and scholarship) which i hope was well received.

next friday i will go down there, take the 3-4 hour drive and meet with the committee. it would be nice to get the job offer. i have told the st josephs people about this and a few other jobs that are out there.

camden has been very nice and it is a tenure track college job. its a 5-5 semester (probably with an overload) . the schedule is better, theres more money, theres more of a future in it. and its in a college with is what i have been striving towards for the last 10 years. i could make my own schedule, it would give me time to work on the Charles X archives. I could even apply for a fulbright. maybe to latvia, estonia or malta (do a paper on the Knights of Malta) or slovenia.

i think either way things work out.


beth told me about diane (who just finished and was ABD when I started grad school) who was able to negotiate a 3 (or was it a 2) class first semester to help her ease in. I think thats a really good idea and something i would like to discuss with the chair should i get hired. Instead of a 5 I would like to teach a 3 and then turn the time into various jobs:

find an apartment and move in.
finish the dissertation and other papers / articles.
get set up for conferences.
apply for some grants and maybe a fulbright to begin work on Charles X arkives
join college and department committees
revamp my classes so that they are fresh and new.
develop a class or two for consideration in the summer or next fall.

its not like I want to sit on my butt with only a 3 schedule (and in the spring I'd teach a full 5 and probably an overload or two). in the meantime I'd like to work on scholarship and other college related purposes. right now I'm spending the time on finishing the dissertation. It would be nice to have the time to convert from scholarship to teaching and really make a top flight up to date super class.