It's March, the time of year in higher education when jobs are being lined up for the upcoming school year. If your a grad student, this is time when you look for a job...but not in Louisiana.
After a series of budget cuts to higher education, schools had to freeze open positions and some are not filling adjunct positions.
According to higheredjobs.com, an online job board for positions at colleges and universities, Louisiana has 55 positions open for faculty and staff. The school doing the most hiring is Nicholls State in Thibodaux.
Louisiana, however, has more jobs available than neighboring state Mississippi, which only has 26 listed. Arkansas has 67 jobs and Texas has 1,193, which has the highest number of job openings in the country.
Losing faculty to other states is a worry for some colleges. In a recent conversation with Paul Sisson, provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at LSUS, he feared that some faculty jump ship to other neighboring states who are hiring.
This worry comes at the heals of neighboring southern states like Texas that are making a bigger push in higher education setting aside dollars for research.
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