Still open, still unanswered
Kim Foster applied in May for a lecturer role at a local university. The all-day on-campus stage asked for two hour-long presentations: one defining the subject and how she would teach it, another mock class for a room of professors. She set aside her book research for ten days. Her last interview was on 3 June.
She was told the decision would be “quick.” She followed up on 13 July. By 6 August, the portal had not changed state. No decision. No form letter. No reply.
This is one candidate’s account of one lecturer recruitment process at an unnamed local university.
The portal kept the process live for Foster after the university stopped communicating: it had not changed state by 6 August, despite her 13 July follow-up. That open status followed an all-day on-campus process with two hour-long presentations, ten days taken from her book research, and a decision she had been told would be “quick.” Not even a form letter arrived.