Higher Education Jobs and Careers

Job boards and career resources specific to higher education, covering faculty, administrative, and student-affairs positions. This directory was rebuilt from a 2000s-era listing in which roughly 40 percent of entries had gone dead: expired job boards, discontinued university career-center pages, and one entry whose domain had been resold to an unrelated tutoring service.

General Higher Education Job Boards

• Chronicle of Higher Education Career Network. Career listings from the Chronicle of Higher Education, the field’s leading trade publication.
• HigherEdJobs.com. One of the largest dedicated higher education job boards, covering faculty, administrative, and executive positions.
• H-Net Job Guide. Academic position announcements maintained by H-Net, the humanities and social sciences scholarly network.
• Academic Keys. Discipline-specific job listings and career resources for academic positions.
• Academic Employment Network (AcadEmploy). Listings for teaching and academic positions across institution types.
• UniversityJobs.com. Job board covering positions at colleges and universities.

Community Colleges and Sector-Specific Boards

• CCollegeJobs.com. Job board dedicated to community college faculty and staff positions.
• The Boston Consortium for Higher Education. Regional consortium of Boston-area colleges and universities sharing administrative resources, including job postings.

Student Affairs and Institutional Research

• NASPA JobsLink. Student affairs administration positions posted through NASPA, the field’s primary professional association.
• StudentAffairs.com Job and Resume Database. Listings for student affairs positions with an associated resume database.

Information Technology and Administration

• EDUCAUSE IT Job Opportunities. Information technology positions in higher education, posted through EDUCAUSE.

Postdoctoral Positions

• Postdoc.com. Database of postdoctoral research positions across disciplines.

Career Resources for Women in Higher Education

• American Association of University Women (AAUW). Fellowships and career-development funding for women in academia; the original listing here pointed to a specific grants page that no longer exists, so this links to the organization directly.
• Advancing Women. Career and leadership resources for women, including in academic settings.

Several dedicated leadership programs formerly listed here, including the Bryn Mawr Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education and a related program administered through Wellesley College’s Center for Women, appear to have been discontinued or relocated. No current, verifiable link could be confirmed for either, so they have been removed rather than pointed at a guess.

Job Search Advice

Most of the job-search advice pages in the original listing were individual faculty members’ personal course or advising pages, hosted on university subdomains from the late 1990s and early 2000s. Nearly all of them are gone. One general-purpose resource survives and remains directly relevant:

• Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). Widely used guidance on professional and job-search writing, including cover letters and application materials.