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Job Placement Task Force

Charge: In consultation with the relevant standing committees, this task force is charged: 1) to review the full experience of the placement process for candidates and to recommend improvements in the Job Center and other aspects of the process; 2) to review current graduate program reporting on graduates and to create guidelines for best practices regarding public disclosure of placement records; 3) to create a list of recommendations for how graduate programs in religion can realign their curricula to respond to current (and future) job placement realities; and 4) to investigate how the AAR might best assist people being trained in religious studies to prepare for and find jobs outside of religion and theology departments, seminaries, and divinity schools.

Composition: Six members.

Terms of Office:  Five years.

Current Members:

  • Deanna A. Thompson (Chair)
  • Alice Hunt
  • Davina C. Lopez
  • Albert G. Miller
  • Wayne Proudfoot
  • Timothy M. Renick
  • Carey J. Gifford (Staff Liaison)

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