(by the SCS Office)
Placement Service Changes
Based on feedback from Placement subscribers and suggestions from the Career Planning and Development Committee, we will be instituting some minor changes to the Placement Service when we take it down for yearly maintenance this Summer:
- Updating the "Advice for Candidates" page to include information about diversity statements in applications, course syllabi, and Digital Humanities credentials
- Add the ability to sort job ads by desired research focus
- Remove the requirement to fill out demographic information in order to fill out availability calendar for the annual meeting
- Minor graphical fix: sort interview schedule for Institutions chronologically by interview time rather than by the order in which the interview was scheduled
If you have any further recommendations please feel free to send them to Erik Shell (erik.shell@nyu.edu).
GDPR Update
This spring, SCS, along with other organizations that have members or customers in the EU, has striven to become compliant with the EU’s new GDPR legislation, which is designed to give individuals more control over their personal data. At first, GDPR seemed onerous and confusing to many organizations. However, we have used GDPR as an opportunity to consider how we are collecting and using member and website user data and to make improvements to our policies and procedures. For example, both our website and Google Analytics, the service that we use to understand how people are using our website, collect IP addresses that can be used to identify individual users. IP addresses are useful, for a limited time, if we are trying to block an attack by a hacker. However, we are now deleting all IP addresses from our website and Google Analytics service after 24 hours. Under normal circumstances, there is no reason for us to keep these data for any longer than that.
GDPR came into effect on May 25. What do you need to do?
- Our membership database is managed by Johns Hopkins University Press. The Press maintains an online member directory that this is visible only to members, not to the public. However, we recommend that all members log into the Johns Hopkins member management site in order to review their privacy settings. You are able to determine what information about you is available to other SCS members.
If you have any difficulties, please contact jrnlcirc@press.jhu.edu
From now on, the default setting for new members in the Membership Directory will be "do not display any of my information in the membership directory". Existing members should review their profile information and set their preferred options.
Please note that neither SCS nor John Hopkins sell members' personal information to third parties.
- A subscription to the SCS email list scsmembers@mylist.net is a benefit of SCS membership. However, you may not want to be a member of this list, if you do not want to receive email from us.
To unsubscribe now from scsmembers@mylist.net click on the link below:
On Friday June 1, members in the EU only will be unsubscribed from our list and receive an invitation to resubscribe so that we can be sure that we have your explicit consent to be on our email list.
From now on, new SCS members will be invited to join the SCS email list rather than automatically subscribed to it.
You can read our new Omnibus Privacy policy here, and our updated website privacy policy here.
More May 2018 Newsletter Content
Check out the mid-year Placement Service Report
Participate in the SCS member survey on benefits
