The number of applicants for the advertised positions varied greatly, ranging from 0 to 60. The position that attracted 60 applicants was for a mathematics education position in a mathematics department, and the majority of the applicants had Ph.D.’s in mathematics. Overall, the number of applicants for the announced positions typically ranged from 2 to 10. The number of applicants interviewed for a position was as high as 7, with a mode of 2 interviews on-site. Of the 134 positions available, 66, or 49 percent, were not filled. Table 2 reports the number of hires by
mathematics departments and by schools of education according to institutional type.