DBA: ROI and motivation?

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I am not going to list every single college/university that is hiring. A person can find positions at the usual places:  https://jobs.chronicle.com/jobs/faculty-.../#browsing or https://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/ or a person can go to the actual college or university to apply.  NC has not had many colleges/universities close here but some are in trouble with accreditors due to financial footing. In fact one small liberal arts college, where I am on the board, was able to secure a 25 million loan to boost finances and received incentives from the town and county. It also helps that many private universities/colleges in NC are church backed so they can tap church assemblies for funding.

And if you look through many of the business department listings, you'll find that they're for open pool, visiting positions, non-tenure track, etc. Very few are actual full time permanent tenure track positions in the business departments. 

A $25 million loan doesn't mean much. I just watched 99 year old Cazenovia College fail to make payment on their $25 million loan and was forced to close down. This too was a private college. It was created by a church. It's now gone and the students were forced to transfer. They were informed of the closing during their December finals that the college was closing at the end of the spring semester. They're far from the only college who failed to repay a loan. Loans of this magnitude are extremely difficult to repay. They're just digging themselves a bigger hole.

I am not saying that a loan will keep a college/university afloat, but it does help some like the one I mentioned. The links I posted do list full time faculty positions, not all universities/college offer tenure but a person can still find a full time faculty position, if they look hard enough and market themselves.

A person has to start somewhere and not everyone lands their dream position on the first try in academia. A visiting professorship or instructorship can open doors and opportunities, I would not count those types of positions out.