Follow up email if you have not heard back after tenure track facutly interview I had an academic job interview for a tenure-track faculty position in January but have not heard anything yet (March now).  Should I send an email asking for the status of the application? Can anyone please tell me what a proper email could be?

Thanks very much for the help.
Ideally, towards the end of your visit in January the search chair would have let you know the projected timeline. Unfortunately that doesn't always happen.

In any case, I don't think it's unreasonable to drop them a quick email to ask if there are any updates. Before you do, however, be aware that you are likely to get an evasive answer or a non-answer. There are three likely reasons that you haven't heard anything:


They don't want to hire you, but they forgot to tell you.
They have offered the job to someone else, but are keeping you around as a backup in case the first person turns them down. They may be currently negotiating with the first person.
They are still interviewing candidates, and won't decide for a while.


In case 1, you'll get a definite response. In cases 2 and 3, you won't learn anything, although they might be able to give you a rough estimate of when to expect to hear from them.

NB: If you have been offered a job at another institution, but you are still interested in this position, do definitely tell them. They may be able to speed up the process on their end to give you some more information.