Aspiring PhD students interested in Ancient Philosophy will want to keep an eye on this

Marko Malink, Associate Professor of Philosophy here at the University of Chicago, and Jennifer Whiting, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto, both have senior offers from the Department of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh.  (Malink also has a tenured offer from another top department, though I don't yet have permission to name the one.)  While both Chicago and Toronto will continue to have strong ancient philosophy programs if they lose these faculty, Pitt will go from being strong in ancient to one of two or three best programs in the U.S. if they can recruit them both.  Unfortunately, this is unlikely to be resolved in time for the current PGR surveys.  (Pitt has already made a junior lateral hire of Jessica Gelber in ancient from Syracuse.)