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Outlining the best practices in faculty searches provides committees and search officers with the strategic methods to conduct efficient, effective, fair, and consistent searches that will yield an excellent pool of candidates.
Common obstacles, concerns, and strategies for open and effective decision-making in the faculty search process (Transcript)
SELECTING SEARCH COMMITTEE MEMBERS Best Practices • Create a diverse search committee, including, where possible, women, underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities, and members of other underrepresented groups. • Appoint a search committee member as a diversity advocate to help ensure that the search is consistent with best practices in ...
Discuss roles and expectations of search committee members. Review institutional policies and procedures for search committees.
The search committee should include faculty from diverse backgrounds who may have helpful—and divergent—ideas that can enhance efforts to recruit and evaluate candidates. If everyone on the
Prior to each stage in the search process, the committee chair should remind the committee of the issues described in each section below: Define the search broadly so as not to focus too narrowly on subfields with few specialists.
Towards these ends, this manual is a resource for faculty search committees that outlines research-based best practices for hiring excellent and diverse faculty members.
