Faculty Search Committee Launch Kit

Many colleges and universities are looking for ways to recruit top talent to open faculty positions. To increase the size, quality, and diversity of candidate pools, search committees must critically examine every step of sourcing, attracting, and hiring faculty members.

For example, many departments fail to source candidates year-round, leading to smaller, less diverse pools, and jobs ads that use narrow language may exclude candidates based on their teaching or research background. Final round interviews often fail to sell candidates on the faculty community, and once in seat, some faculty members will find it difficult to find informal mentorship networks to help advance their careers.

Explore 13 tools for search committee heads to use at each step of the faculty search process to yield and hire a larger, qualified, and more diverse pool of candidates.