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Search Committee

Resources for Search committees

  • The work of search committees is a valuable service to the university. Faculty excellence is foundational to organizational excellence and is predicated upon the dedicated work of individual committee members in attracting the best possible applicant pool. The VPFRR has thus put together a tutorial and set of resources for Search Committees. Please visit the VPFRR Search Committee Tutorial to learn more.

 

Confidentiality

 

  • Dowdall, J. 2005. Bad behavior in a search. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 51(32). April 8, 2005. Retrieved on February 15, 2008 from http://chronicle.com/article/Bad-Behavior-in-a-Search/44900/

  • Marchese T.J. and J.F. Lawrence. 2006. The search committee handbook: A guide to recruiting administrators, 2nd ed. Sponsored by the American Association for Higher Education. Sterling, VA: Stylus.

  • School of Medicine, Stanford University. 2008. Guide to faculty searches. Retrieved on February 7, 2008 fromhttp://med.stanford.edu/academicaffairs/facultysearch/committee.html

  • Vicker L.A. and H.J. Royer. 2006. The complete academic search manual: A systematic approach to successful and inclusive hiring. Sterling, VA: Stylus.

 

Before Writing the Position Description

  • Lange, S.E.  and J.W. Yen. 2005. Toolkits for retention and recruitment: Utilization and outcomes. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition. Retrieved on January 8, 2008 from http://www.asee.org/acPapers/2005-1231_Final.pdf

  • Moody, J. 2007. Rising above cognitive errors: Guidelines for search, tenure review, and other evaluation committees. JoAnn Moody. To order this monograph go to JoAnn Moody's Web site, http://www.diversityoncampus.com/id13.html

  • NSF ADVANCE, University of Rhode Island. 2007. Faculty recruitment handbook: A research-based guide for active diversity recruitment practices. Retrieved on November 30, 2007 from http://www.uri.edu/advance/files/pdf/Recruit_Handbook_Web.pdf

  • Terry, E., A. Effrat and M.D. Sorcinelli. 2006. Faculty development and renewal to enhance diversity and inclusion. Presentation at a conference, Diversity and Learning: A Defining Moment, Association of American Colleges and Universities. October 19-21. Philadelphia, PA.

  • Trachtenberg, S.J. 2007. Goodbye to Procrustes and Goldilocks. Inside Higher Education, October 18, 2007.  Retrieved on October 19, 2007 from http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2007/10/18/trachtenberg

  • Turner, C.S.V. 2003. Diversifying the faculty: A guidebook for search committees. Washington, D.C.: Association of American Colleges and Universities.

  • Van der Vorm, P. 2001. The well-tempered search: Hiring faculty and administration for mission. Academe. 87(3). May-June. Retrieved on February 18, 2008 from http://www.aaup.org/AAUP/pubsres/academe/2001/MJ/Feat/Vorm.htm

  • Vicker L.A. and H.J. Royer. 2006. The complete academic search manual: A systematic approach to successful and inclusive hiring. Sterling, VA: Stylus.

 

Reference Letters

 

Dual Careers

  • How to Cope with the Market as an Academic Couple (Chronicle of Higher Education)

  • The A - Z of Dual Career Couples (Chronicle of Higher Education)

  • The Secrets of Our Success? (Chronicle of Higher Education)

  • 2 People, 1 Job, 36 Years (Inside Higher Ed) A different take on what it means to be a dual career couple

  • Whose Job Is It, Anyway? (Chronicle of Higher Education) The age-old prejudice against nonacademic careers for Ph.D.s

  • Acker, J., Baskin, B., Bird, G. W., & Bird, G. A. (2006).  Dual-Career Academic Couples.  Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University.           

  • Astin, H. S., and Milem, J. F. (1997).  The status of academic couples in U. S. institutions.  In Academic Couples:  Problems and promises, ed. M. A. Ferber and J. W. Loeb.  Urbana:  University of Illinois Press.

  • Burke, D. (1988).  A new academic marketplace.  New York:  Greenwood Press.

  • Didion, C. J. (1996).  Dual careers and shared positions:  Adjusting university policy to accommodate academic couples.  Journal of College Science Teaching 26(2): 123-24.

  • Wolf-Wendel, L., Twombley, S. B., & Rice, S. (Eds.)  (2003).  The Two-Body Problem.  Baltimore and London:  The Johns Hopkins University Press.

  • Bombardieri, M. 2007. Dual careers worry academia. The Boston Globe. June 11, 2007.

  • Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Dual career academic couples. Stanford University. Retrieved on January 5, 2008 from http://www.stanford.edu/group/gender/ResearchPrograms/DualCareer/index.html

  • Dual Career Program, West Virginia University. Retrieved on November 14, 2007 from http://www.dualcareer.wvu.edu/

  • Frank Fox, M. 2005. “Gender, Family Characteristics, and Publication Productivity Among Scientists.” Social Studies of Science, 35 (1): 131-150. Retrieved on January 6, 2008 from http://sss.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/35/1/131

  • Fraser, G. 2007. Newly hired faculty focus group transcripts. Examining the experience of faculty search committees and newly hired faculty in order to improve the search process, IRB-SBS Protocol 2006-0358-00. Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Recruitment & Retention, University of Virginia.

  • Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (HERC). 2008. National portal page. Retrieved on February 12, 2008 fromhttp://www.hercjobs.org/home/index.cfm?site_id=793

  • Mid-Atlantic Higher Education Recruitment Consortium (MA-HERC). 2008. Frequently asked questions.

  • NSF ADVANCE, Columbia University. 2005. A proposal for recruiting and retaining dual-career couples. The Earth Institute ADVANCE Working Group on Science & Technology Recruiting to Increase Diversity (STRIDE). Retrieved on January 6, 2008 from www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/advance/documents/STRIDE_dual_career_final_000.pdf

  • NSF ADVANCE, University of Michigan. Handbook for faculty searches and hiring, 2007-2008. Retrieved on January 22, 2008 from http://www.umich.edu/~advproj/handbook.pdf

  • Office of Dual Career Recruitment, Human Resources, University of Virginia.

  • Scott-Scurry, D. 2008. Personal communication. Director of UVa’s Office of Equal Opportunity Programs.

Gender Bias

 

Because the online version of the following journals use timed/timed out sessions, we cannot give you a direct URL for the article (i.e., the URL changes with each session and each computer). We are hoping to get permission to post a link to a .pdf version on this Web site. In the meantime access is available to this journal, and the article, via VIRGO; once you are in the correct issue scroll down to article # specified. We apologize for the inconvenience. Links to articles from all other journals are direct.

  • Fazio, R.H., J.R. Jackson; B.C. Dunton and C.J. Williams. 1995. Variability in automatic activation as an unobtrusive measure of racial attitudes: A bona fide pipeline? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69(6): 1013-1027. Retrieved on April 17, 2008. #3

  • Lowery, B.S., C.D. Hardin and S. Sinclair. 2001. Social influence effects on automatic racial prejudice. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 81: 842–855. Retrieved on February 8, 2008. #13

  • Sinclair, S., B. Lowery., C. Hardin and A. Colangelo. 2005. Social tuning of automatic attitudes: The role of affiliative motivation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89: 583 – 592. Retrieved on February 8, 2008. #14

  • Wittenbrink, B., C.M. Judd and B. Park. 1997. Evidence for racial prejudice at the implicit level and its relationship with questionnaire measures. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 72(2): 262-74. Retrieved on April 17, 2008.#4

 

Welcoming New Hires

  • Dowdall, J. 2003. Going it alone: Even though they might not use search consultants, hiring committees can employ their tactics. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 50(7). Retrieved on February 3, 2008 from http://chronicle.com/article/Going-It-Alone/17341/

  • Fraser, G. 2007. Personal communication.  

  • Olson, G.A. 2007. Don’t just search, recruit. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 53(38). Retrieved on January 23, 2008 from http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Dont-Just-Search-Recruit/74/

  • Vicker L.A., and H.J. Royer. 2006. The complete academic search manual: A systematic approach to successful and inclusive hiring. Sterling, VA: Stylus.​

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