RECRUITMENT OF FACULTY

Approval to Recruit Faculty:

Responsibility of the Dean or Campus Director:
The Hiring Authority (Dean or Campus Director) requests approval of the Chancellor to fill a vacant or new faculty position. Recruitment requests must include a program review with the following information. Requests should be routed to the Chancellor through the Provost.

• Four year credit hour and head count history and, where appropriate, admitted majors and completers.
• Outline of all courses (number of sections/semester) included in the program.
• Faculty resources (full time and adjunct) devoted to teaching the program, including regional discipline faculty (Ketchikan, Sitka and Juneau).
• List of courses the position will teach and projected credit hours based on past enrollments as well as projected growth from retention and recruitment.
• Research activity that will be required of the position, if appropriate,
• Anticipated changes in program direction that tie directly to the strategic plan, if appropriate.

Responsibility of Personnel Services/Human Resources:
Once approved by the Chancellor, the Dean or Campus Director initiates the recruitment process and provides Human Resource (HR) staff with the following.

• Chancellor’s Approval to recruit
• Screening Criteria (see committee charge)
• Interview Questions (see committee charge)
• Current Position description
• Funding Source
• Recruitment Period
• CIP Code: faculty discipline to be advertised (from the Provost’s Office)
• Vacancy announcement in the format provided by the regional personnel office and, if appropriate, corresponding advertisement(s). Advertisements are condensations of the vacancy announcement and must include at minimum the position title, closing/review date, and contact information.
• List of targeted recruitment sources: newspapers, Websites, disciplinary journals, organizations, etc.

08/07