Always recruit
- Establish and maintain a department list of graduate students whose conference presentations or journal articles are impressive so a search committee can follow-up with a personalized invitation to apply when a search commences.
- Attend conference panels devoted to diversity issues that includes graduate students — take notes, and email students who deliver impressive talks so that you begin to build relationships with promising scholars.
- Encourage senior faculty to reach out to young scholars they are impressed with early in their careers. A compliment from a senior colleague will be remembered.
- Encourage senior faculty to nurture relationships with senior faculty and graduate program directors at target doctoral programs for recruitment. Offer to visit graduate program to answer questions for graduate students and explain work at a R2 teaching university. Faculty at R1 universities often fail to nurture and prepare graduate students for the rewarding work of teaching at R2 schools.
Search specific recruitment
- Ask all faculty to post ads to disciplinary list-servs. Although the ad is publicly posted, listings on list-servs reinforce enthusiasm and catch those who aren’t necessarily looking. Add a personal appeal and offer to answer questions.
- Search committee members, as well as other faculty in the department, should:
- reach out to a wide range of doctoral programs that are known for their success with graduating diverse and highly qualified students
- send emails to professional contacts
- send job advertisements to doctoral programs located in HBCU’s, Womens’ Colleges and Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
- Use disciplinary organizations for recruitment
- Recruitment Resources
- “Top 100 Degree Producers,” a website by Diverse Issues in Higher Education
- List of Professional Groups — compiled centrally, this list includes discipline-specific professional groups.
Note: Montclair State University posts in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education and The Hispanic Outlook, and HigherEdjobs.com. For additional suggestions, see HR Suggested Advertising Venues.
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