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Faculty Search Handbook Guidelines

This comprehensive Handbook is adapted for Lehigh University from a variety of institutions and adapted from the University of Michigan’s Faculty Recruitment handbook, created under the auspices of an NSF ADVANCE grant, MIT, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Washington, the University of Minnesota, Penn State University, the University of Virginia, Rutgers University, Drexel University, Colgate, and Lehigh University College of Arts & Sciences.

For more information or additional copies of this resource, please contact the Office of Academic Diversity at 618 Brodhead Ave, 610-758-4802. The electronic version of this handbook is housed at the Academic Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement website; the Provost’s website; and the ADVANCE grant website.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
   • Message from the Provost
2. Before the Search Begins
   • Reviewing the Candidate Pool
3. Legal Issues & the Search Process
   • Guidelines
4. Initiating the Faculty Search Process
   • Introduction
   • Completing All the Appropriate Paperwork
   • Composition of the Committee
   • The Search Committee’s Charge
   • How To Make Recruitment Work
   • Reviewing Previous Departmental Search
   • Defining the Position Suggestions
   • Wording for Announcing Positions
5. Recruiting Activities During the Search
   • Broadening the Hiring Net Suggestions
   • Active Recruiting Practices
   • Prescreening of Candidates
   • Creating the Short List
   • Interdisciplinary Hiring
6. Managing Campus Visits
   • Interviewing the Candidates
   • Campus Visit
   • Factors that Bias Interviews
   • Suggestions on Ways to Eliminate Bias
   • Examples that Bias Interviews
   • Best Management Practices for Interviewing
   • Guidelines for Interview Questions
   • Guidelines for Hiring Foreign National Employees at Lehigh University & Services Available to a New Foreign National Faculty Member (8/16/12)
   • Work Life Balance & Dual Career Resources
   • Guidelines for Conducting Reference Checks
   • Guidelines for Providing Accommodations for Disabilities
7. Final Selection of a Candidate
8. Negotiating Contracts / Offers
9. Evaluating the Search

APPENDIX

1. Faculty Recruitment & Initial Appointment Checklist
2. Faculty Employment Request Form
3. Permission to Advertise Request Form
4. Reason for Declining Faculty Appointment Offer Form
5. Workshops to Support the Process
   • Cornell Interactive Theatre Ensemble Group
   • Internal Group—Faculty Search Workshops
6. Principles of Our Equitable Community Document
7. Lehigh University’s Core Values
8. Board of Trustees Diversity Statement
   • Mission Statement
9. Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action / Non-Discrimination Policy
10. Resources for Recruitment: Workshops, Publications, Organizations & Websites
    • General Resources for Faculty Searches
    • Women Faculty & Institutions
    • Historically Black Colleges & Universities
    • Asian Faculty
    • Faculty with Disabilities
    • Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Faculty
    • Native American Faculty
    • Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) & Faculty
    • Minority & Women Doctoral Directory
11. College & University Addresses
    • Women’s College & University List
    • Historically Black Colleges & Universities List
    • Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI) List
12. Women & Minority Institutional Doctoral Directory
13. Women & Minority Doctoral Award History
14. Readings on Diversity, Gender & Faculty Recruitment
15. Handbook References
16. Faculty Search Resources
17. Lehigh University Administrative Offices to Support Faculty Search

View the Faculty Search Handbook Guidelines > (PDF, 2.8 MB) Updated 2-27-13