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Hiring and Tenure Guides
The University of Washington has created an exemplary
Faculty Recruitment Tool kit
which clearly lays out strategies to encourage women and
minorities to apply and
establishes fair procedures for the hiring process which are
respectful of the applicant.
It also has substantial additional information about issues
around the hiring process and
is a model which could easily be adapted for other
institutions. If the absence of a
guide for diverse searches is impeding efforts to hire more
women and minorities at
your institution, this would be a valuable instrument for
improving local procedures. It
can be obtained by writing to Scott Griep at the UW College
of Engineering (
griep@mail.engr.washington.edu).
In 1996 the UC Berkeley Committee on the Status of Women and
Ethnic Minorities
chaired by Professor Judith Warren Little updated a valuable
Advancement and
Promotion of Junior Faculty at U.C. Berkeley: A Tenure
Guide. This is essential
reading for job applicants and junior faculty everywhere. It
deals with the formal and
informal aspects of building a successful career and how to
deal with the particular
problems women and minorities may encounter, including when
difficulties arise in the
review for tenure process. These are universal even if local
procedures vary, so this
document is of great importance no matter what your
institution. Use it and send this
URL to any junior faculty and advanced graduate student of
your acquaintance:
http://amber.berkeley.edu:4205/resources/links/tenure_guide.
html.
Good Practice in Tenure Evaluation: Advice for Tenured
Faculty, Department
Chairs, and Academic Administrators is a joint project
of the American Council
on Education, American Association of University Professors,
and the United
Educators Insurance Risk Retention Group. The report focuses
on four major themes:
Clarity in standards and procedures for tenure evaluation,
consistency in tenure
decisions, candor in the evaluation of tenure-track faculty,
and caring for unsuccessful
candidates. For further information and a link to the
document, see:
www.acenet.edu/news/press_release/2000/12december/tenure.htm
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