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Home > Faculty : Academic Recruitment & Hiring

Academic Recruitment & Hiring

Intended as a guide to the recruitment and hiring of faculty and academic professional and administrative employees in the College of Liberal Arts.

Faculty employees include regular faculty (tenured and tenure-track) and term faculty (adjunct, contract, visiting, temporary).

Academic professional and administrative employees include P/A instructional staff (lecturers and teaching specialists), and other P/A employees, with or without teaching responsibilities (e.g., academic advisors, coordinators, education specialists, program directors, etc).

Questions about academic search policies and procedures in the College of Liberal Arts should be referred to the Office of the Associate Dean for Faculty or CLA Human Resources, at 612-624-9839.

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CLA Guidelines for Academic Recruitment & Hiring

• Diversity & Excellence in Recruitment
• Authorization to Search - Preparing to Search - Sample Requisitions
• Search Committee Responsibilities
• Search Documentation & Approvals
• Tenured Hires
  

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Academic Hiring Authorization Form

• Academic Hiring Authorization Form (Dec 2011) (DOC)

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Governing Documents

• Board of Regents Policy on Employee Recruitment and Retention
• Administrative Policy on Recruitment and Selection of Faculty and Academic Professional and Administrative Employees (OHR)

Supporting Documents

• Equity and Diversity in the Search Process Toolkit (EOAA)
• Best Practices in Recruiting and Retaining Diverse Faculty at the University of Minnesota - A handbook for institutional leaders and faculty search committees (Office for Equity and Diversity; pdf)

Supporting Policies

• Board of Regents Policy on Faculty Tenure (Regents, pdf)
• Administrative Policy on Academic Appointments with Teaching Functions (OHR)
• Administrative Policy on Appointments of Academic Professional and Administrative Employees (OHR)
• Collegiate Plan for the Implementation of the Administrative Policy on Academic Appointments (CLA, pdf)
  • Summary of Collegiate-Specific Decisions (CLA, pdf)

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University Resources

• Employee Benefits
• Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action
• International Student and Scholar Services
• Relocation Assistance Program

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