Academic Recruitment and Hiring
Information current as of date indicated. 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, both at 612-624-9839.
Online Employment Requisitions
Position descriptions and corresponding employment requisitions must be created and approved within the Univesity's online employment system, following the standard collegiate format for faculty employment postings. Sample requisitions for faculty positions are provided below. For open rank searches, separate employment requisitions are required for tenure-track and tenured applicants. Units are asked to include a thorough rationale for the position in the notes section of the online employment requisition.
Sample Requisitions
- Art History, tenure-track assistant professor
- German, Scandinavian, and Dutch, tenure-track assistant professor or tenured associate professor
- Music, tenure-track assistant professor
- Political Science, tenure-track assistant professor or tenured associate professor
- Psychology, tenured professor
Applications
Applicants for faculty and academic professional and administrative positions in the College of Liberal Arts must submit a letter of application and curricula vitae through the online employment system. Applicants who submit these materials outside the online system may not be consideredas candidates until they submit an electronic application or arrangements have been made with the Office of Human Resources to upload application materials to the appropriate requisition.
Applicants may be directed to submit additional materials, e.g., letters of recommendation and publications, directly to the department, either at the time of initial application or as requested later, depending on department practice and disciplinary norms.
To streamline internal processes and improve response time for pool approvals and requests for hire, the college will review candidate application materials online and utilize applicant and EOAA reports generated by the online system.
Search reports, reasons of non-selection, requests for hire, hiring authorization forms, and draft offer letters should be sent electronically to clahr@umn.edu.
Academic Hiring Authorization Form
Training Aids
- Academic Hiring Training Powerpoint - July 2008 (ppt)
- Changing a Status (doc)
- How to: Put a Job on Hold; Change the Status of Applicants; Cancel a Posting (doc)
Governing Documents
- Board of Regents Policy - Faculty Tenure (pdf) (Regents)
- Appointments of Academic Professional and Administrative Employees (OHR)
- Academic Appointments with Teaching Functions (OHR)
- Recruitment and Selection of Faculty and Academic Professional and Administrative Employees (OHR)
- EOAA and Effective Searches: Guidance for Search Committees and Hiring Authorities (EOAA)
- Collegiate Plan for the Implementation of the Administrative Policy on Academic Appointments (pdf) (CLA)
CLA Guidelines for Academic Recruitment and Hiring
- General Principles and Objectives—Diversity and Excellence in Recruitment
- Authorization to Search—Preparing to Search
- Citizenship, Residency and Visa Requirements
- Search Committee Responsibilities
- Search Documentation & Approvals
- Tenured Hires
- Appointment Without a Search