William Jury Vice Provost for Academic Personnel

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William JuryVice Provost for Academic Personnel

• Faculty Recruitment

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Faculty Recruitment

• Southern California HERC Overview
• Founded in August 2003
• Mission Share information and resources among
  member institutions to recruit and retain
  outstanding faculty, administrators and staff

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Faculty Recruitment

• Southern California HERC Goals
• Share successful information on recruitment and
  retention issues
• Develop and promote a collaborative employment
  Web site
• Partner with member campuses on spousal
  employment issues.

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Faculty Recruitment

• Southern California HERC Accomplishments
• 46,000 hits already
• Approx. 1,650 jobs on the site
• Web site partnerships and reciprocal links have
  been developed with diversity and other
  employment sites
• The HERC concept is spreading - the East Coast
  HERC kicked off recently at Princeton

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Faculty Recruitment

• Southern California HERC Features
• Custom Profile for Job Seekers
• E-mail Alerts to Job Seekers
• Dual Career Searches for Job Seekers their
  Partners
• Community Information
• Premier Resources

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Faculty Recruitment

• Web Site

www.socalherc.org
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Faculty Recruitment

• New Appointment File Requirements
• File must be updated when candidate is selected
• For a beginning appointment no less that three
  letters should come forward with the file.
• For tenured appointments, some extramural
  evaluation should be sought from referees
  familiar with the UC system

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Faculty Recruitment

• New Appointment File Requirements
• For tenured appointments both the department and
  the candidate should suggest names for referees.
• The number of letters sought should be comparable
  to the number sought for advancement to the same
  rank.
• Avoid seeking too many referees having close
  associations with the candidate

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Faculty Recruitment

• Handbook for Hiring Changes
• Clery Act Notification pg 4
• Extramural letter requirements pg 8
• TOP procedures (future change)
• Delegation of review to Vice Provost for Academic
  Personnel