Hire the Right Faculty Member Every Time: Best Practices in Recruiting, Selecting, and Onboarding College Professors
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (521 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 147583652X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 104 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-06-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jeffrey L. Buller is the director of Leadership and Professional Development at Florida Atlantic University and a senior partner in ATLAS Leadership Training. He is the author of thirteen books on academic leadership and numerous articles, including nearly two hundred on higher education administration.. He holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Hire The Right Faculty Member Every Time is a concise guide for hiring authorities at colleges and universities. The book provides insight into the state of faculty hiring at colleges and universities today, advice on the best way to design positions, recommendations on how to conduct an interview, guidelines on how to make a decision about whom to hire, perspectives on what to remember when closing the deal, and hints about providing the right kind of orientation and onboarding services to new hires.
Follow these guidelines and avoid the pitfalls of the failed search. Chun, PhD, Chief Learning Officer, HigherEd Talent) . (Edna B. (Jeanne A.K. The book provides concrete suggestions that will strengthen the faculty talent pipeline and enhance organizational excellence. I hope more academic leaders will learn from books like this one just how complex it can be to organize, conduct, and complete a successful faculty search. (Ralph Rogers, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs, Nova Southeastern University)No professional decision is more important than whom we hire. One my greatest surprises as an academic administrator is how often little planning and thought goes into faculty hiring beyond the position advertisement and who is on the search committee. Yet, time and again, academic departments get it wrong, leading to years of anguish that result from a poor match between a new hire and the institution. Hey, dean, College of Ar