Search Committee Resources
- CALS Tenure-Track Faculty Search Committee Guidelines
- Search Checklist
- Position Description/Job Ad SAMPLE 1 (regular search) SAMPLE 2 (Moonshot)
- Search Plan (both Part A and Part B are needed): Search Plan Part A (Word)/ Search Plan Part B (Excel)
- Additional Information (i.e. general process discussion/information)
- Recruitment of applicants - Sample emails (3)
- CALS SrAD Search Coordination Meeting Agenda - CALS Senior Associate Dean Discussion Points
DEI Search ReportAs of Fall 2023 this document has been incorporated into the Search Checklist above- Cornell University Best Practices in Faculty Recruitment and Hiring
- CALS Faculty Hires-Best Practices for Diversity I - Attracting a diverse pool
- CALS Faculty Hires-Best Practices for Diversity II - Evaluation
- Cornell University Office of Faculty Development and Diversity - How to Review Supporting a Diverse Community Statement
- CALS Rubric for Assessing Research/Teaching/Advising/Diversity (thank you to COMM search committee Profs Schuldt, Niederdeppe, Bailey, and Won, and student Xu, for their work on this!)
- Candidate Evaluation Tool
- Human Resources - Unlawful Inquiries
- Reducing Stereotypic Biases in Hiring
- Harvard Business Review - 7 Practical Ways to Reduce Bias in Your Hiring Process
- Rankings of the institutions that confer the most undergraduate and graduate degrees to Black, Indigenous, Latina/o/x and Asian-American students
Additional support may be leveraged to recruit key hires. Please review and discuss the following programs withyour senior associate dean if helpful to your recruitment:
Dual Career Recruitments
Assistance may be requested to support the successful recruitment of dual career couples, whether the dual career need is an academic or staff position. As soon as a dual career opportunity has been identified, the hiring authority should notify the senior associate dean, who can work with the Office of the Provost, the Dual Career Office, other college deans and/or non-Cornell units if/as appropriate. In order to encourage and facilitate dual career recruitments between different schools/colleges, currently, the Provost’s Office provides partial bridge funding for dual career partners when the primary hire would be to a tenure-track role and the secondary hire would be to any academic rank.
A variety of assistance is available from the Dual Career Office (primarily for those pursuing non-academic positions), including support in: searching for a position, networking, interviewing/honing a resume, and learning about the local hiring market. Information about accessing this support should be requested from your senior associate dean as soon as possible in the recruitment process, once a dual career need is identified.

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