Search Committee Resources

1. CALS Tenure-Track Faculty Search Committee Resources:
   • CALS Search Checklist with approval stops
     Note: Approval stops are used by CALS SrAD to be sure the pool is robust in size and quality at the outset (first stop), and in later stops we are asking search chairs for a narrative explanation for their choices, ensuring appropriate rank of finalists, and following the timeliness of search efforts.
   • Position Description/Job Ad: SAMPLE 1 Job Ad (regular search), SAMPLE 2 Job Ad (regular search-tba), SAMPLE 3 Job Ad (Moonshot)
   • Search Plan Samples (both Part A and Part B are needed): SAMPLE 1 Search Plan Part A with Rubric (Word)/
      SAMPLE 1 Search Plan Part B (Excel)
   • Additional Information (i.e. general process discussion/information - companion document to the CALS Search Checklist)
   • Cornell University Faculty Misconduct Disclosure and Consent Form - to be sent with invitations to finalists for on-campus interviews. See CALS Search Checklist for wording to be used in invitation.
2. Cornell University Best Practices in TT Faculty Recruitment and Hiring
3. CALS Rubric for Assessing Research/Teaching/Advising/Extension (ext TBA)
4. Candidate Evaluation Tool
5. Human Resources - Unlawful Inquiries
6. Why you should consider sharing interview questions with candidates (explaining CALS best-practices)

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.