Resources for Faculty Search Committees

This section provides links to various resources for conducting a faculty search, with emphasis on best practices for recruiting diverse candidates. For a more complete description of these resources, see Resources for Search Committees. A concise list of search manuals and places to advertise positions is found in Search Resources

Search instructions available from ISU Human Resource Services:

• Faculty recruitment and hiring procedures
• Faculty recruitment and employment

Resource Guide for Recruiting Excellent and Diverse Faculty from ISU Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost

Search manuals from other universities that include helpful tips:

• Case Western Reserve
• Cornell University
• Penn State University
• University of Arizona
• University of California Riverside
• University of Illinois at Chicago
• University of Michigan
• University of Minnesota
• University of Rhode Island
• University of Wisconsin
• Virginia Commonwealth

Annual summaries of numbers of potential candidates in specific fields:

• National Science Foundation
• NSF Science and Engineering Indicators
• Survey of Earned Doctorates (NORC, University of Chicago)

For places to post job openings, see Advertising Sources for Recruiting Diverse Faculty.

Information on unconscious bias and gender and racial schemas:

• Tutorials for Change (Hunter College) presents four tutorials on gender schemas and science careers. They can be taken online or downloaded for later use.
• The Implicit Association Test (Harvard University) measures the strength of association between concepts, and is based on the premise that associated concepts will be easier to categorize together than unassociated ones. Brief tests on a variety of subjects, including gender bias, can be taken.
• "Bias Literacy: A review of concepts in research on discrimination" by Ruta Sevo and Daryl Chubin is a 25-page digest of the evidence for discrimination, especially with reference to women in science and engineering. It can be downloaded as a PDF and freely distributed with proper attribution.
• Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering (National Academies Press) is a recent national report that can be purchased as a hardback book or as a downloadable PDF.