Faculty Recruitment & Appointment
The following are resources for departments to use when recruiting new faculty members. Please contact the A&S Associate Director for Faculty Personnel Services with questions.
Recruitment Resources, Overviews
- A&S Faculty Search Matrix [pdf] (overview and selected steps)
- A&S Hiring Proposal Approval Flow Cycle [pdf]
- Human Resources: Recruitment Resources
- Applicant Disposition Workflow States for PeopleAdmin [pdf]
Diversity & Ethics
- CCAS/AAUP statement on Ethics of Faculty Recruitment [pdf]
- Diversity and Affinity Professional Organizations Recruitment Resources [pdf] Hiring units are encouraged to post in at least one of the listed pages.
Tenured & Tenure-Eligible Faculty
- TTE Recruitment Timeline and Guide [pdf]
- Ad Template TTE Faculty Job Ad [docx]
- TTE Screening Rubric Template (Fall 2024) [xls]
- Sample Rubric Template [xls]: Sample actual rubric. Modify for your specific position type (using rubric template above) with required & preferred qualifications from your job ad. Submit both your narrative job ad and proposed rubric at the same time to the Dean's Office for approval.
- TTE Positions Description Sample (for People Admin) [pdf]
- Creating a People Admin Posting (Faculty) Job Aid [pdf]
- Creating a People Admin Hiring Proposal (Faculty) Job Aid [pdf]
- TE Interview Planning Checklist [xls]
- TE Interview Itinerary sample [docx]
- RPT Standard Schedule for TE Interim & Tenure Review [pdf]
Teaching Faculty (TF) & Visiting Teaching Faculty (VTF)
- Teaching Faculty (TF) & Visiting Teaching Faculty (VTF) Recruitment Timeline and Guide [pdf]
- Ad Template Teaching Faculty (TF) Full-time Job Ad [docx]
- Ad Template Visiting Teaching Faculty (VTF) Full-time Job Ad [docx]
- TF & VTF Screening Rubric Template (Fall 2024) [xls]
- Sample Rubric Template [xls]: Sample actual rubric. Modify for your specific position type (using rubric template above) with required & preferred qualifications from your job ad. Submit both your narrative job ad and proposed rubric at the same time to the Dean's Office for approval.
- TF & Visiting TF Position Description Sample (for People Admin) [pdf]
- Creating a People Admin Posting (Faculty) Job Aid [pdf]
- Creating a People Admin Hiring Proposal (Faculty) Job Aid [pdf]
Postdoctoral Research Associate Faculty
- Postdoctoral Timeline & Guide [pdf]
- Ad Template POSTDOC Faculty Job Aid [docx]
- Postdoctoral Position Description Sample (for People Admin) [docx]
- Creating a People Admin Posting (Faculty) Job Aid [pdf]
- Creating a People Admin Hiring Proposal (Faculty) Job Aid [pdf]
Adjunct Lecturer Faculty
- Adjunct Recruit Timeline and Guide [pdf]
- Adjunct Pool Position Description Sample (for People Admin) [docx]
- Managing Pooled Positions in People Admin Job Aid [pdf]
- Creating a People Admin Posting (Faculty) Job Aid [pdf]
- Creating a People Admin Hiring Proposal (Faculty) Job Aid [pdf]
Affiliate Appointments
Appointment Forms and Procedures
- Full-time Faculty Appointment Form (FAF) [DocuSign]: use this FAF to initiate a letter of intent for TTE faculty, or contract for other full-time, specified term instructional or research faculty.
- Adjunct/Summer Faculty Appointment Form (FAF) [DocuSign]: use this FAF to initiate a contract for any paid, part-time, non-tenure eligible instructional faculty for Fall, Spring, or Summer Terms. This FAF is also used for any full-time faculty or Graduate Student IOR who will teach an academic year (AY) overload or summer session course.
- Faculty Appointment Form Procedures [pdf]
- Affiliated Scholar (Courtesy Appt) Request Form [DocuSign]: used to initiate external affiliated scholar appointments for non-employees who hold credentials equivalent to W&M Faculty. Also used for A&S internal Instructor of Record affiliation requests for W&M Professional staff. See A&S Definitions & Procedures pdf above (under affiliate appointments) for more information regarding this form.
- Affiliated Scholar (Courtesy Appt) Request Form Procedures [pdf]
- Emeritus Faculty Investigator Pay Process (2016)
Dual Career
- FAS Joint Appointment Policy [pdf] [September 2020] (pending approval by PPC)
- W&M Dual Careers