Faculty Search Guide

The following guide empowers the faculty search process by providing step-by-step instructions, tools, and parameters for hiring.

Faculty personnel are essential to realizing the university’s mission and the importance of a successful and well-run search cannot be overstated. Faculty searches entail a significant time and financial resource commitment. All stakeholders participating in searches are responsible for understanding and adhering to this guide. This guide applies to all faculty search types, including full-time positions, regardless of tenure status, as well as to postdocs and adjuncts.

William & Mary is committed to diversity and equal opportunity and to ensuring compliance with affirmative action. To fulfill these obligations and to align with the university's strategic goals, these search procedures do the following:

Provide for transparency and consistency to render the hiring process inclusive and fair;
Guard against conscious and unconscious discrimination or bias against any individual or group based on race, sex, age, military status, or other legally protected class. Please see also the Prohibiting Discrimination, Discriminatory Harassment, Retaliation & Sexual Misconduct policy.
Seek to enhance the diversity in our workforce, consistent with William & Mary’s mission to prepare our students for lives as global citizens and professionals in a pluralistic democracy.

Please review William & Mary's Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Policy Statement.

Inclusive Excellence

At William & Mary, Inclusive Excellence is a framework designed to advance William & Mary’s core values of belonging and excellence in a cohesive and collaborative way, throughout the university - from academics to procurement. The Inclusive Excellence model, reflects an understanding that diversity and inclusion are integral to every successful enterprise, not isolated initiatives. More information on the framework is located here.

Expectation for Participating in Hiring

Any individual participating in faculty searches, in an evaluator capacity, is required to attend an Implicit Bias workshop to stay current on the latest research on effective recruitment and hiring. We strongly encourage every full-time faculty to attend at their earliest opportunity. Faculty who fail to complete a workshop may be excluded from search participation.

Upcoming Faculty Implicit Bias Workshops

Open for search committees in the professional schools (School of Education, Law School, Batten School of Marine Science, Mason School of Business)

Wednesday, October 2 (9:00-10:30am)
Thursday, October 17 (2:00-3:30pm)
Wednesday, November 13 (9:00-10:30am)

Please see the Office of Diversity & Inclusion website to register for an upcoming workshop.