1.8 Accountability

Hiring units are accountable for making good hiring decisions and in recruiting and retaining outstanding faculty and staff who not only excel in their fields, but who promote multicultural understanding through their teaching and leadership and who themselves represent the diverse population of our nation.

Communication is important in keeping all administrative levels accountable. Search Committee Chairs should keep Department Approvers informed during the search process. Department Approvers should keep the Dean/Division Approver informed as to the progress of the search so that they may, in turn, keep the Executive Approver informed.

It is appropriate for the Provost and/or Dean/Division Approver to meet with the search committee during the search process to give the search committee its charge. The Provost and/or Dean/Division Approver should not, however, otherwise participate in or attend meetings of the search committee, as the presence of the Provost and/or Dean/Division Approver during search committee meetings may unduly influence or hinder the search committee’s objectivity and independence in discharging its search obligations.

Approvals occur at various stages of the search process. A summary of the faculty and administrator hiring process as well as a summary of the executive, administrative and professional staff hiring process is available online.