Best Practices For Faculty Search Committees: How To Review Applications And Interview Candidates

This book is for someone serving on their first search committee, chairing their first search, trying to avoid some of the mistakes made during the last search, or hoping to get the next hire right for a myriad of other reasons. This book presents best practices that faculty members and administrators have discovered to work well when they were trying to recruit and hire new faculty members. This brief guide book is intended to help make faculty search committees more effective and to make the work of serving on one, if not easy, then at least a little easier than it otherwise may have been. This book was written with busy college professors in mind, keeping what they need to know clear, concise, and above all practical. 

JEFFREY L. BULLER has served in administrative positions ranging from department chair to vice president for academic affairs at four very different institutions: Loras College, Georgia Southern University, Mary Baldwin College, and Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of twelve books on higher education administration, a textbook for first year college students, and a book of essays on the music dramas of Richard Wagner. More recently, he has been active as a consultant to the Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia, where he is assisting with the creation of a kingdom-wide Academic Leadership Center. Along with Robert E. Cipriano, Dr. Buller is a senior partner in ATLAS: Academic Training, Leadership, & Assessment Services, through which he has presented numerous workshops on academic leadership and faculty searches. His earlier books include The Essential Academic Dean, 2nd edition (2015), Change Leadership in Higher Education (2014), Positive Academic Leadership (2013), Best Practices in Faculty Evaluations (2012), The Essential Department Chair, 2nd Edition (2012), Academic Leadership Day by Day: Small Steps That Lead to Great Success (2011), and The Essential College Professor: A Practical Guide to an Academic Career (2010), as well as numerous articles for The Department Chair, Academic Leader, Recruitment and Retention in Higher Education, and Student Affairs Leader.