UW-River Falls

Faculty and Academic Staff Handbook

19th Edition, 2009 Version (In Progress)

Chapter VI: Academic Staff Personnel Policies and Procedures

6.4 Recruitment: UWRF 4

6.4.1 Position Vacancy

Current procedures for requesting and filling positions are found in the document entitled “Recruitment Overview,” on the UWRF Human Resources website

http://www.uwrf.edu/hr/fac_recruitment.htm

Procedures for the hiring of part-time instructional academic staff (Recruitment and Selection Procedures for Part-time Instructional Academic Staff [FS 94/95 #26]) are in the process of being reviewed and revised.

6.4.2 Recruitment-Procedure

The search and screen committee is obligated to provide a complete description of the contractual appointment of an academic staff position and University policies regarding future potential employment options.

6.4.3 Search and Screen Committee Structure

Administrative academic staff search and screen composition should reflect, as much as possible, both the stake various groups have in the outcome and the extent to which that group will deal with each particular administrator. All committees shall include gender and racial/ethnic diversity within the voting membership at a level approved by the Assistant to the Chancellor for Equity, Compliance, and Affirmative Action.

Composition of committees searching for positions in which the appointee does not receive faculty tenure and which are primarily non-academic administrative positions shall consist of members of the academic staff, members of the faculty, student members, classified employees, and members selected by the Chancellor. If after the Chancellor has made his or her selection of members the academic staff do not constitute the largest representation of any one group on the committee, additional academic staff members shall be added to ensure the appropriate representation.

Non-voting members that the committee shall consult with to ensure compliance with federal, state, UW-System and UW-River Falls policies and procedures shall include at a minimum the Assistant to the Chancellor for Equity, Compliance, and Affirmative Action and the Director of Human Resources.

The Assistant to the Chancellor for Equity, Compliance, and Affirmative Action is responsible for ensuring compliance with affirmative action regulations, compiling required AA/EEO data on each applicant and providing summary data as appropriate. If the Assistant to the Chancellor for Equity, Compliance, and Affirmative Action determines that a search committee membership is not sufficiently diverse, he or she may ask that any or all groups of nominees be revised.

The Director of Human Resources is responsible for convening the search committee, serving as a resource in the search process, and facilitating the recruitment process within the UW-River Falls guidelines in consultation with the hiring authority, including a Dean, division head, Provost, Vice Chancellor, or Chancellor, and the Assistant to the Chancellor for Equity, Compliance, and Affirmative Action.