Setting the Search Committee's Charge

It is expected that all hiring for EHRA tenure-track and fixed-term faculty positions and for EHRA non-faculty positions will be done through the use of a search committee. Search committees are expected to work closely with the departmental Equal Employment Opportunity Officers.

The committee should receive a charge setting forth the expectations for the position and the search committee's role in helping to fill it. The committee's charge should include a detailed position description with preferred and minimum qualifications and advertising and outreach sources. The committee should be charged with developing selection criteria that is objective and based on the position requirements.

At the beginning of the search is a good time to review the department's workforce composition and identify departmental needs with respect to diversity and consideration of under-representation of women and minorities as well as other issues as they relate to conducting an equal opportunity/affirmative action search.