Recruitment of adjunct faculty
As you know, VCU maintains a strong commitment to equal opportunity in our recruitment of a diverse and highly-qualified workforce. As an Affirmative Action Equal Opportunity Employer, VCU is required to provide a competitive process for the selection of employees as well as the ability to track applicants. Adjunct faculty are an important part of our equal opportunity plan, but with the decentralized nature of hiring adjunct faculty, there has never been a standardized recruitment process, a mechanism to be able to appropriately track adjunct faculty, or a way to learn important trends. In addition, as the university plans events and makes information and resources available to adjunct faculty, it is important to have accurate data beginning with the recruitment process.
To that end, a standardized, competitive process has been developed for the recruitment of adjunct faculty. Effective Monday, August 7, 2017, adjunct faculty positions will be required to be recruited for and posted in VCU eJobs. The process developed for the recruitment of adjunct faculty is similar to the process that is successfully being used for hourly hires, but with a few modifications specific to adjunct faculty appointments (e.g., posting of academic qualifications and verification of credentials). Adjunct positions can be posted for a specific job or for a “rolling pool” of applicants.
At this time, current adjunct faculty appointments may continue to be renewed without going through a recruitment. Also, if potential adjunct faculty have already been identified and/or if discussions or offers of employment have taken place, these appointments will be honored and no recruitment will be required. However, once this new process is implemented, all future adjunct faculty positions are to follow the established recruitment process.
Below are links to the two (2) key instruction guides for this new adjunct recruitment process.
Adjunct Position Recruiting and Hiring Guide
eGuide to eJobs for Non-Benefited Positions
There are also additional tools to help you in the development of position descriptions and ads for recruiting adjunct faculty. All of the procedure guides and tools are available at http://www.provost.vcu.edu/faculty-affairs/pa-and-hiring-resources/faculty-searches/.
Important note: If the hiring of adjunct faculty is decentralized in your area(s) of responsibility, it would be greatly appreciated if you could forward this email and provide the necessary training to ensure compliance with this new process.
Should you have questions about this process, please contact Danielle Hairston (dnhairston@vcu.edu) or Carol Ann Irby (irbyca@vcu.edu), as applicable.
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