Academic Hiring Manual
Purpose of the Academic Hiring Process
- To recruit and hire the best complement of faculty and academic staff, advancing diversity of the University's academic workforce
- To provide substantive and procedural accountability for University commitments to a fair, legal, and effective recruitment process which advances academic workforce diversity
- To ensure implementation of principles of affirmative action and equal opportunity in hiring faculty and academic staff
- To permit review and authorization of academic position requests with respect to budget and program priorities
- To provide a compilation of information in an accessible, understandable, coherent, effective format, so that those responsible at MSU can meet requirements of a fair, legal and effective hiring procedure
- To satisfy MSU's commitments to the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) and other federal and state laws, including a database to satisfy audit requirements
- To accomplish purposes 1 through 6 expeditiously, with efficient use of human and other resources