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Our high-quality faculty drives UCR's efforts to help our students, and the university itself, to reach their full potential.
UCR is always looking for scholars who show leadership on campus by empowering students through impassioned teaching and effective mentoring. The combination enables dedicated faculty members to inspire students, be they first-time college-goers or experienced graduate students.
Finding Out About Open Positions at UCR
While individual departments post faculty and academic staff positions on their Web sites, the university believes in using a variety of resources to ensure excellent candidate pools. In order to ensure the best candidates are being considered, UCR is a founding member of the Higher Education Recruitment Consortium, or HERC.
HERC operates as a clearinghouse for academic and staff employment opportunities at colleges and universities throughout Southern California. Developed in 2003, HERC is especially helpful in helping spouses and partners of faculty and staff find employment within the region. Providing this service helps UCR not only attract new faculty, but also retain valuable members of our teaching and research efforts.
A web-based search engine includes faculty and staff job openings at each of the member institutions. The free service can help a prospective faculty member stay abreast of job openings at UCR. Couples can take advantage of the "dual-career" job search function.
The Hiring Process
Faculty and academic staff positions are filled by individual departments via an extensive and effective hiring process. The university typically begins recruiting for openings early, in order to ensure it is able to hire the best and most diverse faculty members possible. The process typically involves:- Recruitment efforts clearly state necessary qualifications, the rank - assistant, associate or full professor - being recruited and how to apply for the position.
- A search committee typically creates the pool of potential employees and develops a list of potential candidates who will be interviewed, although some academic units use the entire faculty to select the short list.
- Candidates are notified by the department chair if they are identified as the candidate of choice to be recommended for appointment.
- Following a positive vote from the faculty and approval from the dean, the department will begin negotiations with the candidate.
- The chancellor's approval is needed before anything binding can be communicated to the potential employee. The review process for all appointments typically follows this track:
- Department
- College/school dean
- Committee on Academic Personnel, or CAP
- Ad Hoc Committee, if requested by CAP or other reviewers
- Vice-provost for Academic Personnel
- Executive vice-chancellor and provost
- Chancellor
When the university is prepared to complete the hiring process, the Office of Academic Personnel will prepare an appointment letter for distribution to the prospective employee. Successful candidates accept the appointment by signing the appointment letter and returning it the Office of Academic Personnel, then following up by completing employment documents.
