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Recruiting Faculty to Participate in College Governance

Understand the importance of recruiting faculty for college governance and learn effective principles and strategies for building diverse leadership. Topics include informal leadership gatherings, mentoring, and building diversity within committees. Engage in discussions on overcoming barriers and diversifying leadership on your campus.

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Recruiting Faculty to Participate in College Governance

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  1. Recruiting Faculty to Participate in College Governance Phil Smith, Facilitator; Brad Byrom; Phillip Maynard

  2. Why Is Recruiting Faculty for College Governance Important?

  3. Power of Diverse Leadership

  4. Power of Diverse Leadership • Richer Idea Generation • Better Representation of the Views of the Entire Faculty • More Effective Decision Making

  5. Power of Diverse Leadership • Continuity of Faculty Voice and Participation in Decision Making • Share the Workload/Reduce Burn-out • Serves as Important Check-and-Balance

  6. Some General Recruiting Principles

  7. Some General Recruiting Principles Be Authentic

  8. Some General Recruiting Principles Look for Shared Commitment to the College …And Complementary Skills

  9. Recruiting a Diverse Leadership • Be Authentic and Sincere • Engage with Specific Leadership Issues that Matter to the Person • Remove Structural Barriers to Service • Create Structures that Foster Inclusion • Provide a Continuum of Opportunities for Service

  10. Informal Leadership Gatherings

  11. Informal Leadership Gathering • Mixture of Faculty Currently Serving as Leaders with Interested and Potential New Leaders • Use of Personal Invitations • Informal But With a Theme • Emphasis on Building Camaraderie and Relationships • Long term versus short term

  12. INFORMAL Leadership GATHERING: THE INVITATION • Be welcoming to all • Encourage recipients to invite others who may be interested in leadership • Provide a meaningful opportunity for input into decision making • Include a follow up message directed at those who attended to encourage further involvement.

  13. Mentoring

  14. Mentoring • Nominate Potential New Leaders for Senate Leadership Retreats • Seek Nominations for Committee Assignments from the Senate as a Whole. Encourage senators to reach out to faculty with leadership potential as well as established leaders. • New Faculty Orientation • Assign Mentors to Newly Hired Faculty • Avoid Overuse of Acronyms and Other Technical Language • Establish Formal Successor Structures Such as Senate President-Elect.

  15. Building Diversity • Consider Term Limits or Committee Rotation Systems • Establish a Faculty Diversity Internship Program • Seek Nominations for Committee Assignments from the Senate as a Whole. Encourage senators to reach out to and include underrepresented faculty.

  16. Discussion • What barriers to recruiting new leaders have you experienced • on your campus?

  17. Discussion • What tactics have you or others on your campus used to successfully diversify leadership?

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