Webinar Series: Making Academic Hiring Just: Key Insights for Academic Leaders, Search Committees, and Researchers

Extensive research examines the processes and practices that guide academic hiring. During this webinar, Leslie D. Gonzales, Dawn K. Culpepper, & Baili Park will discuss the findings of a conceptually-driven review of over 200 papers (e.g., empirical studies, gray papers, and commentaries) concerning academic hiring (Gonzales et al., 2024). The panelists will also discuss academic hiring through the lens of labor justice, a conceptual framework that seeks to remediate historical legacies of exclusion related to racism, genderism, among other isms while highlighting the intertwined interests of academics situated across varying ranks and appointment types. They will identify key labor justice issues that emerge across appointment types; outline key that administrators, search committees, and researchers should pose when implementing or studying academic recruitment and hiring; and identify justice-informed hiring practices that can be used across appointment types.

To learn more, take a look at the research:

• An Analysis of Academic Hiring Research and Practice and a Lens for the Future: How Labor Justice Can Make a Better Academy

• Making Hiring Just: Key Insights for Academic Leaders, Search Committees, and Researchers.

DATE: Thursday March 28, 2024

TIME: 3:00-4:00 PM EST

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Leslie D. Gonzales, Co-PI,

Professor of Higher Education & Department Head, University of Arizona

Dawn Culpepper,

Senior Personnel and Asst. Research Professor, UMCP

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Baili Park, University of Maryland,

M.A. Candidate:

Higher Education, Student Affairs, & International Education Policy