TITLE Faculty Recruitment and Retention: A Case Study of the Chair's Role. PUB DATE 2001-00-00

This document states that many studies have identified faculty recruitment as a specific job responsibility of college department chairs. Because the recruitment process is time consuming and costly, the chair must also ensure that recruitment leads to retention. This paper closely examines what strategies academic chairs use to recruit and retain faculty. This study sent a survey questionnaire to department heads at a community college in the southeastern United States. The data were based on 21 returned surveys (from a total of 25 sent out), which asked 4 questions concerning recruitment and retention of faculty: (1) What is the process of faculty recruitment? (2) What are the current measures utilized to retain newly hired faculty members? (3) What are the perceived challenges related to faculty recruitment? and (4) What are the perceived challenges related to faculty retention? The questions provided opportunities for open-ended responses. Word of mouth, local newspaper ads, and professional journa