Best Practices for Hiring of Teaching Track Faculty Members

The current hiring landscape for teaching faculty is a perfect storm, where two issues—(1) increasing demand but a lack of trained candidates and (2) highly diverse job expectations—combine to create a job search that can be overwhelming for teaching faculty candidates and disappointing for departments of computing. As departments independently navigate this new reality, they have each come up with their own practices for interviewing and screening teaching faculty candidates. This proliferation of hiring practices has made it increasingly difficult for teaching faculty candidates to identify positions that are a good fit and prepare adequately for the diversity of hiring practices. In response to these challenges, the Computing Research Association - Education committee surveyed faculty across Canada and the USA about their hiring practices. This work culminated in a recent white paper “Best Practices for Hiring Teaching Faculty in Research Computing Departments.” Panelists will engage with the recommendations from this recent paper, discuss principles underlying some best practices for the hiring process, and field questions from the audience.