Support for Faculty Appointments

This section of the Faculty Affairs space primarily supports faculty hiring processes. In addition, templates for reappointment letters can be found here.

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Appointment and Reappointment Letters

Access to templates for appointment and reappointment letters is limited to approved users and you must be logged in to view them. If you do not have access and you think you should, please ask the budget director or other senior administrator in your dean's office who will then request access by emailing facultyaffairs@syr.edu.

Faculty Hiring and Inclusive Excellence

Support for inclusive searching and equitable faculty hiring is available through both an online toolkit and workshops offered by Faculty Affairs.

Each online (Zoom) workshop consists of two parts for a total of 90 minutes.

Part 1: Countering Patterns and Norms that surround faculty hiring. In this part (approximately 35 minutes), participants will review tips and share strategies for writing better job descriptions, how to make skills related to diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility a feature of the position, and rethinking strategies for recruitment and outreach, including how to expand social and professional networks.
Part 2: Identifying and Mitigating Common Biases In this part (approximately 55 minutes), participants will demonstrate an understanding of biases that are common in evaluative tasks, as well as strategies to identify and mitigate their effects.

If you cannot attend for the full 90 minutes at one time, you can complete the parts of the workshop on different days. To do so, please register for two sessions, below.

Registration is required. Please register at least three business days in advance.