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Graduate Resources
Department of History
Graduate Student Involvement in Faculty Searches
September 2007
Details of faculty searches are announced to the GHA
president/secretary by the Department Chair or ADA. The
message should contain the specific search and semester concerned, and names
and dates. This message instructs interested students to reply to the GHA
President/secretary. GHA president/secretary sends this message directly
to the grad list (via the GA), calling for volunteers to serve on the search
committee.
These self-selected students constitute a committee, names
of whom are then forwarded to Department Chair/ADA. At this point, the
Chair/ADA gives the list to the search chair.
The search chair and relevant faculty in the field then have the option
of asking additional students to serve, and to recommend a chair/coordinator of
the student committee, if the committee has not done so already.
(Faculty in the field can recommend that a particular student not take
on the extra work of serving on a committee, if such extra work would conflict
with other obligations.)
Search chairs then arrange meetings/etc. with this grad
student committee as the search proceeds.
Precisely when and how the students become involved is left up to the
search chair, although at a minimum the grad students are to read the
publications of the individuals invited to campus, attend the candidate
lectures, and meet with the candidate.
After the graduate student committee meets meet with the candidate, they will draw
up a memo or comments (or simply meet with the faculty search committee) to
provide feedback. If desired, students can select one person to draft the
memo/comments, but it would be circulated for all to sign off on. The Chair/Coordinator of the student
committee will be responsible for submitting the report in a timely manner.
The grad student chair also collects responses from all
students who attended talks or read the candidates’ publications by sending an
e-mail to all graduate students, asking for responses to the candidates.
In short:
Publicize all searches and schedules to the graduate students.
Allow students to volunteer (through the Grad Student
Listserv) for service on a particular search committee.
Allow faculty input into the makeup of that committee.
Faculty search chair and grad student committee establish the nature of the grad
student committee’s participation in searches.
Appoint a chair of the committee.
Student committee reports to faculty search committee.
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