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Search Process and Transitioning to the Provost

Becoming a Provost Academy Closing Seminar July 20, 2017 Karl Kunkel, Provost February 2016 - present kkunkel@semo.edu

• Crucial for Success

– being hired – in position

• Institutional Type
• With President

HIGH STAKES AND HIGH RESPONSIBILITY JOB – COULD BE MISERABLE IF NOT A GOOD FIT.

“FIT”

1) Selecting positions for applications 2) Preparing application materials 3) Neutral site interview 4) On-campus interview 5) Offer and negotiations

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• Fit with Institutional Type
• Job Ad Sources
• Search Firm Contacts
• Chronicle Jobs
• Various other sources (i.e. CCAS Job Posting, Higher Ed Jobs)

Select Selecting ing Positions

• sitions for A
• r Applica

pplication tion

• Nomination vs. self-application
• Administrative vita
• CUSTOMIZED cover letter for SPECIFIC position

– Vita about you; letter about your fit for position

• Getting past the “paper review”

App pplica lication tion Ma Mater terials ials

• Initial call from search consultant (if used).
• Screening for Search Committee.

Sear Search h Pr Process

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• Learn as much as possible prior to interview
• Meeting with search committee (60 – 90 minutes)
• Separate meeting with President (30 – 60 minutes)
• Conducted for ten (or so) applicants
• Structured questions from committee
• Committee/President to determine three-to-five

applicants for on-campus interviews

Neutral Site (“Airport”) Interview

• Inform your supervisor!!
• Two days
• Meeting with various campus stakeholders
• Endurance
• Open forums
• Dinners (advise NO ALCOHOL)
• MEETING WITH PRESIDENT

– All groups ADVISORY to President

• BE YOURSELF  FIT

On On-Campus Campus Inter Interview view

• Selecting a cabinet member
• Complete discretion
• President’s perception of fit
• Competition VERY STIFF at this level
• Be patient waiting for response
• Search consultant usually keeps candidates informed

President’s Decision

• Search consultant usually discusses basic terms early
• salary, start date, etc.
• Other issues to consider
• rank and tenure
• vacation time
• start date
• moving allowance
• return to faculty salary
• possible negotiable aspects of benefits package
• don’t be concerned about equipment or travel funds
• Institution Might Want Quick Response

Of Offer er an and Ne d Nego gotia tiation tions

• Provost turn-over at institution
• Staffing in Provost’s Office
• Collective bargaining environment
• Other cabinet members (perception of President)
• Faculty leadership perception of institution
• Dean’s attitudes and length of service

Other Consider Other Considerations tions

• Leadership style
• Autonomy
• President’s background (academic vs. non-academic)
• Length of President’s time at institution
• President’s reputation in current and previous positions
• President’s vision for stability or change
• President’s view on quality of academic programs

Your

• ur Fit

Fit with Pr with Presid esiden ent

• Learning a new institution (vocabulary, history, structure, processes,

relationships, etc.)

– Request each unit submit short overview

• mission
• programs
• strengths
• challenges
• Moving “full steam ahead.”
• making decisions
• administering academic affairs
• reporting to the President
• Impact on personal life and family

– logistics of moving – partner’s career – children

Transition ansition to to Pr Provost P

• st Positi
• sition:
• n: Exter

External nal Hir Hire

• Provost position entails:

– busier than you ever thought possible – back-to-back meetings, on widely varying topics, on most days – responding to endless emails – plethora of diverse issues, complaints, decisions – becoming versed in every discipline – running a division (forms, deskwork, reports, daily decisions) – dealing with issues that don’t always have clear choices – working long days, hours most evenings, and on weekends – “Intersection of faculty expectations and presidential aspirations

Tran ansition sition to to Pr Provost

• st Positio
• sition

Search Process and Transitioning to the Provost

Karl Kunkel kkunkel@semo.edu

QUESTIONS AND DISCUSSION