In support of the College’s Non-Discrimination and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy (“Policy”), the College will strive to undertake the following practices:
A. COMMUNICATION OF INFORMATION
The College will disseminate information about its Policy externally and internally in order to assure that employees and prospective employees are adequately informed and encouraged.
- External
The College will seek out and contract appropriate community organizations, including under-represented group organizations, regarding its employment needs.
The College will identify itself as an equal opportunity employer in all advertising of positions.
The College will use for job referral purposes only employment agencies and organizations that do not discriminate in making referrals.
- Internal
Handbooks for faculty and staff will contain the statement of Policy.
The Policy will be included in employee orientation programs.
- Other Communications
Copies of this Policy will be made available to all appropriate groups within Ursinus College, including the Board of Trustees, faculty, and other staff members who may be involved in the employing process.
B. OBTAINING QUALIFIED APPLICANTS
When positions become open, the College will take steps to post these positions both internally and externally to support a broad level of advertising and networking. This allows for a strong candidate pool that will include all qualified applicants including those from under-represented groups. There are four categories of positions: full-time faculty, part-time faculty, administrative staff positions, and support staff positions.
Specific steps may be taken based upon the position:
—-Posting on the College’s website
—-Posting on the external websites including Indeed.com, HERC, higheredjobs.com, and others
—-Advertising in external publications such as recruiting publication, professional journals, publications of the discipline, newspapers, listing with certain placement services and bureaus and appropriate graduate and/or professional schools
All positions submitted to Oracle (which is our online application process for all jobs) feeds automatically to Indeed.com, which is a job search engine that virtually anyone can access from anywhere. This multi-dimensional approach creates a strong pool and is available to all groups of applicants. Should the candidate pool be weak, the Human Resources office will partner with hiring managers and search committee chairs as applicable to consider and implement additional recruitment methodologies.
C. RECORD KEEPING
All applications for all positions will be kept on file for a period of one year.
D. POSITION SPECIFICATIONS
Job descriptions will be reviewed to ensure that the requirements in themselves do not constitute inadvertent discrimination and that specifications are free of bias. Job descriptions must be submitted during the new job request approval process and reviewed by HR prior to the final approval.
All persons involved in the recruitment, screening, selection, and promotion process will have access to position specifications.