Recruiting, Evaluating, and Retaining Kinesiology Faculty Members

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Terry L. Rizzo
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1123/kr.2019-0038
Keywords:
development; evaluation; faculty recruitment; mentoring
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Volume 8: Issue 4
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283–290
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This paper offers direction and guidance to help departments develop fair and equitable search, evaluation, and retention strategies for their faculty. Included is how to attract a diverse candidate pool and successfully recruit diverse candidates. In addition, the paper provides guidelines about evaluating faculty members, emphasizing the need for formative evaluation that offers faculty ample opportunities, resources, and support systems for improving their performance before any summative evaluations administered by a department or college. Finally, the paper presents retention stratagems as guidelines to help departments support and retain their high-quality faculty members. Achieving the goals of recruitment, retention, and advancement requires the involvement and leadership of university officers, school deans, department chairs/heads, and faculty.

Rizzo is with California State University, San Bernardino, San Bernardino, CA. McCullagh is with California State University, East Bay, Hayward, CA. Pastore is with The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

Rizzo (trizzo@csusb.edu) is corresponding author.
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