Recruiting and Selecting Community College Faculty

Community College Business Faculty Recruitment: Association Between Personal Characteristics and Applicants' Rating of the Job

“…This study, which was based on an extensive review of the recruitment literature and considered both the private and education sectors, was an initial exploration of personal characteristics in the community college recruitment context. Findings from this research are important in light of the well-documented wave of retirements occurring among community college faculty members (Gibson-Benninger & Ratcliff, 1996;Higgins et al, 1994;Lawhon & Ennis, 1995;Miller, 1997;Opp & Smith, 1994;Schuster, 1995). Knowing which personal characteristics are associated with applicant attraction to position vacancies can aid recruiters in better targeting pools of potential applicants.…”

“…Kaplowitz (1986) summarized the importance of faculty recruitment to the success Finally, empirical research about community college faculty recruitment is essential at this time because ''as the children of the baby boomers reach college age, an enrollment surge is inevitable, [and] at the same time, large numbers of faculty will approach retirement'' (Miller, 1997, p. 84). This potential shortfall of quali ed community college faculty members has been well documented (Gibson-Benninger & Ratcliff, 1996;Higgins, Hawthorne, Cape, & Bell, 1994;Lawhon & Ennis, 1995;O'Banion, 1994;Opp & Smith, 1994;Schuster, 1995).…”

Business Feculty Recruitment: The Effects of Full-Time versus Part-Time Employment

“…a highly competitive enterprise (Barber, 1998;Gabert, 1994;Heneman, Judge, & Heneman, 2000). Because both public and private organizations compete with community colleges to acquire talented human capital (Gibson- Benninger & Ratcliff, 1996;Lawhon & Ennis, 1995), community colleges must develop recruitment programs that can succeed in a competitive labor market.…”

Community College Faculty Recruitment: Predictiors of Applicant Attraction to Faculty Positions

“…Also, as Lawhon and Ennis (1995) have observed, "Recruiting and selecting faculty members is a challenging, expensive, and time-consuming task for two-year institutions" (p. 349). Further, faculty recruitment is a pressing issue at present because there is high turnover within the national cadre of community college faculty, "primarily as a result of retirement" (Higgins, Hawthorn, Cape, & Bell, 1994, p. 27).…”

“…The applicant pool stage is critical to organizations because the hiring effort will fail if the individuals targeted for recruitment do not apply for the position (Rynes, 1991;Rynes, Heneman, & Schwab, 1980). The recruitment practice examined in this study was the formal faculty position announcement, a recruitment practice routinely used by community college officials in local print media, education journals, and national education print media such as Community College Times and The Chronicle ofHigher Education (Gibson-Benninger & Ratcliff, 1996;Lawhon & Ennis, 1995).…”