Hiring Practices

• Do not automatically refill vacant or vacated positions
• Delay, for a limited time, replacement of full-time faculty who retire or leave
• Hire more staff who are technically qualified and who are able to handle more functions
• Administratively control all full-time faculty hiring
• Buy back early retirees on a part-time basis to teach large classes
• Develop online candidate or applicant tracking system
• Develop cost-effective methods to process personnel requests
• Furnish substitute teachers for illness or death only
• Hire managers with greater experience in their area of responsibility
• Reduce overtime by hiring part-time or short-term help to cover vacant full-time, classified positions
• Improve the manager training process for the hiring of classified employees
• Standardize the training process for search and selection committees
• Restrict employees from returning as “consultants” at higher pay
• Survey and audit all job descriptions; develop generic job classifications
• Use more part-time teachers
• Use more volunteer teachers
• Use students as graders and clerks
• Establish more work-study programs for students in lieu of permanent employees, wherever part-time work is a viable option

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
- Publilius Syrus