Hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions are high risk activities that, without proper care, can lead to lawsuits, unnecessary turnover, and added expense. In fact, the Harvard Business Review reports that “80% of turnover is due to bad hiring decisions” and that “it costs one third of a new hire’s annual salary to replace him or her.”

To make sure that doesn’t happen at your institution, purchase the Academy for Academic Leadership’s new webinar, “Avoiding Legal Landmines,” led by two highly experienced college administrators—one of them a juris doctor.

This must see webinar informs administrators how to avoid the most common “legal landmines” in hiring, promotion, and tenure decisions and addresses the most frequently asked questions about those processes, including:

• To what extent is the institution liable for the behavior of its representatives, including faculty members on search committees?
• What can you ask a candidate in an interview situation—and what can’t you ask?
• How can you tailor a job description to get the applicant pool you want?
• How can you identify candidates’ true strengths and weaknesses in an interview?
• What bearing do social networking sites have on an applicant’s candidacy?
• Can you go “off list” in checking applicants’ references?
• What hiring-related policies should your college have that it doesn’t already have?
• How does hiring adjuncts differ from hiring full-time faculty—and how can you hire the best adjuncts?
• How can department chairs and deans evaluate faculty more effectively?
• How do annual evaluations relate to promotion and tenure decisions?
• What are the limits of academic freedom, as it relates to employees’ behavior?
• How often should you update your policies and train administrators in the hiring, promotion, and tenure processes?

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Featured Presenters:

Debi Moon, J.D.
A graduate of the University of Tennessee and UT Law School, Debi Moon has served as the Assistant Vice President of Educational Affairs at Georgia Perimeter College, the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Director of the Center for Distance-Learning and as a Associate Professor of Business. She is the recipient of the National Teaching Excellence Award and was a Governor’s Teaching Fellow in the State of Georgia. In the last four years, her centers won the Best Practices Award for Academic Affairs from the University System of Georgia, placed in the top 10 finalists nationally for the Community Colleges Futures Assembly Bellwether Award, and she was awarded the national Wagner Award for Innovation for her work in faculty development in online learning.

Rob Jenkins, M.A.
Best known for his popular “Two-Year Track” columns in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Rob Jenkins has earned a national reputation as an advocate for community colleges and as an authority on two-year college issues. During his 23-year career—all spent at two-year schools—he has served as a part-time faculty member, a full-time faculty member, a department chair, an academic dean, and a program director. He is currently associate professor of English and director of The Writers Institute at Georgia Perimeter College, a large, multi-campus, urban/suburban community college in Atlanta. Rob holds a master’s degree in writing from the University of Tennessee, and his stories, essays, and poems have appeared in a number of outlets, including The Clearing House, Southern Poetry Review, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and The Gwinnett Daily Post. In recent years he has also come to be in some demand as a speaker, addressing faculty, staff, and student groups on a variety of two-year and four-year college campuses around the country.

Purchase CD of the Webinar

• Receive a complete recording of the “Avoiding Legal Landmines” webinar
• CD includes the recorded webinar showing all slides, audio voiceover, and Q&A. Also included is a PDF file of the individual slides.
• The price is $199 if you are unable to register for the webinar
• For webinar attendees, the price is $179
  (this offer and a special link to purchase the discounted CD
  will be shared with attendees upon registration and after the webinar)
  

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