How to Navigate the University Administrator Hiring Process
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this comprehensive and engaging course, you will be able to:
- Identify key university administrator positions within vs. outside of a college or school
- Review recent data on the number of annual job openings, career prerequisites, and demographics of university administrators
- Describe the 10-step hiring process for university administrators
- Identify when and where to search for and apply for university administrator positions
- Compare the advantages and disadvantages of applying for a university administrator position as an internal candidate
- Step-by-step write a successful Cover Letter and CV tailored for a university administrator position
- Answer the most commonly asked questions during consultation, screening, and campus interviews for university administrator positions
- Discuss effective contract negotiation strategies for university administrator positions
Instructor
Dian Squire, PhD served as Inaugural Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence and Associate Professor of Nursing at Loyola University Chicago. With over 19 years of administrative experience in academia, Dr. Squire received his PhD in Higher Education from LUC and his MA in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of Maryland College Park, where he later served as Assistant Director of Orientation and New Student Programs and created the country’s first LGBTQIA+ first-year experience program. Since that time, he has also been a visiting Assistant Professor at Iowa State University in the Higher Education and Student Affairs program and Program Coordinator of the Counseling-Student Affairs program at Northern Arizona University. Dr. Squire has held leadership roles for top professional associations such as being Director of Equity for ACPA-College Student Educators International’s governing board as well as multiple roles within the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). In addition to co-editing the recent book Campus rebellions and plantation politics: Privilege, and the emancipatory struggle in higher education (SUNY Press), he has also published numerous book chapters and peer-reviewed articles in leading journals such as Review of Educational Research, Harvard Educational Review, and International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education.
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