Search committees are typically established to fill major University central administrative positions. The positions to which this section of the protocol is addressed include the following:*

President**
Executive Vice President and Provost
Senior Vice President
Vice President
Associate/Assistant Vice President
Chancellor
Provost
Associate/Assistant Provost
Vice Provost
Associate/Assistant Vice Provost
Dean of the Graduate School
General Counsel
University Librarian
Director of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action
Director, Intercollegiate Athletics (Twin Cities campus)

Members of search committees for these positions, and their chairs, shall be chosen by the appointing authority after consultation with appropriate Senate committees, as follows.

The appointing authority shall ask the Faculty Consultative Committee and Student Senate Consultative Committee, or other appropriate committee (as set out in Section III of this protocol) to submit, by a specified date, names of the faculty and students who should serve on the search committee. The number of individuals nominated should be greater than the number who will serve on the search committee (perhaps twice as large), in order to allow for those who decline to serve and to provide the appointing authority some flexibility in the choices. The appointing authority will select the search committee from among those individuals or will explain to the Senate committee why the search committee membership deviated from the list of individuals nominated. The Faculty and Student Senate Consultative Committees may also identify the names of other individuals (who are not faculty or students) who the appointing authority may wish to consider selecting for search committee membership.

If the Senate committees are unable to provide names to the appointing authority by the date specified, he or she may proceed to appoint the search committee without Senate committee consultation. It is assumed the Senate committee would be given at least two weeks notice of the need for nominees to the search committee.

The Faculty Consultative Committee and the President or other administrator may agree that identification of faculty members for other administrator search committees is appropriate; this protocol should also be followed in such instances. The same is true for the Student Senate Consultative Committee.

II. Committee Responsibility for Interviews

The following Senate committees will be given the opportunity to participate in nomination of search committee members and in interviews of candidates for the positions noted, in accord with the provisions of Section III of this protocol. Interviews with committees will be scheduled irrespective of the scope of the search (full, limited, or non-competitive appointment); in the case of non-competitive appointments, the committee will be given the opportunity to interview the candidate before the position has been offered to the candidate.

Faculty Consultative:	President; all vice presidencies (executive, senior, and those without preceding adjective); Provost; Dean of the Graduate School; Dean and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education; the General Counsel; Director of Equal Opperunity and Affirmative Action; Chancellors; Directors of Athletics [Twin Cities campus]; others as the President may request
Student Senate Consultative:	President; all vice presidencies (executive, senior, and those without preceding adjective); Provost; Dean of the Graduate School; Dean and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education; the General Counsel; Director of Equal Opperunity and Affirmative Action; Chancellors; Directors of Athletics [Twin Cities campus]; others as the President may request
Information Technologies:	Chief Information Officer; University Librarian
Educational Policy:	Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost; Dean and Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education; Dean of the Graduate School
Faculty Affairs:	Vice president for human resources
Finance and Planning:	Vice President for Finance; associate/assistant vice presidents in Budget and Finance; Controller
Advisory Committee on Athletics:	Director of Athletics [Twin Cities campus]
Faculty Academic Oversight Committee for Intercollegiate Athletics:	Director of Athletics [Twin Cities campus]
Judicial Committee:	General Counsel
Library:	University Librarian; Chief Information Officer
Research:	Vice President for Research; Dean of the Graduate School; Assistant/associate vice president, Sponsored Projects Administration
Student Affairs:	Vice Provost for Student Affairs

Note: The Faculty Consultative Committee may draw on former FCC members to participate in the interviewing process. The Student Senate Consultative Committee may designate student representatives (other than members of the SSCC) to participate in the interview process.

It is understood that committee interviews, especially during the summer or when scheduled on short notice, may not involve a majority of committee members or consistent representation for several candidates. It is not the intent of this protocol that the hiring process be slowed or hindered by the possible unavailability of committee members. The committee interviews are scheduled to give committee members the opportunity [underlined in original] to participate in the search process; if they are unavailable or do not attend, the hiring process should nonetheless go forward.

1. The committee will be supplied, in advance of the interview, copies of the position description and the curriculum vitae of each candidate.

2. The committee will assemble and discuss, in advance of the arrival of the candidate, how it wishes to conduct the interview.

3. The candidate will meet with the committee.

4. The candidate will depart; the committee will then meet in closed session to discuss the candidate(s) and to decide upon its comments or recommendation to the appointing authority.

5. These comments or recommendation, including any minority or dissenting views, will be submitted as quickly as possible to the appointing authority. The committee's views (with minority or dissenting views) will be submitted as a single document, prepared by the chair or his or her designee, rather than as individual responses to the appointing authority.

6. The Faculty Consultative Committee and the President or other administrators may determine that faculty participation in interviews with candidates for other positions is desirable; FCC may delegate responsibility for participating in such interviews to other committees of the Senate or the Assembly. FCC may also designate additional committees or individual faculty members to participate in any interviews. The same is true for the Student Senate Consultative Committee.

7. When more than one committee is appropriately involved in candidate interviews, the committees may schedule a joint session.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY

**The selection of the University President is the legal responsibility of the Board of Regents and the search committee for this office is drawn from the members of the Board. This committee has customarily involved the Senate Consultative Committee in the search, either relying on SCC to act as a search advisory committee or asking SCC to appoint such an advisory committee. It is presumed that this practice would continue.