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Faculty Recruitment & Appointment

The following are resources for departments & programs to use when recruiting new faculty members. Please contact Jinger Hickman, Director of Faculty Personnel Services, with any faculty recruitment & appointment questions you may have.

Recruitment Resources, Overviews

University Human Resources: Faculty Search Guide
A&S Recommended Faculty Recruitment Responsibilities Overview (in and out of WorkDay) [pdf]
Updated January 2026 

Tenured & Tenure Eligible Appointments

Teaching Faculty (TF) & Visiting Teaching Faculty (VTF) Appointments

Postdoctoral Research Fellow Appointments

Affiliate Appointments

A&S Faculty Affiliate Request Form Procedures [pdf]
A&S Faculty Affiliate Request Form [DocuSign]: used to initiate external faculty affiliate appointments for non-employees who hold credentials equivalent to W&M Faculty. Also used for A&S internal Instructor of Record affiliation requests for current employees.

Appointment Forms and Procedures

Faculty Appointment Form Procedures [pdf]: refer to this guide for information regarding form routing.
Full-time Faculty Appointment Form (FAF) [DocuSign]

Adjunct/Summer Faculty Appointment Form (FAF) [DocuSign]