The Institutional Hiring Plan (IHP) is a single plan detailing all approved tenure-track searches for the following year’s hiring cycle. This year’s IHP process will result in the creation of the 2024 IHP, which will designate the tenure-track faculty searches for the 2024-25 academic year.
The Institutional Hiring Plan
The IHP is a primary component for determining the future excellence of the University of Oregon. It allows the university to keep strategic priorities at the forefront and gives direction to progress happening across campus. It is a roadmap to future scholarship and teaching excellence, as well as a tool for responsible budgeting and financial management.
Because of its importance to the university, the IHP is created through a collaborative process. Each college/school runs its own IHP proposal process to elicit proposals from the faculty, after which deans review their school/college’s proposals, and prioritize them before forwarding those proposals that warrant provost review. The provost will then finalize and announce the IHP, which will detail all approved tenure-track faculty searches. Final decisions related to the IHP are the responsibility of the provost.
Scope of the 2024 IHP
With a long-term goal of incremental growth of TTF, we hope to approve a number of searches that is slightly larger than last year. This is subject to change based on continuing analysis of our recurring resources.
It is expected that most new searches in the 2024 IHP will be funded at the level of assistant professor. Deans interested in hiring at the associate or full professor level will be required to work with the provost to identify resources to pay for the difference in salary.
Costs related to renovations and startup will also be considerations in decisions about the 2024 IHP.
Timeline
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Fall
- Deans initiate school/college engagement process for the IHP with the following requirements:
- Deans provide their units/departments with proposal templates or use the Office of the Provost template (see optional proposal template)
- All proposals limited to 2-3 pages in length
- Deans initiate school/college engagement process for the IHP with the following requirements:
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Winter
- Proposals reviewed by TTF faculty in each school/college per internal process
- Deans provide the Office of the Provost their recommendations by March 1 using the OtP outlined process
- Provost reviews with campus partners and holds individual meetings with the Deans
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Spring
- Final IHP published by OtP by April 2
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Spring-Summer
- Search plans developed and reviewed by Active Recruitment Team in preparation for AY24-25 hiring year
IHP Proposals
Unless the Dean decides otherwise, searches that remain pending from the 2023-24 search year and those that were discontinued due to insufficiently diverse applicant pools will generally be automatically considered for 2024 IHP consideration. Updated proposals will not be required for these positions.
Deadline
Please coordinate with the Dean of your school/college for all internal proposal and IHP deadlines. Deans are required to submit their recommendations to the Office of the Provost by March 1, 2024 through the OtP outlined process.