Faculty Hiring, Mentoring and Tenure
Dual Career Couple Program
The contact person in the Provost's office for this hiring category is Vice Provost Steve Stern (2-5246). Department chairs should contact Steve if you have questions or wish to initiate a dual career/spousal hire. Department chairs should contact your dean or designated associate dean to obtain approval to make a request for Strategic Hiring funds. (See Faculty Strategic Hiring Initiative memo, for details.)
Increasingly, university professionals are part of dual-career couples. Thus, decisions to accept a university position are often made based on the availability of employment for a spouse or partner. The university, recognizing this fact, makes these Dual Career Hire funds available for departments to help find employment for talented spouses/partners of candidates being hired for position vacancies.
Dual Career Couple Hire funding may be used to support a faculty, academic staff, or classified staff position for the spouse/partner of a new faculty member. The usual split is one-third Strategic Hire Fund, one-third the department doing the first faculty hire, and one-third the department hiring the spouse/partner. Strategic Hire Funding goes to the department hiring the spouse/partner for the percent of salary and number of years requested (ordinarily three), after which time the salary responsibility is fully that of the department that hired the spouse/partner.
A checklist for the Dual Career Couple Program provides detailed steps to follow to obtain these funds.
Further information regarding dual career couple hiring can be found in the Search Handbook for Faculty, Academic Staff and Limited Appointments, within the chapter on "The Offer".