Information and Guidelines for Hiring and Retaining Dual-Career Couples

The University of Arizona's vision of becoming a preeminent student-centered research university depends upon sustaining its outstanding faculty and administrative leadership. To attract and retain faculty and administrators of the highest caliber, the University must be prepared to meet the many challenges and opportunities of the higher education marketplace. Dual-career couples represent both such a challenge and opportunity. The University's success in building and nurturing the faculty and administrative leadership it seeks will depend, in part, on its capacity to help dual-career couples meet their professional objectives.

Offering employment within the University for qualified spouses/partners, which is allowable under the University's Policy for Non-competitive Selections is one means toward that end. The following guidelines have been developed to assist the University community in negotiating these appointments. Although the particulars of each negotiation will be unique, the following guidelines are intended to provide a framework for a timely and successful effort.

Colleges and vice presidential areas may need to take certain additional steps to enable agreement among various parties to the hiring process.

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