Personal contacts through professional organizations, training facilities, and colleagues at other institutions are usually the most effective networking resources. Personal contact with professional organizations requesting that the position announcement be shared with members, especially with any women's or minority caucuses is encouraged. Making personal contacts with the caucuses is most likely to result in applicants for positions. 

The following directories are designed to aid in recruitment of minority and female faculty.

• Directory of Ford Fellows  

• The Directory of Minority Ph.D. Recipients

• The 2002 CIC Directory of Women in Science and Engineering

• The Minority and Women Doctoral Directory is located in the Office of Affirmative Action, Browning Building, Room 7C.  Copies from the directory will be provided upon request.  

Electronic Addresses:  Listing position announcements on websites and list-serves specific to each department/position where potential applicants are likely to read because of their interest in the subject is also encouraged.  In addition, following are some general electronic resources that may provide to be a useful resource.

• Affirmative Action Register
  Publication Office
  8356 Olive Boulevard
  St. Louis, Missouri 63132
  (314) 991-1335, (800) 537-0655
  FAX (314) 997-1788
  E-mail: aareeo@concentric.net
  
  

• American Association of University Women
  Marketing Office
  1111 Sixteenth Street, N.W.
  Washington, DC 20036
  (202) 785-7774
  E-mail: ads@aauw.org  
  
  

• American College Personnel Association
  One Dupont Circle Suite 300
  Washington, DC 20036
  (202) 835-2272  
  
  

• The American Educational Research Association  
  1230 17th Street, N.W.
  Washington, DC 20036-3078
  (202) 223-9485  
  
  

• American Indian Science and Engineering Society
  5661 Airport Blvd.
  Boulder, CO 80301
  Contact: Dr. Phyllis Fife (fife@nsuok.edu) or
  Jan Grogan (grogan@nsuok.edu)
  
  

• Association for Asian Studies  
  1021 East Huron Street
  Ann Arbor, MI 48104
  Contact: Joan Dewey (jdewey@aasianst.org)
  
  

• Careers and the Disabled
  445 Broad Hollow Road, Suite 425
  Melville, NY 11747
  
  

• HigherEdJobs.com  
  200 Innovation Boulevard, Suite 205
  State College, PA 16803
  Posting or editing a position e-mail - Amy Hoover
  or phone (814) 861-3080
  
  

• Historically Black Colleges and Universities  
  
  

• Historically Hispanic Colleges and Universities  
  
  

• National Black MBA Association, Inc.  
  
  

• National Physical Science Consortium (NPSC)  
  
  

• National Society of Hispanic MBA's  
  
  

• The Academic Position Network  
  1655 124th Lane, NE  
  Blaine, MN 55449  
  E-mail: info@apnjobs.com  
  Voice: (763)767-5949 Fax: (763)767-5852
  
  

• The Spencer Foundation  
  875 N. Michigan Avenue  
  Suite 3930  
  Chicago, IL 60611-1803 
  (312) 337-7000  
  E-mail: fellows@spencer.org  
  
  

• University Faculty Voice  
  of the Nations Historically Black Colleges & Universities  
  P.O. Box 8387
  Houston, Texas 77288-8387
  (713) 521-1999
  agencyinfo@facultyvoice.com
  

In addition to advertisements in The Chronicle of Higher Education,  Diverse Issues in Higher Education, and journals published for specific disciplines, a search committee might consider placing advertisements for faculty in journals that target specific groups, such as:

• The Black Collegian Online  
  140 Carondelet Street  
  New Orleans, LA  70130  
  sales@black-collegiate.com
  (504) 523-0154
  
  

• The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education  
  210 Route 4 East, Suite 310  
  Paramus, NJ 07652 
  (201) 587-8800 x102 or x106
  
  

• Women in Higher Education  
  1934 Monroe Street  
  Madison, WI 53711  
  Mary Helen Conroy (career@wihe.com)
  (608) 251-3232

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