Patricia, You gave a very thoughtful and thorough response. I agree that there is a critical need for a job description. You cannot hold people accountable for completing tasks and responsibilities if you have not told them in writing what those tasks and responsibilities are. The best way to do that is with a well written job description. I am glad that you recognize the importance of this. My second comment relates to the teaching demo. I have usually done the teaching demo as you do. But as I think about our expectations of our faculty to engage our students, the lecture demonstration is not very effective for assessing their ability to engage. One way to make it more real is to either bring students into the teaching demo or to allow the candidate to guest lecture/teach a real class. I would love to see how they interact with the students. This will give you a good sense of both their ability to deliver a lesson as well as their interpersonal skills in engaging the students. Dr. Patricia Kapper