ABSTRACT
Recruitment and selection are the processes through which potential applicants receive encouragement to apply, are subsequently reviewed, and potentially admitted into a preparation program. This chapter explores recruitment components with examples from exemplar programs and then consider a process to align recruitment efforts to educational leadership faculty's graduate profile. It examines selection components with program examples followed by a suggested process to align selection to educational leadership faculty's graduate profile. While high-quality school leadership preparation programs can do much to ensure the production of high-quality leaders, recruitment has the potential to impact diversity and the range of candidates with potential for leadership who eventually apply to preparation programs. State policy further influences university-district partnerships with nine of fifty states mandating formal university-district partnerships that specifically require collaboration in recruitment and selection. Program recruitment can be viewed in two broad categories—closed recruitment and open recruitment.
