What’s a PAR?

The PAR is the Prior Approval Request process required for the hiring of faculty. Before a formal offer of employment is made to any faculty candidate, the hiring unit must be formally granted permission to make that offer. The process of vetting faculty candidates by all required parties is the PAR system. The PAR defines the specific items that are needed for the recruitment and hiring of all types of faculty and how the candidates should be evaluated.

Since faculty are not hired directly in Workday as other employee types are, the PAR also serves as the system to collect data about the hire, which is then pushed to Workday by the Provost’s Office once the PAR has been approved.

For more information about the PAR, see the links below.

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