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Recruitment Information

Recruitment Services for Staff and Faculty

The graduate recruitment team serves as the college liaison to The Graduate School. They organize college-specific events, coordinate divisional academic sessions for daily visits and represent and coordinate participation at off-campus events.

They also offer a number of other services to our faculty, staff and community partners at the college, department and major level.

General Support

  • Recruitment and informational webinars
  • Diversity grant proposal assistance
  • Recruitment best practices workshops
  • Targeted print materials
  • Short- and long-term recruitment campaigns
  • Targeted email outreach

Graduate Student Recruitment and Retention

  • Design and composition of printed materials for grad programs
  • Best practices in recruitment
  • Strategies for recruitment and retention of URM populations
  • Workshop and support system development
  • Assistance with grant applications such as REU, R25, and others related to diversity and recruitment

Postdoctoral Scholar Support

  • Resource for ASC postdocs
  • ASC representative in the Postdoctoral Advisory Council
  • Liaison to the PDA
  • Assist with the recruitment of postdocs

For Graduate Student Recruitment and Postdoctoral Scholar Support, please contact Brian Orefice, Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies, at orefice.1@osu.edu.