Title: Scheduling faculty for lunch and dinner meetings with candidates during campus visits

Authors: Ardavan Asef-Vaziri; Ahmad Vessal; Amir Gharehgozli

Addresses: David Nazarian College of Business and Economics, California State University, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA, 91330, USA ' David Nazarian College of Business and Economics, California State University, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA, 91330, USA ' David Nazarian College of Business and Economics, California State University, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA, 91330, USA

Abstract: Hiring talented faculty is key to student success. A crucial step in hiring faculty during the campus visits is to give both faculty and candidates to meet. To achieve this, hiring departments prepare a schedule for one-to-one meetings. Furthermore, there are meetings over lunch and dinner. We propose a model to schedule faculty for lunch and dinner. Throughout a case study, we investigate the impact of several constraints. The problem is implemented in MS Excel®, which is straightforward and can be used by search and screen committees. Furthermore, it can be embedded in the teaching materials of a Prescriptive Analytics course to discuss how a model is gradually developed.

Keywords: campus visit; scheduling faculty; lunch and dinner; excel implementation; teaching case.

DOI: 10.1504/IJDS.2022.124353

International Journal of Data Science, 2022 Vol.7 No.1, pp.44 - 59

Received: 29 Sep 2021
Accepted: 13 Jan 2022
Published online: 25 Jul 2022 *

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