FACULTY APPOINTMENT APPLICATION 955 La Paz Road Santa Barbara, CA Phone: (805) Fax: (805)

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1 FACULTY APPOINTMENT APPLICATION 955 La Paz Road Santa Barbara, CA Phone: (805) Fax: (805) Teaching Field Name Last First Initial Address Street City State Zip Cell Phone Business Phone Other Numbers Address Social Security No. How did you hear about this position? Are you known to schools/references by another name?!yes! No If yes, by what name? Date: Have you filed an application or been employed here before?!yes! No Date(s) & Position(s) Do any of your friends or relatives work here?!yes! No If yes, list name(s)/relationship(s) Can you, after employment, submit verification of your legal right to work in the United States?!Yes! No VITAE INFORMATION: Please enclose a copy of an updated vita including standard information (education, previous employment, professional memberships, and professional papers and publications) as well as information regarding church involvement and denominational preference. Also please list 3-5 references (including phone numbers) who can address both professional competence and personal qualities. PERSONAL STATEMENTS: Please make three brief (one to two page) statements describing: 1. Your personal relationship with Jesus Christ 2. Your philosophy of Christian liberal arts education 3. Your view of the relationship between your faith and your professional/scholarly work The College does require that all full-time faculty indicate full agreement with the Articles of Faith (see page 4) and support the standards enumerated in the statement on Community Life (pages 2-3). Feel free to enclose with the application any items which would assist us in understanding your strengths as a scholar, instructor, or community member. Signature Date Westmont College does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, color, sex, national or ethnic origin, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, mental or physical disability in its employment practices, except where physical fitness is a valid occupational qualification. As allowed by federal and state law, Westmont chooses to exercise religious preference in all areas that it deems appropriate for its mission.

2 COMMUNITY LIFE STATEMENT Living in Community When Jesus Christ summed up the way His followers were to treat each other, He said, "Love one another as I have loved you," and "Love your neighbor as yourself." On a college campus, this kind of love must take into consideration the relationship between learning and community. Affirming the qualities of this relationship is vital. As students, staff, and professors learn to live together, we recognize the dual manifestations of love in justice and mercy. We attempt to work out what it means to live justly and mercifully in common agreements such as this one. We understand that life in a college will give priority and honor to the wise development of the mind. Given this focus, our social and intellectual growth needs freedom for exploration complemented by a commitment to good will and graciousness. Personal discipline is also required. For example, civility is basic to all types of community, while academic honesty and respect for education are fundamental to an instructional environment. Learning depends on truth-centered attitudes. It thrives in an atmosphere of discriminating openness to ideas, a condition that is characterized by a measure of modesty toward one s own views, the desire to affirm the true, and the courage to examine the unfamiliar. As convictions are expressed, one enters into the "great conversation" of collegiate life, a task best approached with a willingness to confront and be confronted with sound thinking. Community is built upon other-centered practices. It flourishes in a place where love for God and neighbor is cultivated and nurtured. It grows strong when members practice integrity, confession, and forgiveness, attempt to live in reconciled relationships, accept responsibility for their actions and words, and submit to biblical instructions for communal life. Scripture supports these attitudes and principles. It promotes relationships based on the ideals of trust, compassion, and forbearance, and praises actions that manifest sacrificial giving and sincere faith. Scripture also forbids attitudes such as pride and jealousy, and prohibits such actions as drunkenness, sexual promiscuity, and dishonesty. In keeping with these standards, the Westmont community has agreed to certain guidelines in the Student, Staff, and Faculty Handbooks. Desiring to implement the teachings of Christ, Westmont encourages true fellowship, in the whole body of Christ, including the local church, for when we love each other we imitate Christ s love for us. As we seek to follow God in truth, certain choices make for greater peace: a respect for others as they make decisions contrary to ours, a readiness to listen carefully to those who represent situations or cultures unfamiliar to us, and a concern for how our preferences affect the lives of those around us. We are committed to inquiry as well as pronouncement, rigorous study as well as kindred friendship, challenging teaching as well as reflective learning. Sometimes these tensions will lead to conflict. To live in unity, we must set ourselves to the practical task of discerning daily how to love well, how to inflesh the biblical call to justice and mercy. As we do so, our life together at Westmont will begin to resemble the community God has envisioned for us. Behavioral Expectations The Westmont community chooses, freely and willingly, to impose upon itself rules for behavior which serve both the long range interests of the institution and the immediate good of its individual members. While we do not view these expectations as an index to maturity in Christ, we do regard violations as a serious breach of integrity within the community because each member has voluntarily chosen to associate with it and to accept its standards. The college establishes the following specific expectations for the trustees, administration, faculty, staff, and students of the Westmont community: The college does not condone practices that Scripture forbids. Such activities include but are not limited to occult practices, drunkenness, theft, profanity, and dishonesty. Such activities also include sexual relations outside of marriage and homosexual practice. Westmont further recognizes that Scripture condemns "sins of the spirit" such as covetousness, jealousy, pride, and lust. By their very nature, these sins are more difficult to discern. Because they lie at the heart of the relationship between the individual and God they

3 are of central concern to the Westmont community. The college upholds integrity as a core value of the community. Members are expected to take responsibility for their own violations of all behavioral guidelines and demonstrate commitment to the value of integrity in word and deed. The college is committed to providing a learning and work environment free of harassment. The college upholds the laws of the local community, the nation, and the state of California. Such laws include prohibitions against possession or use of illegal drugs or drug paraphernalia, against purchasing or consuming alcoholic beverages by persons under the age of 21, drunkenness, and driving under the influence of alcohol. married, to strive to maintain healthy family relationships. The college recognizes that the use of tobacco products and alcoholic beverages presents a danger to personal health. It condemns their abuse, and raises questions about the use of tobacco and alcohol. Under no circumstances shall any member of the community use or possess these products on campus or when attending a college-related student activity. Westmont will establish other rules and regulations necessary for orderly community life and will list them in appropriate handbooks. You will find information which further explains the specifics of the Behavioral Expectations above in the section of the Student Handbook on Westmont policies. The college expects our members who choose to marry to abide by the commitment to lifelong heterosexual marriage, and, whether single or

4 Westmont College is a liberal arts college committed to Jesus Christ and belonging to the worldwide evangelical Protestant tradition. In that tradition, the college s trustees, administrators, and faculty participate in many different churches and with them confess such historic statements of the church as the Apostles Creed and the Nicene Creed. In faithfulness to God, who is the source of truth, and under the authority of Scripture, we joyfully and humbly affirm the following articles of faith, which guide our learning, teaching, and living. ARTICLES OF FAITH We believe in God The Lord our God alone is God, holy and loving, revealing in creation and in Jesus Christ God s own power and glory, grace and mercy. The Lord our God alone is God, just and true, perfect in being and trustworthy in action. The Lord our God is infinite and beyond imagination; our minds can never fully know God nor our hearts completely grasp his ways. The Lord our God is faithful and steadfast, unfailing in word and deed. The Lord our God is Triune one being in three persons Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in co-equal, co-eternal communion. The Lord our God, Creator and Sustainer of all that is, redeems the world from its fallenness and consummates his saving work in a new heaven and a new earth.... the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit God the Father is the source of all that is good. He is Father to his eternal Son, Jesus Christ, and to all who are adopted as his sons and daughters through faith in Jesus Christ. He has sovereignty over us, affection toward us, and glory for us. God the Son became incarnate in Jesus Christ one person in two natures, fully human and fully divine who was conceived by the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. In his life and in his death on the cross he conquered the powers of darkness, paid the penalty for our sin, and demonstrated God s love for the world. In his bodily resurrection his life and death are vindicated, and he is revealed to be the only judge and redeemer of the world. He intercedes for us now before the Father and will return in glory. God the Holy Spirit is Lord and Life-Giver, the one who empowered Jesus Christ and who empowers his people to continue God s work today. God the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin, brings us to faith in Jesus Christ, and conforms us to the image of Christ. The Spirit inspired the authors of Scripture and guides the church in faithful translation and interpretation. The Bible, consisting of the Old and New Testaments, is God-breathed and true, without error in all that it teaches; it is the supreme authority and only infallible guide for Christian faith and conduct teaching, rebuking, and training us in righteousness.... the Author of our salvation God created humankind for unbroken relationship with God, one another, and the rest of creation. Through Adam s disobedience, we fell into sin and now suffer alienation and brokenness. The effects of sin are so pervasive that apart from God s grace we are lost and dead. Only by God s grace through faith in Jesus Christ are we saved and made alive. In bringing us to faith in Jesus Christ, the Spirit incorporates us into the body of Christ, his church, the community of all believers in heaven and on earth. The church is called to bear witness to Christ among the nations by praising God, preaching the good news, discipling believers, healing the sick, serving the poor, setting free the oppressed, and caring for creation. The gifts and fruit of the Holy Spirit empower the church for this mission. Jesus Christ will return one day in his glorified body to judge the living and the dead. Those who do not believe in him will be raised to suffer forever a just punishment. Those who believe in him will be transformed, their bodies raised imperishable and incorruptible, to live and reign with him forever in a new heaven and a new earth in which there will be all that is good and true and beautiful, but no sorrow, no tears, and no evil thing. And so we pray: Come, Lord Jesus. I agree with the above Articles of Faith. Signed Date

5 HireRight Background Check Authorization of Background Investigation I have carefully read and understand this Disclosure and Authorization form and the attached summary of rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. By my signature below, I consent to preparation of background reports by a consumer reporting agency such as HireRight Inc. Background Check and to the release of such background reports to the college and its designated representatives and agents, for the purpose of assisting the college in making a determination as to my eligibility for employment, promotion, retention or for other lawful employment purposes. I understand that if the college hires me, my consent will apply, and the college may, as allowed by law, obtain additional background reports pertaining to me, without asking for my authorization again, throughout my employment from HireRight and/or other consumer reporting agencies. I understand that information contained in my employment application, or otherwise disclosed by me before or during my employment, if any, may be used for the purpose of obtaining and evaluating background reports on me. I also understand that nothing herein shall be construed as an offer of employment. I hereby authorize all of the following, without limitation, to disclose information about me to the consumer reporting agency and its agents: law enforcement and all other federal, state and local agencies, learning institutions (including public and private schools, colleges and universities), testing agencies, information service bureaus, credit bureaus, record/data repositories, courts (federal, state and local), motor vehicle records agencies, my past or present employers, the military, and all other individ uals and sources with any information about or concerning me. The information that can be disclosed to the consumer reporting agency and its agents includes, but is not limited to, information concerning my employment and earnings history, education, credit history, motor vehicle history, criminal history, military service, professional credentials and licenses. By my signature below, I also certify the information I provided on and in connection with this form is true, accurate and complete. I agree that this form in original, faxed, photocopied or electronic (including electronically signed) form, will be valid for any background reports that may be requested by or on behalf of the college. California, Minnesota or Oklahoma applicants only: Please check this box if you would like to receive (whenever you have such right under the applicable state law) a copy of your background report if one is obtained on you by the Company. Applicant Last Name: First: Middle Signature: Date: Signature of Parent or Guardian (applicants under age 18) Identifying Information for Consumer Reporting Agency: Other Names Used: Years Used Currrent Address Dates: Former Address: Dates: Social Security Number*: Daytime Phone Number: Address: Driver s License Number: State of Issuance *This information will be used only for background screening purposes and will not be taken into consideration in any employment decisions.

6 Westmont College! CONSUMER DISCLOSURE AND AUTHORIZATION FORM Disclosure Regarding Background Investigation Westmont College ( the college ) may request, for lawful employment purposes, background information about you from a consumer reporting agency in connection with your employment or application for employment. This background information may be obtained in the form of consumer reports and/or investigative consumer reports (commonly known as background reports ). An investigative consumer report is a background report that includes information from personal interviews (except in California, where that term includes background reports with or without information obtained from personal interviews), the most common form of which is checking personal or professional references. These background reports may be obtained at any time after receipt of your authorization and, if you are hired by the college, throughout your employment, as allowed by law. HireRight Inc. Background Check or another consumer reporting agency, will prepare or assemble the background reports for the college. HireRight is located at 5151 California Avenue, Irvine, CA U.S.Aand can be contacted by at documentation@hireright.com or by phone at (866) Information about HireRight s privacy practices is available at Compliance.aspx The background report may contain information concerning your character, general reputation, personal characteristics, mode of living and (in limited circumstances), credit standing. The types of information that may be obtained include, but are not limited to: social security number verifications; address history; credit reports and history; criminal records and history; public court records; driving records; accident history; worker s compensation claims; bankruptcy filings; educational history verifications (e.g., dates of attendance, degrees obtained); employment history verifications (e.g., dates of employment, salary information, reasons for termination, etc.); personal and professional references checks; professional licensing and certification checks and other information bearing on your character, general reputation, personal characteristics, mode of living and credit standing. This information may be obtained from private and public record sources, including, as appropriate: government agencies and courthouses; educational institutions; former employers; and, for investigative consumer reports, personal interviews with sources such as neighbors, friends, former employers and associates; and other information sources. If the college should obtain information bearing on your credit worthiness, credit standing or credit capacity for reasons other than as required by law, then the college will use such credit information to evaluate whether you would present an unacceptable risk of theft or other dishonest behavior in the job for which you are being evaluated. You may request more information about the nature and scope of an investigative consumer report, if any, by contacting the college. A summary of your rights under the Fair Credit Reporting Act, as well as certain state-specific notices, are provided below. ADDITIONAL STATE LAW NOTICES Because you are an applicant in the state listed below, please also note the following: CALIFORNIA: Pursuant to section of the California Civil Code, you may view the file maintained on you by the consumer reporting agency (e.g., HireRight) during normal business hours. You may also obtain a copy of this file, upon submitting proper identification and paying the costs of duplication services, by appearing at the consumer reporting agency s offices in person, during normal business hours and on reasonable notice, or by certified mail. You may also receive a summary of the file by telephone, upon submitting proper identification and written request. The consumer reporting

7 agency has trained personnel available to explain your file to you, including any coded information, and will provide a written explanation of any coded information contained in your file. If you appear in person, you may be accompanied by one other person, provided that person furnishes proper identification. Proper identification includes documents such as a valid driver s license, social security account number, military identification card, and credit cards. If you cannot identify yourself with such information, the consumer reporting agency may require additional information concerning your employment and personal or family history to verify your identity. Additional California-specific information is set out below. (CALIFORNIA APPLICANTS ONLY)!A SUMMARY OF YOUR RIGHTS UNDER CALIFORNIA CIVIL CODE SECTION (a) An investigative consumer reporting agency shall supply files and information required under Section during normal business hours and on reasonable notice. (b) Files maintained on a consumer shall be made available for the consumer s visual inspection, as follows:. (1) In person, if he appears in person and furnishes proper identification. A copy of his file shall also be available to the!consumer for a fee not to exceed the actual costs of duplication services provided.. (2) By certified mail, if he makes a written request, with proper identification, for copies to be sent to a specified addressee. Investigative consumer reporting agencies complying with requests for certified mailings under this section shall not be liable for disclosures to third parties caused by mishandling of mail after such mailings leave the investigative consumer reporting agencies.. (3) A summary of all information contained in files on a consumer and required to be provided by Section shall be provided by telephone, if the consumer has made a written request, with proper identification for telephone disclosure, and the toll charge, if any, for the telephone call is prepaid by or charged directly to the consumer. (c) The term proper identification as used in subdivision (b) shall mean that information generally deemed sufficient to identify a person. Such information includes documents such as a valid driver s license, social security account number, military identification card, and credit cards. Only if the consumer is unable to reasonably identify himself with the information described above, may an investigative consumer reporting agency require additional information concerning the consumer s employment and personal or family history inorder to verify his identity. (d) The investigative consumer reporting agency shall provide trained personnel to explain to the consumer any information furnished him pursuant to Section (e) The investigative consumer reporting agency shall provide a written explanation of any coded information contained in files maintained on a consumer. This written explanation shall be distributed whenever a file is provided to a consumer for visual inspection as required under Section (f) The consumer shall be permitted to be accompanied by one other person of his choosing, who shall furnish reasonable identification. An investigative consumer reporting agency may require the consumer to furnish a written statement granting permission to the consumer reporting agency to discuss the consumer s file in such person s presence.

8 Para información en español, visite o escribe a la Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 1700 G Street N.W., Washington DC A Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Reporting Act The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) promotes the accuracy, fairness, and privacy of information in the files of consumer reporting agencies. There are many types of consumer reporting agencies, including credit bureaus and specialty agencies (such as agencies that sell information about check writing histories, medical records, and rental history records). Here is a summary of your major rights under the FCRA. For more information, including information about additional rights, go to or write to: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 1700 G Street N.W., Washington, DC You must be told if information in your file has been used against you. Anyone who uses a credit report or another type of consumer report to deny your application for credit, insurance, or employment - or to take another adverse action against you - must tell you, and must give you the name, address, and phone number of the agency that provided the information. You have the right to know what is in your file. You may request and obtain all the information about you in the files of a consumer reporting agency (your file disclosure ). You will be required to provide proper identification, which may include your Social Security number. In many cases, the disclosure will be free. You are entitled to a free file disclosure i f: en adverse action against you because of information in your credit report; you are unemployed but expect to apply for employment within 60 days. bureau and from nationwide specialty consumer reporting agencies. See for additional information. You have the right to ask for a credit score. Credit scores are numerical summaries of your creditworthiness based on information from credit bureaus. You may request a credit score from consumer reporting agencies that create scores or distribute scores used in residential real property loans, but you will have to pay for it. In some mortgage transactions, yo u will receive credit score information for free from the mortgage lender. You have the right to dispute incomplete or inaccurate information. If you identify information in your file that is incomplete or inaccurate, and report it to the consumer reporting agency, the agency must investigate unless your dispute is frivolous. See for an explanation of dispute procedures. Consumer reporting agencies must correct or delete inaccurate, incomplete, or unverifiable information. Inaccurate, incomplete or unverifiable information must be removed or corrected, usually within 30 days. However, a consumer reporting agency may continue to report information it has verified as accurate. Consumer reporting agencies may not report outdated negative information. In most cases, a consumer reporting agency may not report negative information that is more than seven years old, or bankruptcies that are more than 10 years old. Access to your file is limited. A consumer reporting agency may provide information about you only to

9 people with a valid need -- usually to consider an application with a creditor, insurer, employer, landlord, or other business. The FCRA specifies those with a valid need for access. You must give your consent for reports to be provided to employers. A consumer reporting agency may not give out information about you to your employer, or a potential employer, without your written consent given to the employer. Written consent generally is not required in the trucking industry. For more information, go to You may limit "prescreened" offers of credit and insurance you get based on information in your credit report. Unsolicited "prescreened" offers for credit and insurance must include a toll-free phone number you can call if you choose to remove your name and address from the lists these offers are based on. You may opt-out with the nationwide credit bureaus at You may seek damages from violators. If a consumer reporting agency, or, in some cases, a user of consumer reports or a furnisher of information to a consumer reporting agency violates the FCRA, you may be able to sue in state or federal court. Identity theft victims and active duty military personnel have additional rights. For more information, visit States may enforce the FCRA, and many states have their own consumer reporting laws. In some cases, you may have more rights under state law. For more information, contact your state or local consumer protection agency or your state Attorney General. For Information about your Federal rights contact: TYPE OF BUSINESS: 1. a. Banks, savings associations, and credit unions with total assets of over $10 billion and their affiliates. b. Such affiliates that are not banks, savings associations, or credit unions also should list, in addition to the CFPB: 2. To the extent not included in item 1 above: a. National banks, federal savings associations and federal branches and federal agencies of foreign banks b. State member banks, branches and agencies of foreign banks (other than federal branches, federal agencies and Insured State Branches of Foreign Banks), commercial lending companies owned or controlled by foreign banks, and organizations operating under section 25 or 25A of the Federal Reserve Act c. Nonmember Insured Banks, Insured State Branches of Foreign Banks, and insured state savings

10 associations d. Federal Credit Unions 3. Air carriers 4. Creditors Subject to Surface Transportation Board 5. Creditors Subject to Packers and Stockyards Act, Small Business Investment Companies 7. Brokers and Dealers 8. Federal Land Banks, Federal Land Bank Associations, Federal Intermediate Credit Banks and Production Credit Associations 9. Retailers, Finance Companies, and All Other Creditors Not Listed Above CONTACT: a. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 1700 G Street NW Washington, DC b. Federal Trade Commission: Consumer Response Center FCRA Washington, DC (877) a. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Customer Assistance Group 1301 McKinney Street, Suite 3450 Houston, TX b. Federal Reserve Consumer Help Center PO Box 1200 Minneapolis, MN c. FDIC Consumer Response Center 1100 Walnut St., Box #11 Kansas City, MO d. National Credit Union Administration Office of Consumer Protection (OCP) Division of Consumer Compliance and Outreach (DCCO) 1775 Duke Street Alexandria, VA Asst. General Counsel for Aviation Enforcement & Proceedings Aviation Consumer Protection Division Department of Transportation 1200 New Jersey Avenue, S.E. Washington, DC Office of Proceedings, Surface Transportation Board Department of Transportation 395 E Street, S.W. Washington, DC Nearest Packers and Stockyards Administration area Supervisor Associate Deputy Administrator for Capital Access United States Small Business Administration 409 Third Street, SW, 8th Floor Washington, DC Securities and Exchange Commission 100 F Street, N.E. Washington, DC Farm Credit Administration 1501 Farm Credit Drive McLean, VA FTC Regional Office for region in which the creditor operates or Federal Trade Commission: Consumer Response Center - FCRA Washington, DC (877)