2023-2024 Annual Report

Message from HERC Leadership

HERC Happenings

This year, we focused on achieving sustainable changes, big and small.

National Expansion
We are now a national organization. Our national footprint allows us to broaden our membership and make a greater impact. Reaching this significant organizational milestone empowers us to cultivate an inclusive community, extending beyond geographical limits and offering valuable opportunities to member institutions nationwide.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives
In response to member and campus needs, we've initiated listening sessions to allow our colleagues to share their experiences and exchange resources. We’ve also established a dedicated committee focused on these initiatives to help identify needs, resources, and opportunities in service of our collective mission and help ensure that HERC member programming is current, useful, and adaptable.

Inclusive Job Seeker Outreach 
Promoting higher education careers and expanding the candidate pool is increasingly challenging and important work. We’ve enhanced our outreach efforts by implementing a web accessibility tool and leveraging content marketing to connect with diverse job seekers more effectively.

New Resource Formats
Our members appreciate having multiple ways to learn and acquire information. We introduced new formats, such as our Resource Collections (curated selections featuring resources from our extensive library) and demos (live walkthroughs of HERC products and tools), to better serve our community's needs.

We Are HERC

The HERC Governance Board oversees the strategic direction of the national HERC organization. The benefits of serving on the board include establishing national HERC priorities, voting rights to set the direction of the organization, and expanding professional development and networking opportunities.

“As an HR leader, I am committed to implementing innovative and effective HR programs, strategies, and best practice solutions to recruit, retain, and engage highly qualified professionals. Supporting HERC is a strategic decision that enhances my institution’s recruitment and retention efforts, supports inclusive excellence, provides valuable resources, and aligns with institutional goals and priorities.” - Dana Hummel, Chief Human Resources Officer, Bellarmine University 

“HERC is the only collaboration of its kind. It's member-led and regionally-centered, with the strength of a national community of higher ed employers. HERC benefits are so comprehensive and curated for many areas of an institution.  With HERC, we accomplish more than any single institution can do alone." - Jennifer Park, Director, Southern California HERC, San Diego State University

“I support HERC because I value the opportunity to be part of a unique community within Higher Education. My work focuses on the dual career space and HERC is the only professional organization that consistently offers professional development, research support, ideas, and tools to dual career practitioners. In addition, HERC's job seeker tools and the HERC job board's capacity to run dual career searches are invaluable tools for my clients.” - Alicia Simon, Dual Career Coordinator, University of Michigan

Regional Leadership

These university and system offices act as lead and partner institutions for our regional HERCs. They serve as champions of our shared mission to cultivate and retain a talented workforce as diverse as the people we serve.