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Workplace Interactions Initiative
Training for Hiring Committees
"The diversity of the university's faculty and staff
inevitably influences its strength and intellectual personality."
"We need diversity in discipline, intellectual outlook, cognitive style, and personality to offer students the breadth of ideas that constitute a dynamic intellectual community."
"Diversity of experience, age, physical ability,
religion,
ethnicity, and gender contributes to
the richness of the environment for teaching and research."
Hiring and retaining an excellent and diverse faculty is a top priority for colleges and universities nationwide, yet faculty hiring committees typically receive little education about the search process. Consequently, WISELI has implemented a workshop, Searching for Excellence and Diversity®, that provides faculty with information, advice, and techniques that will help them run more effective and efficient search committees, diversify their applicant pools, their interviewed candidates, the offers they make, and ultimately the new faculty they hire.
Based on concepts of active learning, these workshops combine brief presentations with active discussions that encourage small groups of search committee chairs and members to learn from each other’s experiences and ideas. Topics discussed in these workshops include:
- Gaining the support and active involvement of search committee members
- Recruiting a highly qualified pool of candidates
- Discussing diversity within search committee meetings
- Raising awareness of unconscious assumptions and their potential influence on evaluation of candidates
- Ensuring a fair and thorough review of candidates
- Developing and implementing an effective interview process
WISELI offers the workshop, Searching for Excellence and Diversity®, to search committee chairs and members in several different venues and formats:
Resources
WISELI Resources
UW-Madison
Resources
Resources
at Other Universities
Resources
from various professional and academic organizations
Relevant
Journal Articles
- The
Minority & Women Doctoral Directory
This registry "maintains up-to-date information on
employment candidates who have recently received, or are
soon to receive, a Doctoral or Master's degree in their
respective field from one of approximately two hundred
major research universities in the United States. The
current edition of the directory lists approximately 4,500
Black, Hispanic, American Indian, Asian American, and
women students in nearly 80 fields in the sciences, engineering,
the social sciences and the humanities." Employers
can order the entire directory or only the section relevant
to a specific discipline.
- Faculty for the Future
Administered by WEPAN (Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network), this website focuses "on recruiting a highly diverse candidate pool of women, minorities, and other under-represented groups interested in academic careers and research positions." Faculty and administrators can post jobs and search for candidates. Students and recent graduates can post resumes and search for available positions. For more information see http://www.engr.psu.edu/fff/.
- Rice University
National Database of Female Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Scholars in Science and Engineering -- A searchable database of over 1300 female graduate students and postdoctoral scholars seeking faculty positions. (This database contains applications received from across the nation for the NSF-sponsored workshop on “Negotiating the Ideal Faculty Position” hosted by the ADVANCE Program. For questions about the workshop or database, please email advance1@rice.edu.)
- Other recruiting resources (coming soon)
- American
Association of University Professors
- Association
of American Colleges and Universities
- NSF,
Science and Engineering Doctorate Awards
A series of annual reports based on results from the NSF's Survey
of Earned Doctorates. Can be used to determine the number
and percentage of women and minority Ph.D. recipients
in the 10 year period preceding publication of the report.
Data are presented for each year from 1994 to 2005. Other NSF
Reports which may be of similar value to search committees
include: Doctoral
Scientists and Engineers: Profiles and Characteristics
of Doctoral Scientists and Engineers in the United States.
- WISELI
Links to Organizations Supporting Women in Science and
Engineering
Daryl
Smith, "How
to Diversify the Faculty," Academe 86(Sept/Oct 2000):
48-52 Trix,
Frances, and Carolyn Psenka. "Exploring the Color of
Glass: Letters of Recommendation for Female and Male Medical
Faculty." Discourse & Society 14, no. 2 (2003): 191-220. (Available
online for the UW community through Sage
Publications.)
For more -- see the WISELI Library; Bibliography for Search Committee Training
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