Searching for Excellence & Diversity®

Searching for Excellence and Diversity®

A workshop for department chairs and search committee members

This four-hour workshop is designed for faculty and staff members who are or will soon be serving on search committees on your campus. During this workshop, we will present the content of the search workshops we have developed and implemented on the UW–Madison campus.

Implementing workshops for search committees

A full-day “train the trainers” session

This full-day workshop is designed to help universities, university systems, and/or regional collectives develop and present their own search workshops on their campuses. It combines presenting the content of the WISELI’s standard search workshops with discussion of such issues as how the faculty and staff on your campus/campuses might adapt or adopt the materials, methodologies, techniques, etc., that we use. During this event, we also provide participants with the opportunity to gain experience presenting research relevant to the search process.

This option works best when those attending and participating will actually be involved in developing, conducting, organizing, or presenting future search workshops for your institution/s.

Combination Workshop

AM: “Searching for Excellence and Diversity®” – A workshop for department chairs and search committee members
PM: “Implementing workshops for search committees”

In the morning, we will offer the four-hour workshop, “Searching for Excellence and Diversity,” for faculty and staff members who are or will soon be serving on search committees on your campus.

In the afternoon, we will meet (for approximately 2-3 hours) with a selected group of faculty and staff whom you expect will be actively involved in future efforts to develop and present training for search committees. We will engage participants in informal discussion about implementing search workshops on your campus. Issues discussed will include: the materials, techniques, strategies, and options for implementing search committee training on your campus. During this session, participants can also gain some experience presenting research relevant to the search process.

This option allows for presenting the content of the search workshop to a broad campus audience in the morning, while targeting the details of implementing the workshop only to those with a keen interest in participating in campus efforts to continue offering similar training to search committees.