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Presented by: Chadwick Allen and Joyce Yen

Each workshop covered:

• Brief review of current policy, legal, and political climate for faculty hiring;
• Planning ahead for forming search committees, faculty search guidelines and charge, writing job ads, drafting assessment rubrics, and devising an active outreach plan;
• Focused discussion about situations where committee members have prior professional and personal relationships with applicants and how to address potential conflicts of
• interest, bias, and perceptions of bias.
• This workshop was designed for faculty and staff who will participate in faculty hiring in the next academic year, 2024-25.

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UW ADVANCE and the OFFICE FOR FACULTY ADVANCEMENT partnered to offer a Spring Webinar on troubleshooting faculty searches.

This event was intended for anyone who is leading a unit that is hiring, chairing a search committee, or serving on a search committee.

The webinar focuses on two common challenges: assessing DEI statements and evaluating known candidates. How units navigate these challenges during the faculty search process can have either positive or negative impacts on their culture. This webinar explores questions like: What preparatory work should units and search committees do to address potential challenges? How should DEI statements be assessed? What is the potential role of the DEI statement in the assessment process? How should conflicts of interest be defined and managed? What are effective strategies for evaluating known candidates? By planning for the possibility of encountering challenges like these, units can more successfully navigate the assessment and decision-making process and positively affect their culture.

Featuring:

• Chadwick Allen, Office for Faculty Advancement
• Joyce Yen, UW ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change

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Hosted by the Faculty Council on Race Equity and Justice on Friday, April 5, 2024, 11:00 a.m. – 12:20 p.m. PST via Zoom

DEI statements, which are increasingly used in faculty hiring and promotion, often generate confusion and consternation. In the spirit of continuing discussion on the subject matter, our guest will explore the issues related to the use of such statements in academia and their impact on academic freedom. Dr. Randall Kennedy (Harvard Law School) will provide a different viewpoint on DEI statements from that supported in last year’s webinar with Dr. Brian Soucek.

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