Cherry Blossoms

Natural Sciences: Talking points for meetings with search committees

Talking points for meetings with search committees ==================================================(rsi, wxs, 9-27-06; 10-11-2012)Available on http://www.artsci.washington.edu/natsci/1. Background   DDs meet with all search committees   - Become acquainted   - Convey information about the search process and DD's role2. Personal intro3. DDs role: Support, oversight (another set of eyes), approval.   - Support:        Meet with candidates       Help with partner hires       Help make connections       Provide extra resources:         - Pay for women and underrepresented minority visits	   (candidate only, not family)         - Extra position (in some rare cases)       Underrepresented minorities: African-Americans, Native Americans,       Hispanics.        - Note: Minority candidates who grew up in the US had a          difference experience than those who grew up in a country          where they were not members of a minority.       - Note: Asking a candidate whether he/she will need a partner          accomodation is not allowed. Suggestion: Give all candidates         the memo on partner accomodations (on Web site). Luis Fraga         (Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement) and Sarah Keller         can help with partner hires.   - Oversight (another set of eyes):        Quality assurance. Note: If search fails, you will get to          search again next year       Look out for women and minority candidates         Note: If there is no woman among the candidates who will be	 invited for am interview, then submit file of most highly	 ranked candidate and file of most highly ranked woman to	 Divisional Dean before inviting applicants. The same rule	 applies to underrepresented minority candidates.       Comparative evaluation of senior candidates   - Approval:        Salary        Startup package4. Diversity: Increasing diversity is a central component of UW / College   mission.   - Fairness   - Size and quality of labor pool; social stability   - Diverse faculty helpful in recruiting minority and women grad students   Need:   - Diverse applicant pool   - Unbiased selection process   - Attractive offer (money, working conditions, supportive environment)   Resources (find by Googleing UW Web site)   - UW ADVANCE Center for Institutional Change   - Faculty Recruitment Toolkit   - Arrange for female candidates to talk to ADVANCE (Eve Riskin, Joyve Yen)   - Luis Fraga can help with arranging visits of minority candidates5. Guarding against personal bias   - Experiments strongly suggest that bias exists   - Both genders are biased in the same direction   Take one of Tony Greenwald's Implicit Association Tests     https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/   Suggestion: Instead of a single overall ranking, rank candidates on    multiple criteria - helps move above the "gut level".   Sample criteria (Chris Moore, Speech and Hearing Sciences)   - Productivity/Fundability   - Teaching needs    - Possible collaborations    - Diversity    - Citizenship 6. Questions?