Resources for Faculty and Staff
24 records found.
- Campus Childcare
The University of Wisconsin-Madison provides high quality child care for students, faculty and staff. Currently, there are eight different sites on or close to campus where child care is available. Developmentally appropriate “best practices,” combined with nurturing and consistent environments make UW Campus Child Care an excellent choice. Child care centers on campus support child development and family life while fulfilling the important education, teaching and research mission of the University.
Contact: (608) 262-9715
- Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL)
CIRTL promotes the development of a national faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) committed to implementing and advancing effective teaching practices for diverse student audiences as part of their professional careers.
Contact: (608) 263-0630
- CIC: Academic Leadership Program
The CIC is a consortium of 12 research universities, including the 11 members of the Big Ten Conference and the University of Chicago.The CIC universities collaborate in such activities as sharing access to study abroad offerings, coordinating large scale purchases and electronic licenses, creating programs for professional development, coordinating access to library materials, and building shared data networks. Our work is focused on three areas of dynamic, evolving collaboration: (1) national leadership for higher education; (2) combining, leveraging and expanding resources of member universities; and (3) expanding learning opportunities by sharing unique courses and programs.
Contact: (608) 262-5246
- CIC: Department Executive Officer Program (DEO)
This is an annual program of leadership development opportunities for department heads and chairs (Department Executive Officers or “DEOs”). Each Seminar focuses on topics involving departmental leadership skills, and emphasizes in-depth analysis of case studies, focusing on the challenges facing DEOs. Trainers, provosts, and invited participants are all involved in identifying timely and appropriate topics and in planning the program, with DEO Liaisons taking the lead. The Seminars utilize case studies based on actual problems that participants have dealt with or are facing. The presentation of case studies may involve role-playing by former DEOs, with participants asked to consider the options available at different stages. Emphasis is on the decisions made and the reasoning behind those decisions.
Contact: (608) 262-5246
- Delta Program in Research, Teaching and Learning
The Delta Program is a research, teaching and learning community for faculty, academic staff, post-docs, and graduate students that will help current and future faculty succeed in the changing landscape of science, engineering, and math higher education. Through the teaching-as-research idea, and with an integrated care for diverse audiences, the Delta Program in Research, Teaching and Learning (Delta) supports current and future science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) faculty in their ongoing improvement of student learning.
Contact: (608) 261-1180
- Dual Career Couple Program
Increasingly, university professionals are part of dual-career couples. Thus, decisions to accept a university position are often made based on the availability of employment for a spouse or partner. The university, recognizing this fact, makes these Dual Career Hire funds available for departments to help find employment for talented spouses/partners of candidates being hired for position vacancies.
Contact: (608) 262-5246
- Employee Assistance Office
The University of Wisconsin established this office to assist faculty and staff with maintaining and enhancing both their personal and professional lives. The office offers services to promote emotional well being as well as respectful and productive work environments.
Contact: (608) 263-2987
- Equity Diversity Action Committee in the School of Pharmacy
Assess issues of equity and climate in the School of Pharmacy.
Contact: (608) 262-8620
- Equity in Faculty Salaries
The University of Wisconsin is committed to maintaining equity in faculty salaries.The purpose of the initiatives and procedures is to assess whether an individual faculty member’s salary is appropriately and equitably related to career merit in comparison with peers at UW-Madison and to make merit-based salary-equity adjustments where appropriate. The procedures use existing campus policies and procedures for making salary decisions, and they are to be carried out at times when we normally evaluate career merit for individual faculty. More detailed information is provided on the website.
Contact: (608) 226-5246
- Excellence Through Diversity Institute (EDI)
The Excellence Through Diversity Institute (EDI) is an intensive train-the-trainers/facilitators learning community and organizational change support network organized around responsive assessment at multiple levels. This dynamically generative pilot program started July 2002. As an intentional capacity-building community of practice, EDI strives for excellence through creating authentically inclusive and vibrantly responsive teaching, learning and working communities that are conducive to success for all.
Contact: (608) 263-2473
- Faculty Strategic Hiring Initiative
Provost’s Office will help fund the initial years of high-priority faculty hires. The funding will be available to provide assistance for recruitment and retention, on a case-by-case basis, in the following categories: Tenured or Tenure-Track Minority Faculty, Tenured or Tenure-Track Women, Dual-Career Couples. For more information see website.
Contact: (608) 262-5246
- Graduate School Diversity Officers
To facilitate strategic planning, streamline communication and foster best practices in targeted minority and economically disadvantaged recruitment and retention for students, faculty and staff, Diversity Resources is establishing a group to coordinate these efforts at the graduate level. Volunteers interested in building improved climate will meet to maximize resources and, in concert with undergraduate-level coordinators and help insure a cohesive UW-Madison strategy. These graduate-level coordinators will eventually broaden to include all departments of the Graduate School.
Contact: (608) 265-2906
- Graduate School Diversity Resources Data Library
Data on the applications, admissions and enrollment of minority graduate students are currently fragmented and compartmentalized in many sources around campus. In order to ascertain accurate data for targeted minority and economically disadvantaged graduate students, Diversity Resources committed to building a Graduate Data Library. With the generous help of Steve Kosciuk of the College of Education, and Steve Hahn and Judy Bauman of the Graduate School, this library resource will provide demographic data to assist in maximizing recruitment and retention resources.
Contact: (608) 262-7849
- Leadership Institute (LI)
The Leadership Institute hopes to offer a safe and respectful environment for engaging in a sustained dialogue within a diverse learning community for exploration about self and others, meaning of work and leadership. The Leadership Institute will provide a forum to examine where we are in our careers, how we came to be here, and to re-envision future possibilities to help lead UW-Madison into an increasingly complex future. A major goal is to enhance and build our capacities to work and lead more effectively, thereby, contributing toward a campus climate affirming and validating diverse world views and ways of being in the world.
Contact: (608) 263-2378
- Office for Equity and Diversity (OED)
The Office for Equity and Diversity promotes, integrates, and transfers equity and diversity principles to advance and support the mission of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The primary goals include: providing leadership and consultation to develop and implement equity and diversity strategies throughout the University of Wisconsin-Madison;assist faculty, staff, and students to develop learning and work environments that promote excellence and respect; and coordinate campus compliance with affirmative action and equal opportunity requirements.
Contact: (608) 263-2378
- Ombuds Office for Faculty and Staff
The Ombuds Program serves as an informal, impartial, confidential, and independent resource for faculty and staff at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. It supplements the ombuds services available to students through the Dean of Students Office and to Medical School faculty, staff, and students through Ombuds Rosa Garner . An ombuds will listen to your concerns, clarify procedures, discuss options, and, if requested and appropriate, serve as an intermediary in attempting to resolve disputes. Ombuds work independently from University administrative offices; discussing a matter with an ombuds is confidential and does not constitute notice to the University.
Contact: (608) 265-9992
- Orientation for all Staff and Faculty
Office of Human Resource Development Orientation information for Faculty and Staff.
Contact: (608) 262-7112
- School of Pharmacy Office of the Director of Diversity
The School’s Director of Diversity serves as a consultant to faculty, staff, and students on issues of diversity; designs and delivers wider-ranging programming to the School, including an annual New Student of Color Orientation, academic success workshops, colloquia on issues related to culture and medicine and LGBT issues, a multicultural film festival, and Eastern medicine workshops.
Contact: (608) 262-8620
- Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity by the Experienced Doers (SEEDED)
SEEDED participants will explore and identify strategies for creating teaching and learning environments that promote excellence for ALL. Through this seminar, we will provide a respectful learning community for deepening our knowledge and honing our skills for developing effective practices—practices that will collectively move us forward to design and develop authentically inclusive teaching and learning environments and pedagogies. At our meetings, drawing from both the textbook of our “selves” as well as textbooks on the “shelves,” we will discuss and develop strategies for building inclusive curricula, classrooms, programs, and relationships. SEEDED asks for a year-long commitment, meeting each month for about 2 1/2 hours.
Contact: (608) 262-6284
- Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity Seminar (SEED)
SEED is a national project on inclusive curriculum, coordinated by Peggy McIntosh and Emily Style. The first SEED chapter started in Fall 2000. The seminar is open to faculty, staff, and administrators interested in multi-cultural and gender-balanced scholarship and its implications for more inclusive curriculum and teaching methods. This seminar provides a unique opportunity to meet in a safe and respectful environment to discuss and develop strategies for building inclusive curricula and classrooms. Using reading, videos, reflective writing and group work, we discuss the impact of race, class, gender, age, ability, sexual orientation and other defining aspects of our idenity, and ourselves, on teaching and learning. The SEED seminar is an academic year-long initiative that starts in September, meeting for three hours once a month.
Contact: (608) 262-6284
- Sexual Harassment Information and Resources Project
The Office for Equity and Diversity (OED) can assist with concerns about any type of prohibited harassment or discrimination, including harassment based on gender, race, religion, ethnicity, age, disability, and sexual orientation. This website is designed to help prevent and respond to sexual harassment.
Contact: (608) 263-2378
- Showcase
The annual UW-Madison Showcase is for those on campus who have a desire to SHARE best practices and LEARN from each other in order to IMPROVE work processes, learning environments, and the campus climate in both academic and administrative areas. The Showcase logo (Share, Learn, Improve) was created in 2005 and illustrates the connectivity that serves as the foundation for Showcase. The first Showcase was in 2000 and has become an annual campus tradition
Contact: (608) 265-5122
- Diversity Resources Strategic Planning Team
To begin these conversations about diversity at all levels of graduate education, a team of stakeholders from various units in the Graduate School was formed. In December 2004, Dean Cadwallader charged each unit to give 10% of the work week to diversity through a volunteer representative. The units represented are: Academic Services, Outreach and Graduate Student Professional Development, Admissions, and Information Technology.
Contact: (608) 262-2433
- Women in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI)
The Women In Science & Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI) is a centralized, visible administrative structure with a mission to address a number of impediments to women’s academic advancement. The center structure of WISELI allows the institute to bring the issues of women scientists and engineers from obscurity to visibility. It will provide an effective and legitimate means of networking women faculty across departments, decreasing isolation, advocating for and mentoring women faculty, and linking women postdoctoral fellows in predominantly male environments with a variety of women faculty.
Contact: (608) 263-1445