Faculty Development Events

New Faculty Orientation and Welcome Event

Annual Event – September 24,2024, 10am-5:30pm, In-Person
Location: Garver Feed Mill

New Faculty Orientation Website

Our goal was to welcome new faculty to our community, introduce them to the School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) and UW Health Resources, and learn about the relationship between UW Health and the SMPH. The event also provided an excellent opportunity to connect new faculty members with leadership and colleagues.

Please contact nfo@med.wisc.edu with any questions.

Pathways to Promotion 102 for CHS/CT Faculty

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Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 1:00p-5:00p, Hybrid, HSLC and Virtual

This interactive workshop is tailored to CHS and CT track faculty who expect to go up for promotion within the next year or two. Mentors are also welcome.

This course includes:

• Emphasis on what you need to do in the last year before you go up for promotion
• Logistics of putting your packet together
• Overview of the promotions committees function and process by current members
• Opportunity to sign up for a 15 minute one-on-one consultation on your personal statement and/or dossier

Pathways to Promotion may be attended multiple times. Contact ofad@med.wisc.edu for questions.

2024 UWSMPH Education Scholarship Retreat

Wednesday, October 30, 2024 from 8:00 am – 12:30 pm

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Join the Office for Faculty Affairs and Development for the second Education Scholarship Retreat. Participants should expect to be engaged in discussions and walk away from this retreat with actionable ideas. 

• Are you wondering how to get your innovative curriculum or teaching activity published?
• Do you have an educational intervention idea but not sure how to move the project forward?
• Does the thought of moving your teaching activities to scholarship keep you awake at night?
• Would you like to know how to develop your teaching experiences so they count for promotion?
• Have you been looking for strategies and sources for funding your education scholarship?
• Do you want to know more about education scholarship?

If you answered yes to any of these questions you should attend the 2024 UWSMPH Education Scholarship Retreat to learn more about education scholarship and move your ideas and projects to the next step. We recognize people have varying levels of experience with education and education scholarship.  

Register Here

Please join us for this in-person workshop. 

Date: October 30, 2024

Time: 8:00 am-12:30 pm 

Location: HSLC

Searching For Excellence & Diversity Workshop

Wednesday, November 6 2024, 1:00-4:00pm (In-Person, HSLC)

A Workshop for Faculty Search Committees in the Health Sciences

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If you are serving on a faculty search committee, launching a search this spring semester, we invite you to participate in WISELI’s workshop for faculty search committees. 

As described on the WISELI website, this workshop focuses on: 

• Recruiting a highly qualified pool of diverse applicants
• Understanding the potential influence of unconscious bias on evaluation of applicants
• Ensuring an equitable review of applicants
• Developing and implementing a more equitable and inclusive interview process
• Successfully hiring selected candidates

Who Should Attend: 

• Faculty Search Committee Chairs
• Members of faculty search committees
• Department Chairs
• Administrators assisting faculty search committees

Register Here

The Office of Faculty Affairs and Development (OFAD), the Office for Diversity and Equity Transformation, and University of Wisconsin – Madison Inclusion in Science and Engineering Leadership Institute (WISELI) are collaborating to present the Searching For Excellence & Diversity Workshop.

QUESTIONS:
Please contact Dr. Dessie Clark (dlclark4@wisc.edu).

Navigating Difficult Conversations: Healthy and Effective Approaches

Tuesday, November 19, 2024, noon-1:30 pm, virtual

One crucial skill that can positively impact work culture and relationships is the ability to navigate difficult conversations effectively. Sponsored by the Office for Faculty Affairs and Development, this session will help participants get clarity around what it is that differentiates these conversations. Participants will discuss how to approach, rather than avoid, these conversations in a healthy, well-prepared way. Presenters will offer a framework for planning the conversation and give you an opportunity to practice:

• Expand individual awareness of your current approach to emotionally charged, high risk conversations.
• Learn how to engage in healthy conversations with confidence and skills.
• Learn strategies and tools to prepare for navigating difficult conversations.
• Practice navigating difficult conversations using the POISE model.

This event is currently at capacity: If you would like to be added to a waitlist please email ofad@med.wisc.edu.

Effective Mentoring for Faculty Workshop

Session #1: Thursday, January 23, 2025, 4:00-7:00 pm, HSLC
Session #2: Tuesday, January 28, 2025, 4:00-7:00 pm, Virtual
Each session will cover different content so participants are expected to attend both sessions.

Register Here

In honor of January being Mentoring Month, Office of Faculty Affairs and Development (OFAD) is hosting these workshops in collaboration with Institute for Clinical and Translational Research (ICTR). 

This highly interactive 2-part workshop is particularly relevant for faculty who mentor early-stage investigators, including those on career development grants.

Overview of the workshop series:

Mentorship is associated with academic and career success across disciplines and career stages in higher education. Strong mentorship has been linked to enhanced mentee productivity, self-efficacy, career satisfaction, and sense of support.  Unfortunately, few mentors have received formal training in effective mentoring practices, particularly for mentoring scholars from traditionally underrepresented groups. 

Drs. Christine Pfund and Christine Sorkness will present these 2 highly interactive mentorship workshop sessions. The sessions are based upon the evidence-based curriculum, Entering Mentoring, available through CIMER. In the workshops, mentors will learn ways to advance their mentoring practices in the areas of aligning expectations, addressing equity and inclusion, fostering independence, maintaining effective communication, and promoting mentee research self-efficacy. 

Register Here

If you have questions, please contact ofad@med.wisc.edu.

Pathways to Promotion – Tenure

Tuesday, February 4th, 2025, 4:30-6:30pm, Hybrid: HSLC or Zoom
Biological Sciences (Health Science Focused)

Registration – In Person Option
Registration – Zoom Option

Co-hosted by the Office of the Secretary of the Faculty; this workshop offers an in-depth examination of the UW Madison promotion and tenure process from the perspective of central campus and SMPH. 

This course covers:

• Preparing a tenure portfolio
• Learning to get the most from your mentors
• First-hand accounts from recently tenured faculty about preparing for tenure
• How the Biological Sciences Divisional committee operates
• What the division Looks for in successful tenure cases.

During this workshop you can expect the Vice Provost for Faculty & Staff to speak, along with first-hand accounts of recently tenured faculty about preparing for tenure. You will also hear from the Divisional Committee Leadership about how your divisional committee operates and what the committee looks for in successful tenure cases.

Registration – In Person Option
Registration – Zoom Option

View the agenda and workshop materials.

Pathways to Promotion Tenure workshop is for tenure-track faculty only. This workshop may be attended multiple times.

Can’t attend the workshop date listed above?  A Biological Sciences, Pathways to Promotion- Tenure workshop is also available on January 14th, 2025

Contact ofad@med.wisc.edu for questions.

SAVE THE DATE: Early Career Grant Writing Seminar

February 13-14, 2025 | 9 am – 12:30 pm | Virtual (Event is not recorded)

Registration will open Thursday, October 31, 2024

This seminar is designed to demystify the National Institutes of Health (NIH) K and, to a lesser extent, F32 grant writing process for early-career faculty, researchers/scientists (MD/PhD level), research administrators, postdocs primarily involved in research-oriented study, and fellows on T32s or in the Physician-Scientist Training Program (PSTP).

The seminar and lecture handout are at no cost to all participants and the required textbook is at no cost to UWSMPH faculty. Faculty who are not part of UWSMPH and all non-faculty who didn’t attend the February 2024 “Grant Writing” seminar or didn’t receive a new textbook at that time will need to provide a funding string when registering to cover the $100 newest edition textbook and direct shipping fee.

Topics and Agenda

• How the partnership between applicant, mentor and institution leads to funding and protected time for research training/career development
• Identifying appropriate proposal types
• Using review criteria to inform your grant application
• Understanding the kinds of training and research to propose
• Establishing and getting the most from your mentoring team
• Preparing the Candidate and Research Plan sections
• Obtaining reference letters
• Tips and content ideas for Statements of Mentors and Co-Mentors

For more information, please visit the seminar webpage.

Sponsored by the Office for Faculty Affairs and Development, in conjunction with the UW Department of Medicine, will offer the virtual Early Career Grant Writing Seminar from the Grant Writers’ Seminars and Workshops (GWSW).