The SAS Division has two named chairs that are awarded to SAS faculty. In the past, senior-level SAS faculty at the UW–Madison School of Pharmacy or faculty with a connection to SAS at the UW–Madison School of Pharmacy served on evaluation committees to evaluate applicant s for the named chairs. Currently, there are not enough senior-level SAS faculty at the UW–Madison School of Pharmacy or senior-level faculty with a connection to SAS at the UW–Madison School of Pharmacy to serve on evaluation committees. As such, a pool of senior-level faculty from the UW–Madison School of Pharmacy or outside of the UW–Madison School of Pharmacy will be created. The dean will select members of this pool to serve on selection committees to evaluate applicants for the named chairs.
The pool of senior-level faculty will be selected using the following procedure:
Each SAS faculty member will submit to the dean’s office the names of 2-3 senior-level faculty who would be able to evaluate applicants for the UW SAS named chairs. The senior-level faculty can be from the UW or from peer institutions but cannot be emeritus status. The submitted names will make up the pool of faculty the dean can use to select a committee to evaluate applicants for the SAS named chairs. The following procedure is proposed to make a recommendation to the dean and the Executive Committee in the School of Pharmacy for the recipients of SAS named chairs.
- The dean will select 3 people from the pool of faculty to serve on the Evaluation Committee. The dean may consult a member(s) of the SAS division to verify the composition of the committee.
- A current senior level UW School of Pharmacy faculty member, appointed by the dean, will serve as chair of the evaluation committee. The chair will not vote in the evaluation committee.
- Applicant materials and CVs will be sent to evaluation committee members. Evaluation committee members will evaluate applicants and will discuss applicants via conference call coordinated by the chair and produce a preliminary ranked list (i.e. recommendation) of recipients for the named chair and the rationale for the ranked list. The ranked list, rationale for the ranked list, and all application materials will be uploaded to the BOX file for Executive Committee review two weeks before the Executive Committee meeting.
- After the applicants have been excused from the Executive Committee meeting, the chair of the evaluation committee will present a summary from the Evaluation Committee followed by a discussion.
- A motion for approval will then be made based on the results of this discussion. The results of the vote will be provided to the dean who will then make a final decision.