Candidate visits
Dear Office of Global Affairs Community,
The Provost’s Advisory Search Committee has identified four finalists for vice provost for Global Affairs. The candidates will visit the University of Washington for interviews and campus presentations beginning September 30, 2024. Faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend the presentation (or view the livestream) given by each candidate. You will have the opportunity to provide feedback on each finalist via a confidential survey that will be made available on the provost’s website after each candidate’s presentation.
Information about the candidates, including their names and CVs, is confidential until 24 hours before their visit begins. Then, the information will be made available on the provost’s website, accessible to users with a UW NetID. The campus livestream presentations will be recorded and posted on the website.
We appreciate and encourage your participation in this process.
The scheduled visits are:
September 30-October 1, 2024 – Candidate “A”
Presentation: September 30, 2024, 3:30-4:30pm Alder Hall Auditorium.
October 7-8, 2024 – Candidate “B”
Presentation: October 7, 2024, 3:30-4:30pm Alder Hall Auditorium.
October 10-11, 2024 – Candidate “C”
Presentation: October 10, 2024, 3:30-4:30pm Alder Hall Auditorium.
October 16-17, 2024 – Candidate “D”
Presentation: October 16, 2024, 3:30-4:30pm Alder Hall Auditorium.
Sincerely,
Tricia R. Serio
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Professor, Biochemistry
Search Summary
The University of Washington seeks a strategic, creative, and collaborative Vice Provost for Global Affairs. The UW is distinguished by a culture that is unafraid to try new approaches and ambitious in achieving new heights in its academic and research goals, locally and globally. The Vice Provost will have the opportunity to craft and spearhead global engagement efforts at a university that is highly focused on global outreach as part of its research and teaching missions.
Advisory Search Committee for the Vice Provost for Global Affairs
- Danny Hoffman, Professor and Director, International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences, Co-Chair
- Sheila Edwards Lange, Chancellor, UW Tacoma, Co-Chair
- Sara Curran, Associate Vice Provost for Research and Professor, Sociology, and International Studies, College of Arts and Sciences
- Kenai Joseph Dindia, Senior, Finance
- Susan Graham, Professor, School of Medicine
- Patricia Kuhl, Professor and Chair, Speech and Hearing Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences
- Wolfram Latsch, Director, UW Study Abroad, Global Affairs
- Joe Lott, Associate Professor, College of Education
- Joseph Wartman, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering
- Dan Zhu, Associate Director, Center for International Relations & Cultural Leadership Exchange (CIRCLE), Student Life
Charge letter
Dear Colleagues,
Thank you for agreeing to serve on the search committee to identify and recommend candidates for the position of Vice Provost for Global Affairs. Sheila Edwards-Lange, Chancellor, UW Tacoma, and Danny Hoffman, Professor and Director, International Studies, Social Sciences Division, College of Arts and Sciences will co-chair the committee. As you can see, the committee is composed of outstanding individuals from across the institution.
Our goal is to have a new Vice Provost identified by Fall Quarter 2024. We seek a distinguished academic and a visionary leader for the Office of Global Affairs who will work well with the UW community, including other academic units, public and non-profit partners, alumni, and donors. Given the nature of this position and trends in higher education, I have opened the position to professionals with either underlying faculty or staff appointments. I am grateful to Gayle Christensen, for serving as interim vice provost as we carry out this search.
The University has a strong commitment to diversity, which I ask you to consider seriously, as you recruit a pool of eligible candidates. Please establish protocols for seeking the opinions and nominations from the broader UW faculty, student, and staff communities, as well as appropriate constituencies outside the University of Washington. At the conclusion of the search, I would like to receive from you the names of 2 to 3 highly qualified candidates.
The first meeting of the committee is scheduled for April 17, 2024, 3-4 p.m. (meeting request coming soon). I will attend a portion of the meeting to discuss my priorities and expectations for the position and the search with you. We have engaged the search firm Isaacson Miller to assist you in this important work.
Sincerely,
Tricia R. Serio
Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs