Campus community invited to meet human resources finalists

Members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison community will have opportunities in early June to meet and talk with finalists for the position of the university’s director of human resources.

Each candidate will give a presentation and answer questions in open forums. The forums will be held in 220 Ingraham Hall from 2 to 3:30 p.m. on the following days:

• Wednesday, June 2, Jana Wessels, assistant vice president, University of Iowa Health Care Human Resources.
• Thursday, June 3, T. Hensley “Ted” Williams, co-principal, The Williams Group.
• Monday, June 7, Ann Sherman, director of human resources and equal opportunity officer, Northern Michigan University.
• Wednesday, June 9, Robert Lavigna, vice president for research, Partnership for Public Service.

While visiting the UW–Madison campus, the finalists also will meet with university leaders, Office of Human Resources staff, and other faculty and staff groups.

UW-Madison’s human resources director leads the human resources enterprise for an institution with approximately 15,000 employees, including more than 2,100 faculty, 7,000 academic staff and 5,200 classified staff, plus 5,000 graduate assistants and 7,000 student employees.

In addition to providing leadership, policy direction and management oversight of all human resource services for faculty and staff, the human resources director will take a lead role in developing programs to realize campus goals, such as recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty and staff and integrating new technology.

A search and screen committee of faculty, staff and students recommended the finalists to UW–Madison Vice Chancellor for Administration Darrell Bazzell.

The new human resources director will succeed the retired Carla Raatz, who held the position since 1988. Steve Lund, director of the Academic Personnel Office, is serving as interim human resources director.

More information about the finalists and their visits to campus is available here.