美国威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校集群聘任模式剖析

On Cluster Hiring in University of Wisconsin-Madison, the United States

为促进跨学科研究和教学的发展，威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校采用“集群聘任”构建校级跨学科合作网络：把教师聘任到“集群”，在相关院系为其安置行政归属，提供一定的资金支持。为保证集群教师的良好合作，学校创建集群专属网站，建立“自上而下，自下而上”的管理机制，实行诸如“双管齐下，合二归一”的评估方法等。

In order to facilitate interdisciplinary research and teaching， University of Wisconsin-Madison adopts cluster hiring to construct a campus-wide interdisciplinary cooperative network. Faculty are hired into clusters and placed into related departments with certain funds. The sound interdisciplinary cooperation among cluster faculty are guaranteed by the opening of an exclusive website， the implementation of management mechanism characterized by up-down on the one side and down-up on the other side， and the adoption of evaluation methods such as taking both disciplinary and interdisciplinary achievements into consideration and consolidating them into a final assessment. All these measures and traits are unfolded in this essay. It is the purpose of this essay to inspire administrative bodies in Chinese universities to attach importance to the non-public interdisciplinary teams and adopt measures to create favorable environment for them. At least， measures to change their situation of being lurking can be taken by universities.