Faculty Senate & Governance

Current issues

Legislation

Class A Legislation #170: Secretary of the Faculty Qualifications

Class A Legislation #169: Voting Time Limits

Class A Legislation #168: Faculty Council on Tri-campus Policy Membership

Class A Legislation #167: Elected Faculty Council Membership

Class A Legislation #166: Faculty Senate Ex-Officio Membership 

Class A Legislation #165: Clinical Practice Faculty

Merit Review Town Hall Recordings

Open Access Report

The June 2016 Open Access Report and separate Open Access Policy + FAQ pages are on the Libraries’ Scholarly Publishing and Open Access webpage. The Faculty Senate will be acting on Open Access Class B legislation at a spring quarter meeting. That legislation will be placed here when’s it’s ready for review.

Faculty union information

Compliance program

University faculty councils

Visit the university faculty councils webpage to find a faculty council. Current issues and activities for each council, updated for each Faculty Senate meeting, are also available.

Legislative issues

UW initiatives

Textbook Royalties

On September 15, 2008, the Washington State Executive Ethics Board released a news item stating that it is a violation of the Washington State Ethics Act for a faculty member who is a state employee to make a profit on the sale of his or her textbooks to students at his or her educational institution.