Current issues
Legislation
Class A Legislation – Revision of Merit Review Procedures
Class B Legislation #211: Diversity Credit
Class B Legislation #210: Degrees, Graduation, and Commencement
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
- Audio recording from the faculty forum on unionization, January 13, 2016 (for best results, please use Internet Explorer)
- General information on faculty union process (short letter from Faculty Senate leaders with an overview of the process)
- Faculty Forward webpage (the SEIU faculty unionization campaign)
- UW Excellence webpage (UW faculty opposed to unionization)
- FAQ on the process of union organizing (provided by the UW administration’s “Informed Choice” website)
- Enabling legislation SSHB 2403
- Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC) (Oversees labor relations and representation elections.)
Compliance program
- Regents report on new UW structural compliance program
- Academic compliance programs: a federal model with separation of powers
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
- LEAP (Legislative Evaluation & Accountability Program Committee). Fiscal information for developing state budgets.
- OPB issue briefs. Link to the Office of Planning & Budgeting webpage that regularly produces briefing documents covering higher education policy, state budget and statutory obligations, UW policy, and national higher education trends.
UW initiatives
- Two years to two decades (2y2d)
- Sustainable academic business plan
- Research Administration Performance Improvement and Development
- Activity based budgeting
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.