Composition & Tenure
Individual Members
- The members of the ad hoc committee will be WSU tenure track or career track faculty.
Term of the proposed Ad Hoc Committee
- The committee will automatically terminate May 15, 2024 unless the Faculty Senate acts to extend it.
Ad Hoc Committee Objectives
- Investigate how step salary systems at other universities are set up and implemented.
- Characterize faculty perspectives in those universities with a step salary system.
- Investigate advantages and disadvantages of such systems.
- Determine the existence of any legal barriers to implementing a step salary system.
- Any other objectives that an ad hoc committee might determine as relevant to implementing a step salary system.
Additional Notes
- Reports to: The Faculty Senate
- The chair is elected by the committee and is a faculty representative.
- In January 2023 a constituent concern about WSU’s salary structure prompted the creation of this ad hoc committee in an effort to explore the benefits, costs, and/or risks to implementation of a step salary structure. The Faculty Senate approved the request to establish the Salary Step Ad Hoc Committee on March 23, 2023.