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Faculty Senate
Representing All Faculty Across the WSU System

Navigating Challenges

Learn how the university is planning for a strong and sustainable future.

Faculty Forum

To facilitate communications about ideas, suggestions, opinions, and feedback the constituent concerns page has been updated to the faculty forum. In addition to posting your concerns, you are welcome to add suggestions for solutions and ideas for improving WSU, as well as kudos — what you see that is going well.

Proposal Tracking

The Faculty Senate meets on the first and third Thursday of every month to move forward on actionable processes relating to new degrees and a variety of changes to academic proposals. For ease of access, the Faculty Senate keeps a tracking sheet of agenda items and pending new degrees.

Highlights

Meetings Minutes

April Faculty Senate Chair Blog

The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU), the accrediting body for WSU, has approved the offering of bachelor’s degrees with as few as 90 credits (V714).  The State of […]

March Faculty Senate Chair Blog

As the academic year is winding down, the Faculty Senate will continue to be available for consultation and decision-making during the summer through our Faculty Executive team and our Steering […]

retreat from diversity

Forum Post I sense that WSU, like many other universities, is steadily retreating from diversity. I also sense that this retreat is only partly, not entirely, driven by “anti-woke” politics […]

Faculty Senate Agenda: September 24, 2026

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE The Faculty Senate will meet on Thursday September 24, 2026 via Zoom at 3:30 p.m. Please note: Senators are the only members eligible to vote […]

Meeting Minutes: September 18, 2025

MINUTES The Faculty Senate met on Thursday September 18, 2025, in French Admin Faculty Senate Conference room 344B and via Zoom. Sixty (63) senators were present, three (3) vacancies with […]

Meeting Minutes: October 2, 2025

MINUTES The Faculty Senate met on Thursday October 2, 2025, in French Admin Faculty Senate Conference room 344B and via Zoom. Sixty-six (66) senators were present, two (2) vacancies with […]

Meeting Minutes: October 16, 2025

MINUTES The Faculty Senate met on Thursday October 16, 2025, in Faculty Senate Conference room French Admin 344B and via Zoom. Sixty-two (62) senators were present, two (2) vacancies with […]