Concern I understand Global Campus may soon be allowed to hire the faculty to teach online classes. Why would departments allow those without expertise in the subject area to hire faculty to teach classes? This is taking away control of the subject matter from departments. Anonymous Constituent Response Thanks for your question. I was able […]
During the March 24th Faculty Senate meeting, a constituent concern was raised about why WSU does not provide an option for distributing a 9-mo salary over 12 months? Apparently, this has never been an option at WSU, but faculty were expecting this to be available after the implementation of Workday. To learn more, I reached […]
Concern I know that the Washington State House has passed Bill 1051, which adds a faculty member to the Board of Regents. I have not, however, seen this among Senate discussion items. How will WSU decide on the designated faculty member? Will people of color have a voice in this determination? Thanks. John Streamas SLCR, […]
Dear Colleagues, Last Wednesday, Transportation Services alerted the Pullman campus about a proposed fee structure that will result in a 30% increase in parking permit fees between 2022 and 2025. Some parking lots will be reclassified, including instances where permit parking will be converted to hourly parking. I reached out to Christopher Boyan, Director of […]
Guest Presentation: Leadership Update, Kirk Schulz, WSU President, Elizabeth Chilton, Provost, Executive Vice President & Chancellor, WSU Pullman. Proposed Faculty Senate Meeting Schedule for 2022 – 2023. The faculty senate officers met with the president and provost on April 6th, 2022. The Faculty Senate will report to the Board of Regents on May 6th, 2022 […]
In a moment where inflation is at a 40-year high and salaries remain both consistently low and stagnant (in the midst of inflation, the lack of even of a cost of living adjustments constitutes a pay cut) for faculty and staff, the possibility of a parking hike is both outrageous and predicable given the leadership […]
Dear Colleagues: As a follow up to March 1st announcement of a new mask policy (link: https://from.wsu.edu/covid-19/2022/03-01-update/email.html), we asked the WSU administration for additional guidance about masking as requested during the constituent concerns section of the Faculty Senate meeting on March 4th. President Schulz and Provost Chilton have kindly provided a memo with additional information […]
Guest Presentation: Yakima Consortium Proposal, Daryll DeWald, Chancellor, WSU Spokane & Vice President, Health Sciences, Craig Parks, Vice Provost for System Innovation and Policy. Instructional Site, Consortium, and Campus Designations (PDF) Faculty Senate Chair-Elect results. The Faculty Senate Officers met with the President and Provost on March 8th, 2022 and the next meeting with the President and Provost will be on April 6, 2022 […]
Dear colleagues: The Faculty Senate Executive Committee conducted an informal, qualitative survey (Dec-Jan) to collect information about challenges that faculty face with staff recruitment and retention. I distilled the information from this survey to produce the following 2021 – 2022 Internal Report (PDF). We delivered the report to the President and Provost in January and […]
Concern Hi! My constituents are continually concerned about the differences in inflation vs. WSU cost of living adjustment (COLA) increases. I know we are subject to what the legislature allocates, but WSU administration also obviously has a large amount (50% ?) of control over this. To show historical differences, I used COLA increases from my […]