Constituent Concerns with Responses

Forum Post Faculty member Anne Marie Guerrettaz provided the information below regarding au pairs: If you are looking for (creative) solutions to the childcare shortage that affects many faculty, you […]

Forum Post For a communication from President Schulz about issues of concern to the university community, please see the faculty senate blog. Comments

Forum Post We write to express our concerns about the stagnant research enterprise at WSU. While we have many things to be proud of, neither of us are content with […]

Forum Post Over the course of this semester, I have noticed a few trickles of students trying to use AI to do their work for them. It seems easy enough […]

Forum Post On February 21, 2023, Von Walden, Glen Duncan, and I delivered a letter to President Schulz, Provost Chilton, and Board of Regents Chair Dickinson describing faculty concerns about […]

Forum Post How many Associate and Assistant VPs does WSU Pullman have now? Is there an updated organizational chart reflecting the most recent hires in 2022-2023 that can be shared […]

Forum Post Good news for WSU – WSU Nets Top 100 Ranking Among U.S. Universities – WSU Insider  Response For insight into the research.com university ranking methodology, scroll down to […]

Forum Post The cost of parking for faculty and staff is outrageous. For example, $850 for an orange permit or $600 for a green permit is outrageous. By comparison, across […]

Forum Post To meet its mission and vision WSU must invest in its faculty. The College and University Professional Association for Human Resources has shown that there is a national […]

Forum Post I received the following message from one of my colleagues in CAHNRS. They wanted it to be shared with the Faculty Senate. “I am becoming quite worried that […]

Post I am concerned that the guidance we have received thus far from the institution regarding the ongoing WSU graduate student unionization process essentially prevents faculty and staff from showing […]

Post In December of 2022, The Learning Center closed in Pullman. This left many families scrambling for childcare and many have had to find an arrangement that is less than […]

Post The parental leave policy at WSU does not meet the needs of many 9-month faculty who teach. Specifically, leaves tend to be granted for 12 weeks (per federal FML […]

Post Hello, I am chairing a search committee in my school. Applicants are required to upload 8 documents (such as, CV, job market paper, DEI statement, etc.). Screening begins Dec. […]

Post In 2022, there was confusion regarding announced and retracted changes to the 2022 summer semester start date, specifically that there would be a week of time between the end […]

Post I read in the MP Daily News that you are discussing possibly requiring Covid-19 vaccinations for students. I strongly support this idea — but it must be made clear […]

Post There is a huge gap for professors in different ranks and different departments. Many professors are paid less than assistant or associate professors. For example, the department of mathematics […]

Post REQUEST 1: Please have the doors to the Faculty Hoteling Rooms in SPARK left unlocked. The calendar system for booking the hoteling and conference rooms in SPARK is not […]

Post I have noticed and experiencing this semester an increasing number of break-downs with equipment and video-conferencing connections. In my case, this is mostly in Webster and Spark. They are […]

Post There is concern from faculty and graduate students about the football game within the week, and the blocking of parking spaces. For some of our faculty and graduate students […]