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.
| Name | Rank | Constituency | Location | Start Term | End Term |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Committee Chair, Laurie Drapela (F) | Associate Professor | Criminal Justice, CAS | Vancouver | 2023 | 2024 |
| Gary Chastagner (F) | Professor | Plant Pathology, CAHNRS | Puyallup Extension | 2023 | 2024 |
| Brad Gaolach (F) | Director | Metropolitan Center for Applied Research, CAHNRS | Everett | 2023 | 2024 |
| Laura Lavine (F) | Professor | Entomology, CAHNRS | Pullman | 2023 | 2024 |
| Kay Olson (F) | Associate Professor | Health Sciences, CoN | Spokane | 2023 | 2024 |
| Shannon Scott (F) | Associate Professor | School of Music, CAS | Pullman | 2023 | 2024 |