Faculty Senate Blog Archive
- Executive Policy 2 Updates Link to the Memo from Christopher Keane, Vice President for Research EP2 concerns the distribution of indirect costs (F&A) at the unit, college and campus levels.
- Questions surrounding return to face-to-face Instruction in the fall Anonymous constituent concern from 4/7/2021. These questions relate to all campuses. Who are the members of the WSU Testing, Attestation, and Contact Tracing (TACT) Committee, their departmental/campus affiliations, and how can members of the university community contact them with concerns or questions? We have learned that a 3-foot distancing requirement is to be implemented in […]
- Responses to Faculty Senate Follow up Questions on Athletics 1. Can we get a definition of terms: deficit, debt, accumulated deficit, capital debt – and then allocated #’s to each of those terms? Deficit refers to the annual operating deficit due to expenditures exceeding revenues. While Athletics has been operating in a deficit for many years, they are on a program to eliminate their […]
- On the question of OneWSU effects on promotion and tenure On April 6th, 2021, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee met with Provost Chilton and her team to discuss faculty concerns. Faculty have expressed continuing concern about earlier suggestions that the OneWSU initiative would lead to changes in the promotion and tenure processes at WSU. Provost Chilton said during this meeting that it was very clear […]
- Concerns of Faculty Regarding Fall 2021 Instructional Modes and Transparency of Decision-making Shared on behalf of constituent faculty members: We understand that there is still much uncertainty about the Fall 2021 semester and that plans are in flux. However, the current planning strategy is causing frustration and concern among some faculty, especially because the communication to faculty from the Provost’s Office has been sparse and vague. The […]
- Proposed Unit Name Changes Notices of Intent for Name Changes Two NOIs for name changes have been brought forward from the Provost’s Office, along with the attached documents: To change Paul G. Allen School for Global Animal Health to Paul G. Allen School for Global Health Allen School Name NOI Allen School Agreement Allen School Amendment To change Elson […]
- Proposed Faculty Manual Changes: Teaching Portfolio and Guiding Principles The Faculty Affairs Committee in partnership with an ad hoc task force charged with aligning values and practices proposes two changes to the faculty manual. These changes are presented below and detailed in the linked document. Task force members include Laura Griner Hill, Stephen Hines, Louise Parker, Melanie-Angela Neuilly, Katie Cooper, Amanda Boyd, Matt Hudelson, […]
- Board of Regents Meeting March 11th and 12th, 2021 Dear Colleagues, The Board of Regents page has been updated with links to the agenda and YouTube videos for next week’s meeting https://facsen.wsu.edu/board-of-regents/ I have also included other relevant links on the page above that pertain to athletics funding and the Faculty Senate ad hoc committee’s statement to the Board. Please use the comment box […]
- WSU Budget Crisis Management Proposal The Faculty Affairs Committee has created a proposal to create a process for addressing university budget crises through faculty furloughs and/or salary reductions. Please Note: This is NOT a proposal to impose faculty salary reductions or furloughs. This is a proposal to develop a PROCESS by which, in certain defined circumstances (i.e. budgetary crises) and […]
- Faculty Senate ad hoc committee response to athletic funding Update 2/24/2021: Letter to the Board of Regents and President Schulz’s reply are linked below Background On December 15, 2020, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee formed an ad hoc committee to formalize a statement to the Board of Regents concerning the proposal that 2-3 million dollars be diverted from unallocated university funds in order to […]
- January 22 2021 Board of Regents Retreat Update January 27, 2021 Given that the framework for ONEWSU will be explained in a series of whitepapers and coordinated with the WSU System Council, I have moved this discussion to a page linked in the menu. Comments posted here have been moved as well. As we learn more about ONE WSU, we will share […]
- President’s Response to Athletics Spending Dear Colleagues, On November 10, 2020, the Faculty Senate Executive Committee published a blog post outlining a proposal by the university to the Board of Regents to help fund athletics as part of a fiscal recovery plan. President Schulz has read your responses to this proposal and will address them in the senate tomorrow, December […]
- New Grading Policy – No Record COVID No Record COVID (NRC) At the request of Provost Chilton, on November 19, 2020 WSU Faculty Senate passed a new temporary grading policy called No Record Covid (NRC) that may be applied retroactively fall 2020 and spring 2021, after grades post. With this new temporary policy, students may elect to covert letter grades of C-, […]
- Athletics Budget Discussion Board of Regents Dear Colleagues, As many of you know, the athletics budget will be presented as a future action item at the upcoming Board of Regents meeting on November 12 and 13. As a future action item, it will not be put to vote but will be discussed. Linked below is the memo and related materials. In […]
- Proposed changes to duration of immigration visas Since the 1980’s, the U.S. has implemented a temporary admission policy for foreign students (F visa), exchange visitors (J visa) and media representatives (I visa). This has been a “duration of status” policy, allowing flexibility in the duration of stay according to the terms and conditions of the temporary visas rather than according to fixed […]
- Threshold for overtime pay is going up Colleagues – I want to alert you to new over-time eligible salary thresholds that have been adopted by the Washington State Department of Labor and Industries. You will see from the attached chart that the threshold for employees, including postdoctoral fellows, to be overtime-eligible will climb from $35,100 at present to $49,831 on January 1st. […]
- Washington State Revenue Forecast Sep 23 2020 Below is the link to the updated Washington State revenue forecast per President Schulz for the September 24th 2020 Faculty Senate meeting. Link Here
- Request from Provost Chilton – Spring 2021 Academic Calendar Revision UPDATE: Provost Chilton has provided the following revised memo to address faculty concerns. Given the significance and timing of this recommendation, we will conduct a vote using Zoom chat on Thursday, October 8, 2020. For those senators calling in, we will use a roll vote after we tally the chat responses. Updated memo version 2 […]
- Request from James Krueger Professor James M. Krueger submitted the following document to Faculty Senate Executive Committee for discussion and comment. UPDATE November 10, 2020: This document and all faculty comments were presented to President Schulz on October 27, 2020. We requested President Schulz provide an official response, which we received today and is linked below. President Schulz Response […]
- Executive Policy #2 Draft UPDATE From Doug Call October 21, 2020: Chris Keane, VP for Research, has released a revised draft for the new Executive Policy #2 (EP2). We are providing a link to the policy here. One significant change from the last draft is that there will be no changes to current practices for F&A distribution to the […]
- Increased demand on faculty during COVID 19 remote work Link to Memo Over the summer, a memo signed by 123 faculty and staff members from across the WSU system was sent to WSU leadership, with the hope that some policies and changes could be instituted to help faculty navigate the ongoing increased labor demands that have come with COVID-19. The memo posted here is […]
- Roles and Responsibilities Report Faculty Senate was provided with the System Roles and Responsibilities report linked below. Please take the time to carefully read this report. Dean Chip Hunter chaired this group. AG Rud served as faculty representative. Additional members included Laura Griner-Hill (Vice Provost for Faculty Development and Affairs), Theresa Elliot Cheslek (Vice President Human Resource Services), and […]