Report of the Provost's ad hoc Committee on Faculty Responsiblities and Rewards

Chair's Letter to the Provost

Executive Summary

Report

1. The Charge
2. The Conversation
3. The Mission of the UW as a Research University
   3.1 Responsibilities of the Faculty
   3.2 Rewards of the Faculty
   
4. Findings and Recommendations
   4.1 Continuing the Conversation
   4.2 Faculty Responsibilities
   
   • 4.2.1 Individual Versus Collective Responsibilities
   • 4.2.2 Role of Strategic Planning
   • 4.2.3 Role of the Department Leadership
   • 4.2.4 Special Considerations
   4.3 Review of Faculty
   
   • 4.3.1 Faculty Developmental Review
   • 4.3.2 Evaluating Faculty Effectiveness
   • 4.3.3 Promotion and Tenure Reviews
   4.4 Faculty Rewards
   
   • 4.4.1 Salaries
   • 4.4.2 Rewarding Teaching Excellence
   • 4.4.3 Addressing Special Needs
   • 4.4.4 Nonmonetary Rewards
   4.5 Concerns About Declining Public Support for Higher Education

List of Recommendations

Appendices

• Charge letter to ad hoc Committee on Faculty Responsibilities and Rewards from Provost Lee L. Huntsman, February 5, 1998.
• 1997-98 UW Faculty Count.
• Datalog (List of readings and information available to the ad hoc Committee on Faculty Responsibilities and Rewards.)

Members of the ad hoc Committee on Faculty Responsibilities and Rewards

Committe on Faculty Responsibilities and Rewards
provost@u.washington.edu
June 1998