| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON |
June 12, 1998
Provost Lee L. Huntsman
Office of the Provost
300 Gerberding Hall
Dear Provost Huntsman,
We are pleased to submit the attached "Report of the ad hoc Committee on Faculty Rewards and Responsibilities" in response to your charge letter of February 5, 1998. We agree with you that it is timely to conduct a university-wide conversation on these important matters and are pleased to have been asked to serve as facilitators in getting it started.
In response to your request we are offering, for consideration by the Faculty, a number of recommendations: some relating to "post-tenure review" (or "review of all faculty," as we prefer to think of it) and others relating mainly to faculty morale. We suggest that the next phase of the conversation be focused on deciding which of these recommendations should be implemented. Departmental retreats scheduled for the beginning of the Autumn Quarter might provide a suitable venue for some of these discussions. Some of the recommendations would involve changes in the Faculty Code. Faculty would be in a better position to evaluate a given recommendation if they knew what (if any) code changes might be required in order to implement it. Many of our recommendations are worded in quite general terms at this point, and would require elaboration before they could be considered for formal adoption. Some repackaging may also be in order, as you attempt to reconcile our recommendations with those of the Committee on Faculty Salaries. Please feel free to call on us as individuals if we can be of help to you in carrying out these tasks.
We hope that our findings and recommendations will prove helpftil in explaining and interpreting the role of university faculty to the outside community and that they will ultimately result in some modest, but constructive changes in the way we operationalize the relationships between our individual and collective efforts on behalf of the University.
Sincerely,
John M. Wallace, Chair
Department of Atmospheric Sciences
Director, Joint Institute for the Study
Of the Atmosphere and Ocean
| Seattle, Washington 98195 |
