UW Tacoma Faculty Assembly

April 7, 2024

Speech Notes for Faculty Code and Faculty Rights Workshop

When was your last time to read the UW Faculty Code?

Do you know your rights as a UW faculty member as specified in the Faculty Code?

Do you know that Faculty Code is both an employment document and a shared-governance document?

Do you find it difficult to understand the Faculty Code?

To help UWT faculty, particularly junior faculty and new faculty, to understand the role of Faculty Code in the UW workplace, the Faculty Assembly offered a Faculty Code & Faculty Rights 101 Workshop over Zoom on Feb. 21, 2024. Dr. Surya Pathak from Bothell, the Chair of Faculty Council on Tri-Campus Policy, is our featured speaker. We’re grateful for the support from the Vice Provost for the Office of Academic Personnel, Dr. Nafukho, for sharing new academic leader onboarding slides.

The workshop is both a great learning session and a great healing session as our distinguished speaker Dr. Pathak reminded us:
  • Understanding Faculty Code and faculty rights is part of self care as we faculty should know what the university provides us as resources.
  • We all want to have a strong UW.

Check out the speech notes of the workshop.

And two sets of slides: