This section provides information for incoming and newly hired individuals as well as current academic personnel employees.

If you have specific questions about working at UW that are not addressed in this section, contact your individual department for additional resources. You can also contact the Office of Academic Personnel.

Forms

Personal Leave

Forms to be completed by employee and certified by healthcare provider(HCP)
Family member’s serious health condition
Fitness for duty certification
Maternity-related disability
Military family leave – serious injury or illness of service member
Military caregiver leave – serious injury or illness of a veteran
Parental leave for parent other than birth mother
Personal serious health condition

Forms to be completed by employee (verification documents required; HCP certification not required)
Domestic violence-related leave
Military family leave – qualifying exigency
Leave without pay 

Note: To request a leave without pay for personal reasons or a military duty leave under USERRA, contact your local unit administrator.

Professional Leave

Forms to be completed by employee and submitted to local department (not AHR)
Sabbatical leave-faculty (formerly known as paid professional leave)
Sabbatical leave-librarians

Visas

Academic Personnel Categories

Academic personnel is defined by UW APS 40.1. In some cases policies within this section relate to some, but not all categories of academic personnel. Discrete academic personnel categories will be called out when relevant.

Academic Personnel Policy Resources

UW Faculty Code
The University of Washington’s Faculty Code outlines key information about faculty responsibilities, appointments, promotions and tenure matters, and more.

Collective Bargaining Agreements

UAW and UW Collective Bargaining Agreement
This document outlines terms and conditions for postdoctoral scholar positions.

UW Housestaff Association Collective Bargaining Agreement
This document outlines terms and conditions for residents and fellows in medicine and dentistry.

American Federation of Teachers and UW Collective Bargaining Agreement
This document outlines terms and conditions for extension lecturers.

SEIU and UW Collective Bargaining Agreement
This document outlines terms and conditions for represented librarians.