Faculty Advancement Initiative
The Faculty Advancement Initiative (FAI) provides funding and support for faculty development projects that enhance diversity, career progression, and leadership at UW—learn how your unit can collaborate to advance faculty success.
Opportunities in Leadership
The Opportunities in Leadership Program (OLP) provides unit-level leaders at UW with essential training, a community of practice, and a proactive approach to leadership, offering sessions on key topics, including diversity, equity, and inclusion—learn more about how OLP can support your leadership.
Faculty Recruitment Initiative
The Faculty Recruitment Initiative provides funding to support the recruitment of faculty whose work advances diversity, equity, and inclusion through research, teaching, mentoring, service, or outreach, with a focus on intellectual contributions rather than demographic background.
Faculty Retention Initiative
The Faculty Retention Initiative provides funding to support the retention of talented faculty whose research, teaching, mentoring, service, or outreach contributes to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion goals, focusing on the intellectual impact of their work—funds can be used for various purposes such as summer salary support, research assistance, and professional travel, but cannot be used for regular salary.
Appointment, Promotion, and Annual Reviews
Online resources on UW policies and practices for faculty reviews (annual, tenure, and promotion) are available through both the Faculty Code and Governance and the Office of Academic Personnel.
Department Chairs will want to review each of those resources or contact those offices with any specific questions that arise. The links below are intended to provide easy access to general information on policies and practices for faculty reviews.
Chapter 21: Organization of the University Faculty
Chapter 24: Appointment and Promotion of Faculty Members
Chapter 24-32: Scholarly and Professional Qualifications of Faculty Members
Chapter 24-54: Procedure for Promotions
Chapter 25: Tenure of the Faculty
Number I: Directors and Chairs
Number VIII: Presiding Officers of Chairs, Schools, and Departments
Number 31: Nondiscrimination and Affirmative Action
Number 45: Documentation of Qualifications and Recommendations for Promotion, Tenure, and Merit Increases
Number 64: Faculty Salary Policy
Accessing Useful Data
A variety of tools are available through Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) to provide unit leaders with access to data intended to best inform decision-making. Authorization is required to use each of the EDW resources below. You can login at each site to determine if you are an authorized user, or you can check your access online. Request access, if necessary.
- The Academic Personnel Appointments with Demographics was created to illustrate trends in faculty demographics. The data may be filtered by faculty type, college, department, and demographic category, and are made available to chairs in Tableau.
- UW Profiles is a data visualization tool with dashboards that allow you to explore and aggregate data about activities at any level of the University, from an entire campus to a small department. UW Profiles offers a demonstration video and user guide for beginners.
- The Business Intelligence (BI) Portal allows authorized users to access and use UW Enterprise Data Warehouse reports and analytics to make data-informed decisions for their units. Once in the Portal, new users can click on the BI Portal Quick Guide to learn about the system and the reports available to them.