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Assistant Vice Provost Shelley Kostrinsky recently announced her retirement from the University of Washington, concluding an impactful 20-year career dedicated to advancing UW’s academic community.

After starting her career as a labor and employment attorney in New York and Washington, Shelley joined UW in 2004 as an Assistant Attorney General in the UW Division. In 2007, she transitioned to the Office for Academic Personnel and Faculty (APF) as Assistant Vice Provost under former Vice Provost Cheryl Cameron.

During her tenure, Shelley managed a broad and comprehensive portfolio, including employee relations, risk management, policy development and analysis, and representing APF on numerous UW-wide committees. From 2007 to 2023, she also oversaw the Office of Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action (EOAA), where she played a pivotal role in ensuring compliance during affirmative action audits, with the most recent resulting in no findings by the U.S. Department of Labor’s OFCCP.

Shelley was also a cornerstone of UW’s labor relations, serving on management bargaining teams for postdoctoral scholars, medical and dental residents, librarians, and extension lecturers.

Her dedication, strategic insights, and tireless efforts have left a lasting legacy. While Shelley will deeply miss collaborating with the many campus partners she has supported throughout her career, her contributions will continue to shape UW for years to come.

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Shelley for her two decades of outstanding service and wish her all the best in her retirement!

Several key changes are being introduced for the 2024-2025 Promotion and Tenure (P&T) process that will affect both preparation and submission of records. Key updates include revisions to Faculty Code 24-54, which now require substantial summaries of faculty discussion and votes, as well as sharing of elected faculty council reports and chair/director/campus dean/dean/chancellor independent assessments with candidates in all cases. Additionally, new guidance clarifies that unit and SCC leaders are not eligible to vote on cases they assess, and postponement discussions will occur only after non-favorable mandatory promotion votes.

To streamline administrative work, units are reminded to ensure all candidate records in Workday are fully up-to-date before submission. The Workday report R0722 Academic Promotion/Tenure Data Issues can be used to identify data issues impacting promotion-eligible faculty and librarians. New adjunct appointments should not be made during the review year to avoid complications. All P&T records will be submitted electronically via SharePoint, starting November 4, 2024. To make the process easier, it is recommended that submitted PDFs include bookmarks for easier navigation.

Key Dates for the 2024-2025 Cycle:

• November 4, 2024: SharePoint folders open for submissions.
  December 16, 2024: Mandatory promotion and/or tenure records due.
  February 3, 2025: Non-mandatory early promotion and/or tenure records due.
  April 11, 2025: Librarian promotion records due.

For questions or assistance, contact the Office of Academic Personnel and Faculty (APF) at acadpers@uw.edu.

Resources from the 2024-2025 Promotion and Tenure Cycle training are available on the APF website P&T Process pages and Training Resources page.

As part of the implementation of Executive Order 59 (EO59), a new Temporary Pay Supplement (TPS) allowance plan recently replaced several Period Activity Pay options when compensating academic personnel for temporary work beyond their regular duties.

As we transition to the new compensation process, please ensure you use the TPP-Temporary Pay Supplement earning code when assigning costing allocations for Temporary Pay Supplement allowance plans, not the TPS-Temporary Supplement earning code. The TPS-Temporary Supplement earning code should only be used for Period Activity Pay. The TPP-Temporary Pay Supplement earning code ensures the costing override on the Temporary Pay Supplement allowance is correctly applied.

Please take time t to confirm that the costing overrides for your Temporary Pay Supplement allowance plans use the correct TPP earning code and make any necessary corrections in Workday. Run the “All Workers Costing Allocations – With Prompts” report and use the Earnings column to filter the report by TPS-Temporary Supplement and/or TPP-Temporary Pay Supplement. If you have a costing override for Temporary Pay Supplement allowance plans using the incorrect TPS earning, initiate a Payroll Accounting Adjustment (PAA) to ensure the payment has the correct TPP costing and work tags. For step-by-step guidance, refer to the Payroll Accounting Adjustment User Guide.

For more information about costing overrides, refer to the Assign Costing Allocations User Guide. For a complete overview of Temporary Pay Supplements and EO59, we encourage you to visit the Additional Compensation page.