Academic Personnel

The Office of Academic Personnel & Faculty (APF) as well as the faculty code set the regulations and guidelines for faculty, including processes for appointment, reappointment, promotion, retention, and merit. 

Hiring Processes

• Annual hiring cycle
• New permanent faculty hires - position management
• New temporary faculty hires - job management
• New Postdoctoral Scholar or Artist in Residence Hires
• New joint faculty appointments
• Endowed and term professorship appointments

Hiring Resources

• Chair/Director's letter for new hires
• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Hiring Foreign Nationals

• Reappointment procedures
• Summary table of reappointment requirements
• Term appointment lengths
• Endowed reappointment procedures

• A guide to the documentation
• Promotion and tenure guidelines
• Promotion and tenure timeline
• Submitting a promotion case
• Term appointment lengths
• Affiliate and Annually-Appointed Clinical Faculty Title Changes

• Fellowship salary support policy
• Leave types and procedures
• Dean’s memo on leaves
• Leave allocation guidelines
• Leaves and vacancies replacements

• General information about salaries, compensation
• Salary release-recapture policy
• Outside professional work
• Relocation incentive payment
• Teaching@UW: Strategies, Resources, and Connections for New UW Faculty
• See also the section on Finance and Operations

• Chair Appointments
• Competitive and pre-emptive offers
• Department bylaws
• Faculty Conference with Chair
• Instructional Responsibility Policy
• Junior Faculty Development Program
• Retirement and resignation letters
• Scientific and scholarly misconduct
• Standing committees
• Teaching duties
• Voting procedures