Academic Personnel

The Office of Academic Personnel (OAP) 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
• Endowed reappointment procedures

• A guide to the documentation
• Promotion and tenure guidelines
• Promotion and tenure timeline
• Submitting a promotion case
• 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
• 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

The academic personnel team manages the fiscal and administrative matters of the College and provides guidance and assistance to the deans and units of the College on personnel, payroll matters, and the day-to-day business functioning of the College. If you have questions regarding these topics, reach out to the CAS Personnel Team.