Faculty Handbook Revision Committee

Membership

Year below indicates end of term in June.
Bryan Ruppert, Associate Teaching Professor & Chair | AY 26
David R. Lance, Associate Provost | Provost Appointee, no term | ex-officio
Nicholas Huntington-Klein, Assistant Professor | Elected by AcA, ASB 26
Mo-Kyung Sin, Associate Professor | Elected by AcA, CON 23
Sarah Watstein, Dean | Provost Appointee, LIB 23

Purview

Assists the Provost in maintaining and updating material in the Faculty Handbook. Amendments to the Handbook may be proposed in writing to this committee by any of the following: President, Provost, any departmental/academic unit by motion passed at a departmental/academic unit meeting, the Academic Assembly, the Council of Deans, any full-time faculty member (including professional librarians and administrators holding academic rank) with the written endorsement of 10 additional faculty members.

Authority

Recommendatory to the President, through the Provost, for submission to the Board of Trustees.

Meetings

Monthly.

Membership

The Faculty Handbook Revision Committee shall be a committee coordinated by the Academic Assembly. The Vice President of Academic Assembly will chair the committee. Three faculty members who are not members of the Academic Assembly will be appointed to the committee by the Academic Assembly. The Provost shall appoint a Dean and another tenured or tenure-track faculty member to the committee. The Provost will serve on the committee ex officio and be a non-voting member. The four faculty members other than the Vice President of the Academic Assembly will serve staggered three year terms, and each will represent a different school or college.

Reports to

Provost and Academic Assembly.

Minutes Distribution

Committee communicates its recommendations or decisions to the proposal initiator and to other concerned parties.

History

The Faculty Handbook Revision Committee was formed upon the approval of the Faculty Handbook in 1986. Before the inception of the Faculty Handbook, a Statutes Revision Committee existed to make academic policy changes.

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July 1, 2023

Faculty Handbook

As a community of teachers and scholars, the faculty acknowledges the University’s religious and cultural traditions and seeks, in a wide variety of ways, to contribute through the professional endeavors of its members to the Jesuit ethos. Seattle University faculty members respect the religious dimension of human life, which is a central element of Jesuit philosophy.

As a community of teachers and scholars, Seattle University is bound together by the common goals of the University’s mission, mutual respect for diversity, and a belief in the transformative power of education. The University possesses the freedom to define and pursue its own mission, independent of external influence. The University maintains its autonomy to determine its curriculum, its pedagogies, its scholarly and creative pursuits, its strategic priorities, and its community membership.