Washington State University
Faculty Senate
Representing All Faculty Across the WSU System
Faculty Forum
To facilitate communications about ideas, suggestions, opinions, and feedback the constituent concerns page has been updated to the faculty forum. In addition to posting your concerns, you are welcome to add suggestions for solutions and ideas for improving WSU, as well as kudos — what you see that is going well.
Proposal Tracking
The Faculty Senate meets on the first and third Thursday of every month to move forward on actionable processes relating to new degrees and a variety of changes to academic proposals. For ease of access, the Faculty Senate keeps a tracking sheet of agenda items and pending new degrees.
Meeting Agendas
Please see below for the Faculty Senate meeting agendas
Highlights
Draft FY26 Key Performance Indicators Update
The BOR 6 Policy for Presidential Performance Evaluation states that Board of Regents will evaluate the president of Washington State University on an annual basis. The President’s FY26 key performance indicators as presented will serve as the basis for the president’s 2025 – 2026 annual evaluation (PDF)
Washington State University Budget Document FY26
Washington State University remains committed to providing transparent, consistent, and digestible financial information to the Board of Regents and to the system community. In support of this effort, the 2026 Budget Document is available to articulate the annual financial plan for the 2026 fiscal year (PDF)
Nominations for the WSU Honorary Doctoral Degree due November 1
Faculty, staff, and students are invited to submit nominations for the recipient of Washington State University’s honorary doctoral degree (PDF)
Special Faculty Forum with Administration
The Faculty Senate received a motion to facilitate a public forum during the March 21, 2024 Senate meeting (PDF).