New faculty appointments requiring a search:

Searches are required at the assistant professor level and higher, for both tenure-eligible and research appointments. They are also required for the positions of Lecturer and Senior Lecturer if the appointment is expected to be for more than one year. A faculty vote is required for all these positions.

Faculty may be appointed to professorial or research professorial ranks on less than a full-time basis. The percentage of appointment must be clearly documented at the time of hire. If an assistant professor appointment is less than 90 percent, the time before a mandatory tenure decision is extended. See http://www.washington.edu/admin/acadpers/wp/Assistant_Professor.html

The department shall appoint a search committee to solicit nominations and otherwise identify suitable candidates. Advertisements for the position must be reviewed/approved by the Assistant Provost for Equal Opportunity (Equal Opportunity Office) prior to posting. That committee shall obtain and review data for all candidates and evaluate their suitability for the appointment. When a qualified candidate is identified, a recommendation for appointment is sent to the department chairperson.

The chairperson shall submit all available information concerning that candidate to the voting members of the department faculty. If a majority votes in favor of an appointment, a recommendation, with all relevant information attached, is sent to the dean.

If the chairperson concurs with the department recommendation, the dean shall make a decision concerning the appointment and, if it is favorable, shall forward it, the vote of the department and the recommendation of the chairperson to the Provost.

If the chairperson does not concur in the department recommendation, his or her objections may be sent to the dean. A different recommendation from among the candidates who have been considered by the department may also be sent to the dean by the chairperson. The dean, upon the advice of the School of Pharmacy promotion and tenure committee, may then ask the department to reconsider its recommendation given expressed concerns and/or any new information. The department may then either reaffirm its original recommendation, or transmit a new one.

After the department's final recommendation has been sent to the dean, the dean shall make a decision concerning the appointment and, if an appointment is to be recommended, send it with the final recommendation of the department and the recommendation of the chair to the president.

Faculty appointments with no search requirement:

A department vote (but no search) is required for adjuncts, affiliates, visiting faculty, teaching associates, lecturers and senior lecturers appointed for one year or less, joint appointments and clinical appointments.

Neither a faculty vote nor a search is required for research associates, senior fellows and fellows, or visiting scientists.

The recommendation of the chairperson, which may support the appointment or not, and approval of the dean is required. In the case of an adjunct or joint appointment, the concurrence from chairperson of the home department is required, and for an adjunct appointment, concurrence of the dean of the home department's school is required.