Part 1:  Conditions of Faculty Employment
				4,872 people held faculty appointments at the University of Washington as of Autumn 2002. The number may be slightly smaller today. We are distributed across three campuses, sixteen colleges, and two hospitals.  We work in very different ways: some mostly as teachers, some mostly as researchers, others mostly as doctors caring for patients. Some of us have security of employment, many do not. Some of us are represented by the Faculty Senate and participate in governance, others do not. The salary range is enormous. At the low end, there are faculty members working full time for less than $30,000. In this section we look at the trajectory of employment conditions over the past seven years. For [notes] and more data see the web version at http://staff.washington.edu/uwaaup
				This 2003 State of the Faculty Report Card is produced and distributed by the University of Washington chapter of the American Association of University Professors. The eighteen members of the AAUP Executive Committee are responsible for the grades and assessments. For more than 80 years, AAUP has been the guardian of academic freedom, shared governance, and tenure at the University of Washington and universities throughout the United States.  AAUP operates on both a national and campus level, sustained by the 45,000 members whose dues insure that faculty will have a strong voice. The UW chapter was founded in 1918 and helped create the Faculty Senate and the system of tenure at UW. The names of AAUP members today grace some of the campus's best-known buildings. Professors Padelford, Parrington, Savery, McMahon, and Smith were all members. Shouldn't you be? For more information about the chapter and the national organization visit: http://staff.washington.edu/uwaaup/ Next Page Front Page Notes
	"AAUP has been the guardian of academic freedom, shared governance, and tenure at the University of Washington since 1918."