UW Chapter AAUP Executive Board meeting MINUTES

Wednesday January 20, 2016, 3 pm to 5 pm

UW Club

ADOPTED

UW AAUP Supports Innovation Showcase Recognizing UW Contributions to the Public Good

University of Washington faculty, through their innovative and diverse scholarship, have made major intellectual contributions to the world around us and contributed immeasurably to the public good.  Faculty innovation is the primary driver of UW’s consistently high rankings on national and international assessments of research impacts. The University of Washington chapter of the American Association of University Professors strongly endorses the findings in the Report of the Innovation Exhibition Exπploratory Committee (December 2013) and urges the UW administration to proceed in a timely manner to act on its conclusions. Of the recommendations of that Exploratory Committee, we support in particular the ideas of a "Scholars Walk" as at our sister institutions, The University of Minnesota at Minneapolis St. Paul (see ref) and at Stanford University. In addition, we encourage the establishment of an internet-based "Virtual Museum" to recognize the innovative contributions to knowledge by faculty, students and staff at UW. The museum content and scholars walk could include patents, highly cited papers, Nobel and other noteworthy prizes, major discoveries, public service achievements, etc. AAUP-UW recommends a committee of faculty members should provide guidance and oversight about the display’s contents. See http://www.scholarswalk.umn.edu/