Major academic dates and critical deadlines for the 2025-26 academic year.

Administrative Resources
A complete list of all university committees, including Board, Faculty, Administrative, Academic/Advisory, and ad hoc committees. The committee charges, descriptions, memberships, and past histories are also included.
Annual Faculty Activity Report are due to your Dean annually. Templates for this can be found here.
The Faculty Handbook contains vital information on such topics as faculty appointments, academic freedom, tenure, promotion, and evaluation, the phased retirement program, and university governance. It is available online.
This page provides the schedule of faculty meetings along with links to the university calendar and five year planning calendar. Archived records are available for reference.
The Phased Retirement Program (PRP) allows a Faculty member to retire at or before the age of 70 by means of a gradual transition from full-time teaching to full retirement. The PRP was revised in September 2022.
After a lengthy analytical review of W&L faculty course teaching loads across all academic divisions, including a comparison of teaching loads with those of elite peer institutions, W&L is revising its faculty course teaching load policy.
Simplifying the course evaluation process and converting results into actionable next steps.
Timetables, guidelines, templates, and processes related to the tenure and promotion process in the College and the Williams School.