Administrative Resources

Committees

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.

Faculty Activity Reports

Annual Faculty Activity Report are due to your Dean annually. Templates for this can be found here.

Faculty Handbook

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.

Faculty Meeting Schedule

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.

Phased Retirement Plan

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.

Standard Course Load for Full-Time Tenure Stream Faculty

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.