# Appointment Actions

**Source**: https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/actions/
**Parent**: https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/

The Office for Academic Personnel and Faculty (APF) offers a comprehensive set of online resources to support appointment actions for faculty, librarians, and unit administrators across all appointment categories.

Appointment actions encompass the key processes that shape academic careers. These include academic reviews, which assess faculty performance and scholarly contributions; merit and related salary adjustments that acknowledge professional growth; and promotion and tenure decisions, which represent major career milestones. Appointment actions also involve reappointments that ensure continuity in academic roles and separations, including retirements, that recognize dedicated service to the University. Together, these processes uphold academic standards and support the diverse professional journeys of academic personnel across the UW.

## Merit & Salary Adjustments

Guidance for annual merit and unit salary increases, including eligibility, performance factors used in salary decisions, required documentation, salary-level review expectations, unit roles in planning, and definitions of key terms such as merit, additional merit, and unit adjustments.

[Read more on Merit](https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/actions/merit-salary-adjustments/)

## Promotion & Tenure

Guidance on the procedures and expectations for promotion and tenure at the UW, including deadlines for submitting cases, required documentation and workflows, unit-level and school/college-level review steps, external evaluation letters, criteria for promotion/tenure, and possible outcomes.

[View the P&T Navigator](https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/actions/promotions-tenure/)

## Reappointments

Guidance on how reappointments work for UW academic personnel with fixed-term appointments, including eligibility criteria; how units submit reappointment decisions (centrally or locally); notification and deadline requirements; required documentation; possible changes in title, rank, or roster status; and procedures for non-reappointment.

[Read more on Reappointments](https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/actions/reappointments/)

## Separations

Guidance on voluntary and involuntary separations of UW academic personnel, including resignations, retirements, non-reappointments, and terminations “for cause.” Provides an overview of procedures for submitting notice; required documentation (e.g., resignation or retirement letters, approvals); Workday processing instructions; treatment of visa-sponsored and secondary appointments; and links to related policies on ending appointments, retirements, and special-title separations.

[Read more on separations](https://ap.washington.edu/ahr/actions/terminations/)