Hello Kate, The University of Washington uses a two-prong approach to administrative policies. We have established:
* Executive Orders - the type of deliberative policy where many units work together to draft the policy, various committees, including our Faculty Senate's councils review the draft (a shared-governance model) and the UW President is the final "owner" and signs off on the final language of the policy. * Administrative Policy Statements - generally, this is a policy that spells out how the UW will comply with a federal or state mandated function or action and usually involves authority that is completely delegated to an individual Vice President (and occasionally more than one). For instance, the "Red Flag Rules" for spotting identity theft of credit cards falls under our Senior VP for finance exclusively. Her signature is the final sign-off and the policy does not require the shared -governance by faculty councils or other groups unconnected with financial procedures. However, these are distinctions that are behind the scenes for the average policy user - who will locate both types of administrative policy through a single search function on our UW Policy Directory<http://www.washington.edu/admin/rules/policies/index.shtml> website. Hope this helps, Rebecca Rebecca Goodwin Deardorff Director of Rules Coordination Office of the President Box 351210 Seattle, WA 98195 206-543-9219 www.washington.edu/rules [http://www.washington.edu/marketing/e-communications/wsignature.gif] From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ms. Kathryn A. Yerkes Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 10:21 AM To: Institutional policy-related discussions Cc: [email protected] Subject: RE:[acupa-l] Policy Language Hi Rachel and all - can I piggyback on your question? I am currently wrestling with this topic, too, albeit more broadly - what is the most appropriate way to manage policies that come from external regulation that fall into the "compliance" policy bucket? They are generally institutional in nature (at least by our institutional policy definition), but I am really starting to see these as their own unique type/category for multiple reasons - they seem to me to be by their nature in substance and process (how they are developed and written, not much room for campus review/vetting - usually can't do much with individual's wishes or recommendations about content, etc.) very different from internally developed policies the institution wishes to put in place to codify its own activities and expectations, behavioral and otherwise. Given that my institution's policy function is much newer than many, I would appreciate any guidance on this topic from those of you with more experience, including the kinds of language that you use in your policy development policies... Thanks, Kate ________________________________ From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of Rachel Grace King <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 11:49 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [acupa-l] Policy Language Good Morning Everyone, We are revising our Policy Development and Approval policy. We would like to add language in about expedited review for situations that may arise where we have to expedite the policies because of federal regulations, etc. Would you mind sharing any language that you have in your policy development policies' that address this? Thank you in advance! 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