Dear Colleagues:

The University of Oregon faculty is the foundation for this great university’s success as an internationally prestigious comprehensive research university. Our excellence as an academy is maintained by the faculty’s leadership in realizing our educational mission.

I urge you to become familiar with the chapters of this handbook that address the commitments we have made as a professoriate to maintain the highest standards of academic excellence. These chapters address our joint responsibilities for campus governance, academic freedom, effective teaching, quality research, and constituent service. They describe the multiple responsibilities and opportunities we have as faculty at the university to exercise leadership and responsibility in our academic and community endeavors.

The university is committed to fostering the development of learning and working environments characterized by professional and ethical behavior and free from discrimination. These chapters provide resources and guidelines to help you to realize to the fullest extent your professional opportunities in an environment that is dedicated to the principles of equality of opportunity.

The tradition of faculty governance at the University of Oregon was established with the university’s charter and is recognized in our state laws. Together, we have responsibility for governing the institution in all matters of academic policy and student discipline. I invite you to join in the leadership of this institution.

Sincerely,

Dave Frohnmayer

President