Last year, the 91探花was ranked 17^th.

Kiplinger’s data shows that the cost for in-state students, after need-based aid, was $10,355 per year. Average debt at graduation was $20,800.

The 91探花was ranked 18^th best value for out-of-state students at $29,929 per year after need-based aid.

The rankings take into account admission rate, student-faculty ratio, the freshman retention rate and the four-year graduation rate.听 Cost criteria include overall student expenses, financial aid (excluding loans) and average debt at graduation.

The annual rankings appear in .

That work, combined with a new tool for visualizing and analyzing the data and new dashboards for exploring trends, is bringing about a culture change in strategic decision-making at the university.

The keys to this change are the ongoing development of the as the UW鈥檚 source of major institutional data, the selection of as the preferred tool for data visualization, and the release of , a set of Web-based dashboards that provide a dynamic way to explore and analyze basic institutional data.

91探花Profiles were created jointly by the Office of Planning & Budgeting and 91探花Information Technology. They allow users to explore and aggregate data at any level of the institution 鈥� university, campus, school, college or department.

鈥� 91探花Profiles are an important step toward uniform, agreed-upon institutional data and analytics at the University,鈥� said Paul Jenny, vice provost for Planning & Budgeting.

The first release of 91探花Profiles consists of a series of dashboards on academic data, including enrollment, credit and degree production, student progress, and more. Projected for next year are dashboards on financial information and spending. Activity-based budgeting dashboards will also be produced.

鈥� 91探花Profiles lowers the barrier to effective decision making,鈥� said Kelli Trosvig, vice president for 91探花Information Technology and chief information officer. 鈥淚t offers a broad range of validated information that lets people focus on the meaning and implication of trends.鈥�

“Over time, we think the ease of use of the new tools 鈥� based on validated, defined institutional data 鈥� will have a major impact on the creation of so-called ‘shadow systems’ for data storage and analysis,” said Anja Canfield-Budde, of the office of information management.

91探花Profiles was developed using Tableau, a data visualization tool now available to the 91探花community. Tableau allows users to create interactive graphics, reports and dashboards more easily than was previously possible.

鈥淭ableau makes it easier and faster to share information,鈥� said Bart Pietrzak, business intelligence solutions architect at UW-IT.听 “Under previous systems, a request for a specific report might take six weeks to process. But with this new system, in one six-week period a single individual was able to create multiple dynamic dashboards. A tool such as Tableau is the right one for this job. It allows the analyst to be in charge without having to rely on the expertise of a programmer or coder.”

Tableau creates information online in a way that is easily shared within or across working groups, Pietrzak added. And it’s very easy to change the display as new questions and issues arise in the course of analysis.

Tableau and 91探花Profiles together can be seen as key tools in a field known as “business intelligence,” a growing trend in the public and private sectors for analyzing masses of data as an aid in strategic decision-making. are now available free to faculty for a specific class, and to full-time students. Canfield-Budde expects it will be used in many classes where business intelligence is taught, but also serves any kind of analysis in which visualization of data is important. Tableau is available at a discount for 91探花staff and research faculty. The 91探花has the highest number of students taking advantage of Tableau for Students worldwide.

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What do you think are the most important issues facing the Faculty Senate this year? Relatedly, what accomplishments would you like to see from the Senate that would make this a “good year” for you?

My top five priorities for this year are fixing the faculty salary policy; creating a more equitable, stable, and rewarding career track for lecturers; rationalizing and updating the university鈥檚 intellectual property policy; planning long-term strategy for online education; and updating the university鈥檚 policy on academic freedom.听 Of those, probably the two most urgent are the salary policy and lecturers; if we can make good progress on fixing those two problems, it will unquestionably have been a good year.

An unresolved issue from last year’s senate is a revision to the Faculty Code regarding academic freedom. What are the key changes in the code and how might they affect the working life of faculty members now or in the future?

The Code revisions have been drafted, and were approved by the Senate and by the president 鈥� you can see the latest version in the .听 Assuming they are approved in the SEC, in their second Senate vote on December 4, and by the president in their final form, they will become part of the code in December.

Amazingly, the current section of the Faculty Code titled 鈥淎cademic Freedom and Responsibility,鈥� enacted in 1956 and unchanged since then, says a lot about responsibility but almost nothing about academic freedom. This new statement, worked out in a careful collaborative process between faculty and administrators, fixes that.听 It now states clearly that faculty members have the 鈥渇reedom to discuss all relevant matters in their teaching, to explore all avenues of scholarship, research, and creative expression, and to speak or write without institutional discipline or restraint on matters of public concern as well as on matters related to shared governance and the general welfare of the University.鈥�

We don鈥檛 perceive any threat to academic freedom in the foreseeable future, but the statement will be there in the code if future generations of faculty ever need it.

Salary compression is a difficult problem to solve, given tight budgets in the state and at the university. You’ve been at the 91探花since 1987.听 Are there any policies, proposed or adopted over that 26-year span that impressed you as making a real difference in compression? Or are there items currently under discussion that give you hope for the future?

The single most important change in salary policy since I arrived was the adoption of the 2000 faculty salary policy, which provided for 听7.5% promotion raises, regular equal-percentage salary increases (generally 2%) for all meritorious faculty members, and, when available, additional salary increases that could be allocated differentially based on merit.听 These innovations (especially the promotion raises) ensured that at least some effort would be made to provide a reasonable career salary trajectory for long-serving faculty members.听 In the mid-2000s, the administration made a concerted effort to inject more funds into faculty salaries in an attempt to close the huge gap between 91探花faculty salaries and those of peers, but that progress was quickly erased by the 2008-2013 salary freeze.

A joint faculty/administration committee appointed by President Young (of which Bob Stacey and I are co-chairs) has been working for the past year and a half on a proposal for a radically new faculty salary policy, based on a system of 鈥渢ier promotions鈥� within each rank that would come with fixed percentage raises. We will be rolling out the proposal over the next couple of months. Our initial conversations with faculty members and deans suggest that most will see this as a strong way to motivate and reward excellence on the faculty, while providing a reliable path to career salary advancement based on merit.

Does the Senate have representation from contingent faculty? Do Senators see them as competition or colleagues, or maybe both? Are we likely to see any policy recommendation from faculty councils on this issue?

The Senate represents all voting faculty members, which includes most contingent faculty. The nonvoting exceptions are clinical faculty, affiliate faculty, and part-time lecturers.

Since I鈥檝e been here, there has been a slow but steady push to integrate contingent faculty members more and more into the fabric of the 91探花faculty.听 Full-time lecturers have been voting members of the faculty (and thus have had representation on the Faculty Senate) as long as I can remember, and research faculty were given the vote in 2002.听 There have been various attempts to extend voting rights to part-time lecturers, but these have been defeated.

I think it鈥檚 fair to say that tenure-track faculty members generally see most contingent faculty members very much as colleagues. But there has been some hesitation about integrating part-time lecturers to the same extent, perhaps because there are so many different ways that departments use part-time lecturers, some of which are only peripherally connected to the intellectual lives of their departments

As I mentioned above, a priority this year is to work on establishing more professional working conditions for lecturers.

We are seeing an incremental growth in online degree offerings. How would you like to see the Senate engaged in this from a policy perspective?

Recently, at the urging of Faculty Senate leaders, Provost Cauce appointed a task force led by Jim Gregory (past chair of the Senate and current chair of the Senate Committee on Planning and Budgeting) and Betsy Wilson (Dean of University Libraries and Vice Provost for Digital Initiatives) to study and make recommendations about the role of online education at UW. It鈥檚 my hope that this task force can think strategically about how online education can and should figure into the 91探花mission in the next five to ten years, and make recommendations about how best to use this new technology to expand educational opportunities without compromising quality.

How did you become interested in shared governance? Do you view this as part of your “job” as a faculty member?

I served a few terms on the Senate before I ever got into a leadership role.听 I guess I do think that level of service is part of my job. During one of those terms, I became involved in one of the committees assigned to draft code changes implementing the 2000 faculty salary policy. That鈥檚 the first time I started getting a glimpse of the workings of shared governance. But I never considered getting involved on this level until some friends urged me to consider allowing myself to be nominated for Senate vice chair.听听 My answer was easy and immediate: no! But when they came back again and tried to convince me, I started thinking about the people I鈥檇 be working with most closely: the 2012鈥�2013 chair Jim Gregory and Provost Ana Mari Cauce, both of whom I knew and liked very much; our new President Mike Young, who showed signs of taking shared governance very seriously; and Secretary of the Faculty Marcia Killien and Faculty Legislative Representative Jim Fridley, both of whom I had seen in action and had enormous respect for. I decided that this would be as good a time as any to do my part in trying to make shared governance work well, so (as I sometimes say, in a moment of temporary insanity), I agreed to let myself be nominated. And here I am.

“I’ve been talking to Bill about this since I joined the faculty in 2007,” says Cuong Vu, head of jazz studies.听 “For us 鈥� for Richard Karpen [director of the School of Music] and me 鈥� this was a no-brainer. Although Bill travels a lot and his time in Seattle is likely to be small initially, with a faculty appointment [as affiliate professor of music] he’ll be more likely to come to the UW. He’ll become more conscious of what we’re doing and is more likely to become a part of it.”

Frisell’s home is in Seattle, but most of his time is spent on the road. His shows him crisscrossing the country over the next few months, playing mostly with his Big Sur Quintet, whose was recorded earlier this year.听 Frisell’s musical energy is prodigious: He has released 10 albums over the past 2陆 years. Critics have called him “the most eclectic and creative musician around.” His notes collaborators ranging from Burt Bacharach to Elvis Costello and the Brazilian singer-songwriter Vinicius Centuaria.

Frisell’s music has its roots in the improvisatory nature of jazz, but his sources of inspiration come from a broad spectrum.听 A New York Times article noted, “It is hard to find a more fruitful meditation on American music than in the compositions of guitarist Bill Frisell. Mixing rock and country with jazz and blues, he’s found what connects us: improvisation and a sense of play. Unlike other pastichists, who tend to duck passion, Mr. Frisell plays up the pleasure in the music and also takes on an often-avoided subject, tenderness.”

Frisell, 62, is looking forward to working more with students.听 “Every day with my music now I don’t feel any different than I did when I was 12 years old. Music is an infinite thing. We all struggle to move ahead and find out what to do. I learn by playing and talking about the music, and I will get as much from the students as they might get from me. Someone asks me a good question and I re-evaluate 鈥� it helps me focus on the problems I’m having on my musical journey. It’s not like I’m teaching: we’re all in the same boat.

“I’ve lived in Seattle since 1989, but I travel so much. This opportunity will help me develop deeper connections in town. I see a growing community of musicians here; even those who move away are coming back.听 With Cuong’s leadership and Richard’s vision, with the Caf茅 Racer sessions, they’re creating a stronger web of connections. It helps brings different scenes together. Those convergences are exciting.”

Vu has known Frisell for over a decade. “I’m a huge fan of his music. He was an important voice in my musical upbringing.听 To have someone of that caliber just walking through our halls will cause people to gravitate to him.

“As time goes by, my hope is for him to have a more regular position on the faculty. But for now, when he’s in town and he thinks, ‘I want to play,’ he’ll think of the 91探花as a place to develop ideas. This is how music happens in the real world.”

Frisell will be performing at Meany Hall with his Big Sur Quintet as part of the . Good seats are still available.

Photo credit: M Levin/U Photographers

鈥淛ohn is a very solid and capable leader and understands so many aspects of the several disciplines involved in shaping our built environments,鈥� said Cauce. 鈥淗e is the right person to move the college forward and is a great consensus builder. We are delighted he is willing to take on this assignment.鈥�

Schaufelberger has been serving as interim dean since 2012.听 He has been at the 91探花since 1994, rising through the ranks from assistant to full professor in 2008 and serving as chair of the Department of Construction Management since 2002.

He has a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the University of Idaho (1964), and a master’s and doctorate in civil engineering from the University of Illinois (1970, 1971).

Schaufelberger was an assistant professor in engineering at the U.S. Military Academy from 1972 to 1975.听 He was an officer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1964 to 1994, serving in a variety of positions with military units in Saudi Arabia, Germany, Korea, Vietnam and the United States. He came to the 91探花in 1994 as an assistant professor of construction management.

He is the author or co-author of four books on construction management, has published a number of scholarly articles and presented research at many national conferences.听 His research interests include contract procurement and project delivery methods, construction project management, both domestic and international, and the business practices of construction firms.

In 2009, he received the Brian D. Dunfield Educational Service Award by the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International, in recognition of his teaching and writing contributions to the profession of cost engineering.听 He also was elected in 2009 to the National Academy of Construction for his contributions to construction education and to the construction industry.

Schaufelberger was chair of the 91探花Faculty Senate Council on Academic Standards from July 2008 to June 2012. He also served as chair of the Faculty Senate Council on University Facilities from July 1998 to June 2006.

His salary will be $181,656.

The events include:

• Nov. 5, 5:30-7 p.m., HUB, alumni/student veteran reception.
• Nov. 6, 1-3 p.m., Clark Hall, ROTC open house.
• Nov. 6, 4-6 p.m., 91探花Bothell alumni/student veteran reception.
• Nov. 7, 3:30-5 p.m., HUB, veterans career resource fair and panel.
• Nov. 7, 6:30-8 p.m., Kane Hall, lecture by Acting U.S. Surgeon General Boris Lushniak.
• Nov. 8, 2:30-4 p.m., Odegaard Undergraduate Library, workshop on teaching student veterans.
• Nov. 9, Husky Stadium, Husky football’s “Committed to Service” game and recognition of 2013-14 Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award recipient.
• Nov. 11, 11 a.m., Medal of Honor Memorial, Veterans Day celebration and ceremony.

The events are coordinated by the 91探花Alumni Association, which has more information and registration details on its .

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“We are thrilled to have a public radio executive of Caryn鈥檚 talent and abilities coming to the station, the 91探花and our community to lead this wonderful public radio enterprise,鈥� said Norm Arkans, 91探花associate vice president of media relations and communications. 鈥淪he has had great success wherever she has been and brings a fresh perspective and genuine passion for the role of public media in our society.听 Seattle and all of Puget Sound just got to be an even better place than it already is.”

As general manager of WAMU, the premier National Public Radio affiliate in the Washington/Baltimore area, Mathes has expanded the station’s service to six radio frequencies and four Internet streams serving 812,000 listeners weekly. The station is currently ranked first among public radio stations nationally for its share of regional audience.

Under her leadership, the contributor base at WAMU has increased by 58 percent to nearly 56,500 active contributors; private sector revenue has increased by more than 200 percent. The total operating reserve has increased from $382,000 in 2005 to more than $15 million in fiscal year 2012, with 70 percent of that reserve invested in a new 50,000-square-foot media center.

WAMU expanded its major giving program and grew its revenue base, setting a solid foundation for the acquisition of a new media center in Washington, D.C., and the launch of a $20 million philanthropic effort to support the development of new programs and audiences.

“Caryn is a dynamic leader and will guide the station to be an even greater resource for our community,鈥� said Joan Enticknap, who heads the Puget Sound Public Radio Board. “She will raise its sights and grow its impact, and we will all be the better for it. The Board of PSPR is very excited about her joining the station.”

WAMU produces the widely syndicated “Diane Rehm Show,” the world wildlife conservation show “Animal House,” award-winning local news and a bluegrass/traditional American music channel.

Mathes was general manager of WDET in Detroit from 1984 to 2005 and also served as assistant vice president of university communications at Wayne State University from 1989 to 1991.

“I am driven by and thrive on building public media organizations; the future of civil society depends on the foundation of a well-informed population capable of nuanced thought,” Mathes says. “KUOW is poised to be a leader in public media’s ‘next chapters’ on audience, content and technology and I know we will do great things in this regard.”

Mathes is a member of the NPR board of directors and also serves on the board of the University Station Alliance and participates in the Major Stations Advisory Group to NPR’s chief executive.

She has received numerous awards, including the 2013 Washington Business Journal “Women Who Mean Business” award. She received the Woman of Distinction Award in 2007 from the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders and was selected as one of Michigan’s top African American Leaders in 2002 by Corp! magazine.

Mathes holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in professional journalism from Indiana State University. She began her electronic media career as co-anchor at CBS affiliate WTHI-TV Channel 10 in Terre Haute, Ind., at the age of 19. She worked in commercial radio in reporter and anchor positions at WCKY-AM in Cincinnati and Detroit鈥檚 WJR-AM before making the switch to noncommercial radio in 1982.

The mission of KUOW is to create and serve an informed public, one challenged and invigorated by an understanding and appreciation of events, ideas and cultures. KUOW serves communities in the Puget Sound region, Western Washington and Southern British Columbia. The station is licensed to the 91探花, which is assisted in its operation and management by KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio, a private, non鈥損rofit corporation established in 1999 and governed by a community board. More than 89 percent of KUOW’s applied revenue comes from individual and business support, while the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the 91探花 provide 9 percent.

The grant was presented by Attorney General Bob Ferguson in an event at the UW’s Oct. 17.

The grant, to , research scientist, and her colleagues at the Institute, will assess and address gaps in science-based training and education for a number of groups: staff of community organizations that provide information to individuals suffering from chronic pain, health care providers and the general public.

“Chronic pain is a major public health issue,” Carlini said. “This project will offer non-judgmental, science-based information to clinicians and to the general public on the role of medical marijuana as an option in alleviating intractable pain in our state.”

The ultimate goal of the project is to increase awareness of the options available to treat pain and other medical conditions, and to decrease unnecessary suffering among people living with chronic pain. The project will provide and information and education about medical conditions and populations for whom cannabis is recommended, and for whom it is not recommended, as well as possible side effects and risks.

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The class includes 4,211 freshmen who are Washington residents.听 The freshman class was drawn from a record number of more than 30,000 applicants, an increase of 16 percent over the previous year. Because of this increase, the admission rate declined from 59.1 percent to 55 percent.

The class includes 3,285 women (52.8 percent) and 2,970 men (47.2 percent).

The freshman class includes students from more than 1,150 high schools around the world. The top three Washington high schools for 91探花freshmen are Skyline (93 students), Newport (88) and Inglemoor (83). The top three countries for international students in the freshman class are China (687 students), South Korea (75) and Taiwan (70).听 International students number 974 or 15.6 percent of the class.

Some 28.3 percent of freshmen when they complete their baccalaureate studies will be the first in their family to graduate college.

The average grade point of entering freshmen is 3.76 and their average composite SAT is 1830. The ACT average composite score is more than 27.

The 91探花in Seattle also enrolled 1,724 new transfer students this fall, of whom 1,355 attended community colleges in Washington state.听 With these new enrollments, the Seattle campus now has 43,762 students, of whom 28,754 are undergraduates.

The freshman class includes 181 African Americans, 1,794 Asian Americans, 74 Hawaiian/Pacific Islanders, 77 Native Americans and 455 Hispanics/Latinos. Overall, the numbers and percentages of under-represented minorities have increased over last year.

The 91探花Bothell this fall has a total enrollment of 4,604, with 4,077 undergraduates. Bothell has become the largest of the state鈥檚 five branch campuses. 91探花Tacoma’s enrollment is 4,295, with 3,587 undergraduates.听 In the total undergraduate population of the UW, 77.1 percent are residents of Washington.

Dean, educator, innovator, trailblazer, mentor, collaborative colleague, friend, inspirational leader, all these were facets of a career whose focal point and touchstone was the 91探花 School of Nursing, where she served as dean from 1975 to 1986 and as a faculty member until 1996.

There will be a memorial gathering held on Oct 13. For information regarding the memorial, please call 206-685-3440.

Her 91探花tenure encompassed a dramatic and dynamic phase of the School of Nursing鈥檚 growth. Her critical emphasis was upgrading the standards of the nursing profession and nursing faculty to be consistent with standards of other learned professions and disciplines.

The 91探花 was advancing to national prominence as an outstanding research university, and de Tornyay ensured the School of Nursing kept pace. Thus, faculty were held to the standard of doctoral preparation and research productivity that would become the norm for appointment, promotion and tenure in academia. The School of Nursing established one of the first programs in the country leading to the Ph.D. in nursing science, despite a lack of funding for the effort during a state financial crisis.听 She was capable of melding disparate viewpoints and differing personalities into an effective, highly focused, collaborative team鈥攁 team that shared a common goal and created the energy to reach that goal.

The results were the accomplishments that led the School of Nursing to its ranking as the top-rated nursing school in the country, a position it has held continuously since 1984. The school gained and sustained renown for the quality of its faculty, students, research, and teaching. The School of Nursing became a source of not just nurses, but also distinguished nurse-researchers, nurse-educators, and professional leaders. Its alumni are both legion and legend.

Though she was dean for slightly more than a decade, her impact and influence extended far beyond her time as dean at the School of Nursing.

De Tornyay鈥檚 landmark book, Strategies for Teaching Nursing, became the unquestioned standard in the field and influenced the way professionals were educated at nursing schools nationally and internationally. Through three editions and several translations over a span of 30 years, it exemplified a more collaborative and reflective approach to the teaching and learning process at a time when students were seen as passive recipients of knowledge.

Born Rheba Fradkin to a farming family in a rural area of Northern California, de Tornyay earned a bachelor’s degree in nursing from San Francisco State University in 1951, a master’s in education from San Francisco State University in 1954, and a doctorate in education from Stanford University in 1967. Her first faculty position was at the University of California, San Francisco. She was the second dean of the UCLA School of Nursing prior to assuming the helm of the 91探花School of Nursing.

De Tornyay’s list of firsts, awards, honors, and professional recognition is lengthy. It includes being only the third nurse elected to the Institute of Medicine; a Founding Fellow and the first board president of the American Academy of Nursing; a director of the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson Nurse Scholars Program; and the first woman and the first nurse ever elected to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation board of trustees. She endowed the 91探花School of Nursing鈥檚 Center for Healthy Aging (renamed in honor of de Tornyay and her husband, Rudy), was editor of the Journal of Nursing Education, and was a member of the American Nurses Association鈥檚 Commission on Nursing Education.

De Tornyay was a member of the National Advisory Council of the San Francisco Institute on Aging, and served as president of the 91探花Retirement Association. She was named a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing, which in 2011 renamed its annual fund in her honor.

De Tornyay鈥檚 final publication, in 2001, was the book, Choices: Making a Good Move to a Retirement Community. 听She continued teaching and learning at 91探花until her retirement in 1996.

Memorial gifts in de Tornyay’s honor should be directed to the de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging fund at the School of Nursing. Checks may be sent to the 91探花 School of Nursing, attn. Glory Visario, Box 357260, Seattle, WA 98195. More information is available at 206-543-3019.