Directory

Your background and experience are of interest to students, particularly when they are evaluating courses for upcoming registration periods. Contact the Assistant Director for Content to have your photo taken for the web directory or to make other arrangements to have your photo included in the directory.

Your profile data in the faculty directory is drawn from an online database called Watermark. Use your UW NetID and password to log into your user account and update your information. The screens in Watermark with content reflected in the directory are Intellectual Contributions, Presentations, Awards and Honors, Consulting and Other Projects, Education, Memberships, Personal and Contact Information (includes bio and areas of expertise).

iSchool Contacts

• Guest faculty administrative issues: Guest Faculty Coordinator
• Guest faculty & student employee HR issues: iSchool Academics HR
• Online learning questions: Learning Tech team
• Informatics program chair: Joel Ross
• MLIS program chair: Cindy Aden
• MSIM program chair: David Hendry
• Museology program director: Jessica Luke
• Ph.D. program chair: Alexis Hiniker
• Associate dean for academics: Matthew Saxton

Student Support for Faculty

GA Crew

The GA Crew is a group of graduate assistants available to administratively assist iSchool faculty. A GA can help set up course sites in our Canvas Learning Management System, order text books, retrieve books from the library or just provide another pair of eyes, ears and legs on campus. Please email gahelp@uw.edu to request GA Crew assistance.

Teaching Assistants

If your confirmation letter indicated you would be assigned TA help and you have questions about this, please contact ihrhelp@uw.edu for information. If your course has a TA assigned, you may contact them directly after their start of employment, which is as follows:

• Autumn: September 16
• Winter: December 16
• Spring: March 16
• Summer: June 16

Research Assistants

For information about hiring a research assistant, please isit the intranet for more information, and if you have further questions, reach out to iSchool HR at ihrhelp@uw.edu. 

Your Courses

For faculty, in the My Class Resources section of MyUW for the quarter you are teaching, you can get your class list and check for schedule, class size, and grading options.

Please contact the Guest Faculty coordinator with questions regarding My Class Resources. Please update the Final Exam information to match your class, and add your course web site URL when it is ready.