Introduction to the UPPM

The University Policies and Procedures Manual (UPPM) contains administrative policies and procedures relating to WSU. The UPPM is intended to guide and assist University employees, administrators, and others in the conduct of day-to-day functions of WSU.

Management of the UPPM

The UPPM is managed by the Office of Policies, Records, and Forms (PRF). For information regarding developing a new policy or revising an existing policy, see the PRF website or contact PRF; email policies@wsu.edu. The policy development and review process is set forth in UPPM 10.38.

Chapter 1 of the UPPM includes WSU Board of Regents policies and procedures, which relate to the Board’s governance of WSU and the conduct of business of the Board. The Board approves policies in this chapter pursuant to its Bylaws and reviews the policies at least once every three years.

UPPM 10.38 also sets forth departmental responsibilities for ensuring policies are accurate and up to date. Although departmental policy owners have responsibility for ensuring the accuracy of their policies, PRF works with departments to help ensure necessary revisions are made in a timely manner. PRF also reserves the right to remove policies that are inaccurate or out of date.

PRF maintains the authoritative version of the UPPM online in HTML. Users may print or save copies to PDF.

Policy Revision History

Substantive revisions are identified in a revision history section at the end of the policy. The revision history provides a list of the substantive revision dates, in descending order of publication (newest to oldest).

For revisions published since 2016, links are provided in the revision history to revision memos which summarize the changes. For revisions published prior to 2016, users may contact PRF for archive copies of the revision memos.