Are you scheduled to teach or TA a course or workshop at FHL? Start by reading the Expectations for FHL Instructors, then submit the required forms and documents below in order to secure campus housing and/or a teaching appointment, if applicable. Submit these as soon as possible!
Reserve Housing
The location of FHL on a remote island with little available rental housing supports the need to house instructors on campus if they do not have homes on island. If you are scheduled to teach at FHL and require housing, you are responsible for submitting an application to let the Visitor Coordinator know to reserve a unit for you. As long as the application is submitted by the application deadlines for the season, you will have a housing unit for the dates of the course and, if available, up to seven additional nights, with costs covered by FHL. Note that this applies only to primary instructors (up to two per summer course) and TAs; we do not cover housing for guest speakers.
Follow the link below to submit your application. Choose “FHL Course Instructor” or “FHL Course TA” as your role and take the questions from there. The Visitor Coordinator will do their best to accommodate a buffer of days on either side of the course dates for set up and clean up; this may only be one day in the summer. If you have a request for a specific type of housing unit, let us know in the notes about your housing in the application (TAs will generally receive grad dorm rooms). The Visitor Coordinator will do their best to accommodate your request but it is not always possible due to other factors in the schedule; if you have a second favorite housing option, let us know that, too! Every effort is made to select favorable units for instructors even if it isn’t specifically your personal favorite. If you do not fill out the visitor/researcher application by the seasonal application deadlines, the likelihood that you will receive your housing pick is significantly reduced.
Researcher/Visitor Application
Submit Documents for your Faculty Appointment
This applies only to faculty of UW credited courses, and not to TAs or workshop instructors.
FHL courses and apprenticeships are University of Washington credited programs and as such, require that instructors receive vetted UW faculty appointments. Even current UW employees with non-instructional positions (e.g. research scientists or staff) must be formally appointed in order to teach an FHL course, and individuals with previous experience as FHL instructors must receive a fresh appointment each time.
The documents listed below are required by UW Academic HR for the appointment. Because the approval process takes time, the documents should be submitted at least four months in advance of the appointment start date.
After FHL has received the required documents, we send the instructor an offer letter to sign. The signed letter, together with the documents listed below, are delivered to the appointing committee at UW School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences (SAFS) for approval.
The committee reviews the paperwork for all FHL instructors for a quarter at the same time. Any instructor whose documents are not submitted in a timely manner will hold up the hires for all instructors that quarter.
Submit the following as PDFs via the links below (not by email and not as Word documents). The file names should begin with the last name of the prospective FHL instructor.
Three (3) recently dated letters of recommendation
These should recommend the person specifically for teaching the course they are slated to teach at FHL. A letter extolling an individual’s virtues as a scientist but not addressing their suitability as an instructor for the course in question will not be sufficient. Letters from FHL resident faculty or course co-instructor(s) are permissible. The letters should be on institutional letterhead, submitted via the link below.
Submit Letter of Recommendation
An up-to-date CV
Please be sure it includes recent activities.
Also Required
A Sexual Misconduct Declaration (SMD) form.
FHL will provide each instructor with a link for filling out that form.
For Graduate TA Appointments
Please email FHL Operations Manager Bernadette Holthuis to let them know:
1) Your UW department
2) your expected academic status at the start of the term you’ll be TA’ing:
- bachelor’s degree only
- master’s degree, but not yet doctoral candidate
- doctoral candidate
Your pay will follow UW pay tables for your department and academic status.