Individual faculty will, in the ordinary course of their development, determine the weight of these various commitments, and adjust them from time to time during their careers, in response to their individual, professional development and the changing needs of their professions, of their programs, departments, schools and colleges, and the University. Such versatility and flexibility are hallmarks of respected institutions of higher education because they are conducive to establishing and maintaining the excellence of a university and to fulfilling the educational and social role of the institution. The third is the development of institutional procedures which facilitate the application of human resources across all three campuses to the effective, continuing development of the Three Campus University of Washington and, therefore, of UW Bothell, UW Seattle and UW Tacoma. Thus, each institution, regardless of the governing structures within the UW, cannot help but have an abiding interest in the activities of the other two. Because the three campuses are geographically close to one another, a significant number of prospective students in the Puget Sound region are best served if new programs at all three campuses are developed with strategic complementarity in mind.
Collaboration is essential to achieving that goal.
Some students from UW Seattle transfer to UW Bothell or UW Tacoma in their junior year, e.g., some business majors. Some baccalaureate graduates from UW Bothell and UW Tacoma move to graduate programs at UW Seattle, e.g., some freshly minted UW Bothell and UW Tacoma BS Nursing graduates enter graduate programs at UW Seattle. Effective articulation and transfer is very important to students and faculty alike across the three campuses. Some of the programs at UW Bothell, UW Tacoma, and UW Seattle currently are linked inexorably to each other via a common accreditation. These linkages may or may not be present a decade from now, but they will persist at least in the near future.