Highlights of Faculty Task Force Recommendations : Salaries
- Institute a comprehensive, rational salary structure to move faculty to salary parity with top-tier universities.
- Mandate a series of baseline salaries, indexed to nationally recognized salary studies by discipline.
- Automatically adjust all salaries annually to keep up with the national rate of inflation.
- Mandate stable and predictable merit raises by distributing them in guaranteed fixed increments.
- Base all merit evaluations on periods of three years or more and provide for annual “career merit” adjustments.
- Mandate that merit raises are tied explicitly to the faculty memberšs assigned duties and evaluation of assigned duties.
- Mandate a larger fixed-percentage merit raise each year for the top-performing faculty in each department/college.
- End salary inversion among ranks.
- Guarantee that within two years junior faculty will always make salaries higher than those awarded to new hires.
- Mandate that raises will always take effect at the start of the academic year.
