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Faculty Assembly

11-10-00

and Policy for Faculty"; namely "Highly productive units should be more highly rewarded than less productive units, just as highly productive faculty should be more highly rewarded than less productive faculty".

Let it be Resolved

The University of Colorado Faculty Council strongly supports the principle that merit should be the criterion used to allocate salary raises as stated in the first bullet on page 1 of the Regentally approved "University of Colorado Compensation Principles and Policy for Faculty".

The Faculty Council requests that the following paragraph be inserted in Page6.2.B "Role of Primary Unit, Department Chair, and Dean" in the "University of Colorado Compensation Principles and Policy for Faculty" document as follows:

"Campus merit evaluation processes must carefully balance the need to reward extraordinary performance with the need to reward meritorious performance that is the backbone of the university. Campuses should set goals for salary allocations that embody this principle of fairness."

The Faculty Council requests that the following paragraph be inserted in Page6.2.B "Merit; Market and Other Factors, Section #1" in the "University of Colorado Compensation Principles and Policy for Faculty" document as follows:

"In order to identify highly productive units for purposes of unit merit allocations, each campus, in a collegial process involving faculty and administrators, should develop a process for evaluating jhe merit of academic units. This should be done using criteria that assess the contributions of the unit to the campus’s role and mission in the areas of teaching research/creative works, service and, at appropriate units of the Health Sciences Center, clinical practice."

The Faculty Council recognizes the University’s efforts to expand the source of funds that provide the salary increases at or above the Front Range CPI plus 1% level.

Comment:

The Faculty Council realizes that the fair and equitable implementation of these principles will take time as well as careful planning and preparation. The Faculty Council urges the Administration and Faculty work together towards achieving these goals in a timely manner. Issues in these discussions are how to allocate funds to correct for market forces, career merit adjustments, and equity adjustments.