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Faculty Assembly

Salary Oversight

Subject: Meeting of February 1, 2000

Members Present: Richard Blade, Jeffrey Ferguson, Catherine Mundy,
                                Don Morley, Vicki Mair, Al Ramirez

A. Unit Merit Issues
Committee members reached consensus that the unit merit plan as currently proposed was a serious error.  Flaws discussed included:
1. The practice would be divisive and was inconsistent with the interdisciplinary direction that this campus was taking.
2. The criteria for unit merit did not fit all units.  In particular the criteria did not fit the library faculty.
3. The size of the merit pool in recent years has been insufficient and unit merit would exacerbate the problem.
4. Unit merit probably does not fit this campus in that no unit on campus has the resources to generate Nobel prize winners or other extraordinary accomplishments.
5. Different colleges on campus have different operating units.  The Business College is a unit, while LAS uses each department as a unit.

B. Date Sources
The salary oversight committee attempted to discuss the kinds of data they would need from each college in order to do the job of salary oversight. However, the colleges have radically different evaluation processes and the types of data required would require more study.

C. Other Issues
The committee was directed to investigate the claim that the merit pool for Colorado Springs faculty last year arrived on campus at 3.4%, but ended up at 2.8%.