Merit Salary Increases for Full Professors. Effective with post-tenure reviews conducted during the 2015-16 academic year, full professors will be eligible for merit salary increases associated with their post-tenure reviews as follows:
(a) Those full professors who are judged at the conclusion of their post- tenure review to have exceeded the expectations for teaching (as described in their FAP) will receive a three percent (3.0%) increase in their base salary.
(b) Those full professors who are judged to have exceeded expectations in teaching AND either their scholarship/creative activity or service responsibilities (as described in the FAP) during the post-tenure review will receive a five percent (5.0%) increase in their base salary.
(c) Full professors who qualify for salary increases through the post-tenure review process will receive their increases effective the beginning of the academic year following their review. Merit increases will be added to salaries after first adding any general or other increases that may be provided by this Agreement.
(d) Faculty may petition the Chief Academic Officer for reconsideration of a decision regarding a merit salary increase. The Chief Academic Officer’s ruling on the petition will be final, and will not be subject to further review or the grievance procedure.
(e) Full professors with an existing FAP as of the date of this Agreement scheduled for post-tenure review during the 2015-16 or later years, who wish to be considered for a post-tenure merit increase, will submit their FAP for review during the 2013-14 academic year. The FAP will be reviewed and, if necessary, revised to ensure that it provides appropriate expectations according to the process described in Section
