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Ghost of Carl Sagan


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The college of arts and letters had a college meeting.  Among the topics discussed was raises for college faculty and staff.  While it was presented as following the "spirit" of the faculty senate proposal, I must disagree.  The plan seems to be that each department will have a pool of about 4% of the salary to use.  This is unfortunate since in this old model, the rich will get richer, rich departments will get richer, and likely, staff get shafted.  One of the chairs  told me that using annual reviews, each faculty will be assigned a number from 0 to 5.  Let's say your evaluated at 4.5.  The dean's office will subtract 1 (presumably this goes to the dean's office budget).  The faculty will get a 3.5% raise.  Some money may be used to address other issues in the department so it may be that some salaries will be adjusted.  Certainly this model will never address the differences between salaries at comparable institutions and USM has been steadily falling behind for a number of years. 

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Let's see-- 3.5% for faculty member.. 1% for Deans office = 4.5% from a 4% pool. Who gets left out? Must be staff.

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The pool is understood to be 5% but if the deans' offices take 1% then that leaves 4%.  Essentially each college gets the 5% pool, then that is distributed (minus 1%) to departments, at least that is how I was informed.  Even though rich colleges have a bigger pool, very small departments with no senior faculty get "relatively" little.  College staff will be included in the departmental pools, I believe.

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Why are the colleges allowed to keep 1%? If 5% is for raises, 5% should be given!

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This is wrong information - be more careful what you speak of.  All of the 5% goes to the department - none stays in the Dean's Office.

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Anonymous wrote:

This is wrong information - be more careful what you speak of.  All of the 5% goes to the department - none stays in the Dean's Office.


I stand corrected.  But your FAR must be submitted for raises.  I wonder who will be looking over these to make final determinations?

Carl



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The FAR was never supposed to impact raises and the CoAL interim dean is not consulting the FAR or making adjustments to raises - it is all in the departments this year, as it should be.

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Actually, I hear on reliable information that the dean's offices are compiling FAR information and having the departmental staff "correct" the FAR, especially as to numbers of students taught etc.  I strongly urge the dean's offices not to monkey with departmental recommendations and hope that this is simply a way to provide "documentation" to the Dome.  Now, what will the Dome do with the information? 

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Actually, I hear on reliable information that the dean's offices are compiling FAR information and having the departmental staff "correct" the FAR, especially as to numbers of students taught etc.  I strongly urge the dean's offices not to monkey with departmental recommendations and hope that this is simply a way to provide "documentation" to the Dome.  Now, what will the Dome do with the information? 


What will the dome do?  That is precisely the question.  I understand that each college is doing things differently, but in the end, I believe the result will be the same as last year and the year before that, and the year before that...

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Could faculty posters explain a bit for the rest of us? I know what the FAR is, etc, but when you say "the Dome" at this stage, who are you talking about? Are budget decisions being made now which will bind Dr. Saunders for another year? Is she participating in this process?

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Could faculty posters explain a bit for the rest of us? I know what the FAR is, etc, but when you say "the Dome" at this stage, who are you talking about? Are budget decisions being made now which will bind Dr. Saunders for another year? Is she participating in this process?


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Unfortunately attempts to get a clear picture of the process by which raises will be finally determined have not been successful.  We don't know the timetable, we don't know what all deans intend to do, and we have no idea what the current administration intends.  Given that faculty are being told to submit selected data from FAR in a form sent, apparently from the dome, another vita (most of us submit a vita for each annual review), and some summary from the chair from the annual review, there is no telling.  Having talked to colleagues, many "FAR forms" are inaccurate.  The final section deals with "economic development."  I suspect the dome will "cherry pick" data to arrive at conclusions they have already reached.  Hopefully more information from administration will be forthcoming.
Carl

 



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Faculty in the College of Arts and Letters must submit an up-to-date vita to their chair/director for merit raises - FAR information was requested.

Having been on campus more than 10 years and in two different colleges/departments, it has always been confusing to me that the different colleges handle the same fuctions in different ways. In my opinion, consistency across the board is a must for any organization. However I was told after I was hired that if an idea is logical, turn it 180 degrees and that is how the university will handle it.

I understand that Dr. Saunders will present the recommend raises for faculty and staff to IHL in June.

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