Proposal #42
Proposal Title: Market Equity Salary Increases
Anticipated Savings/Revenue: unknown
Units affected: Various
Impacted Degrees/Courses: Various
Brief Description of Proposal:
Presumably, there are departments/programs, or colleges where quite a number of faculty have applied for and received Market Equity Salary Increases, because of the nature of salaries in those industries relative to academic salaries. Over time, those departments/programs/colleges become expensive, due to inflated salaries, which become built into the College budgets in the form of salaries for T/TT faculty members.
Potential solutions would be Presidential approval of any such increases (although that may already be the case), or a greater willingness to say, "If you are so valuable on the market, please leave now." Those who do leave will give up tenure, possibly being vested in PERS, and probably a substantial amount of job security and on-the-job autonomy.
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