Identify Activity That Will Require
Augmentation in FY 2001-02
FACULTY PROMOTION
INCREASES - $175,000
The Division requests
$175,000 in permanent funds to cover the costs associated
with faculty salary increases resulting from promotions
that will be effective Fall 2001. This request is based
on an estimate of thirty-five to forty promotions (there
were thirty-five promotions effective Fall 2000), and the
requirement under the current Collective Bargaining Agreement
that promotion be accompanied by a 7.5 percent permanent
salary increase.
The costs of faculty
promotion increases have always been borne by the College
in the first year of promotion. Up to and including the
current fiscal year (2000-2001), however--through the process
known as “annualization” – those costs
have been picked up by the University in the following year.
That is, the University has made each College “whole”
by augmenting the College’s base budget by an amount
equal to the total costs of promotions for the preceding
year. Since the practice of annualization will end after
the current year, salary increases for promotion will become
permanent obligations of the Colleges. The $175,000 that
the Division is requesting will fund these anticipated increases
beginning Fall 2001.
As noted above, there
were thirty-five faculty promotions that were effective
Fall 2001; total costs for promotion salary increases were
approximately $155,000. A slightly higher amount is being
requested for FY2001-02 because we anticipate a slight increase
in the number of promotions compared to FY2000-01, and promotion
increases will be calculated against salaries that are,
in general, 6 percent larger than one year ago. In addition,
the current Collective Bargaining Agreement also required
all CSU campuses to develop a process for Lecturer Range
Elevation (analogous to promotion for tenured and tenure-track
faculty), which results in a salary increases of 5 percent.
The first Range Elevations occurred in 1999-2000 and 2000-2001.
Based on the experience of these first two years, it is
estimated that there may be ten to twelve such actions per
year. Given that Lecturers become eligible for Range Elevation
by virtue of long experience on this campus, the costs associated
with such actions must also be considered as essentially
permanent.
