Faculty get extra time for reports
By Jason Kosareff
Daily Forty-Niner
After a mad rush in spring to meke out
their reports, California State University faculty members have a new deadline
to write reports detailing why they deserve raises based on merit.
On May 3, faculty members were required
to turn in a report to be considered for a merit-pay raise. This deadline
was changed to Oct. 1, according to the CSU Faculty Contract, after a labor
contract between the faculty union and the CSU administration was reached.
The labor contract gives faculty an across-the-board
raise of 3 percent and a chance to grab merit-based raises.
Some faculty resented the timing of the
previous date, according to union officials in spring. Professors complained
it was unfair to have to turn in the reports while they had to grade papers
and prepare final exams.
"Their work wasn’t for naught," said Sam
Strafaci, senior director of employee relations at the Chancellor’s Office.
The reports will still be considered for the merit raises.
Faculty union officials could not be reached
for comment.
The California Faculty Association -- a
union representing 20,000 CSU professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors
and coaches -- and the CSU administration bickered for more than a year
to negotiate a deal.
About 60 percent of faculty turned in their
reports. The previous deadline was not enforced and faculty who made the
spring deadline will be allowed to revise their reports.
Those who did not turn in their reports
in spring will not be disciplined, said Gary Reichard, associate vice president
for Academic Affairs.
The reports are still on file with the
department heads and professors can leave the reports the way they are
written or faculty can ask for the reports back to revise them.
"There was a great deal of union unhappiness,"
Reichard said.
So far, none of the reports have been read,
Faculty will have to turn in two reports
reflecting their performance for 1999 and 1998. Raises will be retroactive
for professors who qualify for those years.
In the reports, professors have to describe
their contributions to student development and also their scholarly and
creative activities, such as books and journal articles they have written
performances and grant proposals.
Each department decides for itself the
process it wants to use to evaluate the reports and decide on the raise.
Raises can be up to 7.5 percent of professor’s base pay. |
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