Departmental Merit Criteria. Upon implementation of this current contract, merit increases will be based on the calendar year rather than the academic year, which has been the past practice. This shift in the merit cycle is intended to give more time for the submission and processing of merit raises with the ultimate goal of synchronizing them with payroll. Annual raises shall be based on Spring/Summer/Fall activities and on those of any immediately preceding period that was not included in the previous merit evaluation. Units that, due to the reorganization of Summer 2020, now contain faculty who were previously subject to differing sets of merit guidelines shall develop and submit new merit guidelines by the end of week five (5) of the Spring 2021 semester. The department chair/director, xxxx, and the Xxxxxxx shall review these new guidelines and provide feedback as appropriate by the end of week ten (10) of the Spring 2021 semester. The bargaining unit faculty shall resubmit the guidelines by the end of week fifteen (15) of the Spring 2021 semester. The goal is to have these new guidelines administratively approved to take effect in calendar year 2022. Although not required, any unit may revise its merit guidelines based on a majority vote of the unit’s bargaining unit faculty. These revised guidelines shall be developed and submitted to the chair/director by the end of week five (5) of the Spring semester. The department chair/director, xxxx, and the Xxxxxxx shall review these new guidelines and provide feedback as appropriate by end of week ten (10) of the Spring semester. The bargaining unit faculty shall resubmit the guidelines by the end of week fifteen (15) of the Spring semester. The goal is to have these revised guidelines administratively approved to take effect by the next calendar year. Annual merit raises may be based on up to a three (3) year rolling average if academic unit merit guidelines so indicate. In addition to any materials required by this Agreement, by department merit criteria, or by the department chair/director, bargaining unit faculty may include whatever material will provide evidence of successful teaching, scholarship or service.
Departmental Merit Criteria. Each department shall formulate and adopt by majority vote of its bargaining unit faculty criteria for merit evaluations with specified weighting for the research, teaching, and service components. These criteria may subsequently be modified only by a majority vote of the department bargaining unit faculty. The department chair, xxxx, and the Senior Vice President and Xxxxxxx must also approve these criteria.
