Senate encourages comments from faculty

The following Salary Policy has been drafted by the Faculty Senate with input from the Dean's Council. This issue should be of interest to all faculty.

Please review the policy and send any comments you might have to your faculty senate representative. If you are unsure who your senate representatives are, a full list can be seen in the box to the right or found on the Faculty Senate web page at http://www.musc.edu/facsen/96facsen.htm.

Comments can also be sent to the Executive Committee (a link to the Executive Committee is available on the web). The senate expects to vote on this policy at the Oct. 7 Faculty Senate Meeting.

The Policy for Faculty Salary Increases, revised Aug. 18, will be dispersed to the University Faculty prior to a final vote by the Senate (10/7/97). Salary increases for Faculty members will be distributed as merit based increases.

• When funds are designated for faculty salary increases, the amount and the procedure for allocation of these funds will be communicated to the Faculty.
• All funds will be distributed as merit increases, based on the approved Faculty Performance Evaluation Form, which is mentioned in section 9.2 of the University Faculty Handbook. Should the faculty disagree with his or her supervisor's evaluation, he or she should make written comments on the Performance Evaluation Form before signing it.
• The details of faculty merit salary distribution are based on the annual evaluation: The college/department identifies merit salary monies to be distributed to faculty.

Within each college/department as a result of the annual evaluation process, each faculty member is rated in overall performance as follows: unacceptable, marginal, satisfactory, very good, outstanding.

These rating categories are each assigned a weighting factor (0-Unacceptable, 0.5-Marginal, 1.0- Satisfactory, 1.5- Very Good, 2.0- Outstanding). The ratings would be summed for all faculty. The identified merit salary monies to be distributed would be divided by this sum resulting in the dollar amount value of one unit of merit salary money.

Each faculty member would receive as a merit increase the dollar amount value of one unit multiplied by the weighting factor of the overall rating of their evaluation.

* Example: A department uses the above weighting factors as follows: 0- Unacceptable, 0.5- Marginal, 1.0- Satisfactory, 1.5- Very Good, 2.0- Outstanding. The department consists of 10 faculty who have the following ratings on their Faculty Performance Evaluation Form: one Marginal (0.5), seven Satisfactory (1.0), one Very Good (1.5), and one Outstanding (2.0). The sum of the weighting factor for the ten faculty is 11 (0.5 + 7 + 1.5 + 2.0).

The department had a total of $11,000 available for merit increases. One unit of merit salary is calculated to be $1000 ($11,000/11). The faculty member rated marginal receives a $500 increase, the faculty members rated satisfactory receive a $1,000 increase, the faculty member rated very good receives a $1,500 increase and the faculty member rated outstanding receives a $2,000 increase. The total increase for the faculty is $11,000.

*Adjustments for equity increases are excluded from the formula.

1997-98 Faculty Senate Representatives

College of Dental Medicine Joseph Assad (term expires 1998); Richard Duncan (term expires 1998); Cynthia Hardin (term expires 1999); John Rampton (term expires 1999); alternate: James Knight

College of Health Professions Thierry Bacro (term expires 1999); Anne O. Kilpatrick (term expires 1998); Lisa Saladin (term expires 1998); David Ward (term expires 1999); alternate: Liless Shilling

College of Medicine - Basic Sciences Hank Martin (term expires 1998); Kathryn Meier (term expires 1999); Philip Privitera (term expires 1998); Eleanor Spicer (term expires 1999); Jerry Webb (term expires 1999); alternate: Michael Schmidt; alternate: Gabriel Virella

College of Medicine - Clinical Sciences Byron Bailey (term expires 1999); Karl Byrne (term expires 1998); Peter Carek (term expires 1999); Florence Hutchison (term expires 1999); Sherron Jackson (term expires 1999); Charles Kellner (term expires 1998); Janice Key (term expires 1999); Lyndon Key (term expires 1998); Maria Lopez-Virella (term expires 1999) Robert Malcolm (term expires 1998); Douglas Norcross (term expires 1998); Sunil Patel (term expires 1998) Leslye Pennypacker (term expires 1999); David Ploth (term expires 1999); Adrian Reuben (term expires 1999); Susan Tate (term expires 1999); Sally Webb (term expires 1998); James Zellner (term expires 1999); alternate: Paul Darden; alternate: Roger Newman; alternate: Barry Hainer; alternate: Patrick Flume

College of Nursing Elizabeth Huggins (term expires 1999); Yvonne Michel (term expires 1999); Carol Smith (term expires 1998); Nancy Worley (term expires 1999); alternate: Mardi Long

College of Pharmacy Sandra Garner (term expires 1999); Cherry Jackson (term expires 1998); Jean Nappi (term expires 1999); Don Wiest (term expires 1998); alternate: Edward Reynolds

General Faculty Starr Hazard (term expires 1998); Margret Mauldin (term expires 1999) Bob Poyer (term expires 1998); Donald Tyner (term expires 1999); alternate: Delores Boggan