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General Faculty Salary Increase Equity Issue. The “Salary & Wage Increases” website (http://www.virginia.edu./budget/faqSalary.html) on the University’s Budget Office webpage documents that, since 1987, when Administrative and Professional General Faculty lost the right to promotion in ranks, we also began to lose equity in salary increases. We understand that all faculty salary increases are merit-based. However, we question why administrative and professional faculty are distinguished from teaching and research faculty in the base percentage salary increases allotted to faculty. The salary increase inequity has been particularly pronounced since 1998/99, when the percentage increase was less than that for teaching and research faculty, and for classified staff. Since FY1998, administrative and professional general faculty have received smaller increases than other faculty four of the seven years with no one receiving raises in another two of the seven years. In addition, in FY2004, while our state-funded raises were the same, the additional salary increase funding provided by the Board of Visitors was distributed to administrative and professional faculty as the last priority—and required special justification if a Dean wished to award an amount over 10%, as opposed to over 15% for teaching and research faculty. Further, the plan from SCHEV for raises in the 2004-2006 budget biennium is to award 5.2% to teaching and research faculty but only 3% to administrative and professional faculty. We believe that administrative and professional general faculty contribute equally with other faculty and staff to the mission and success of this institution. We feel that we should be rewarded equally for that effort. Resolution: The General Faculty Council urges the University of Virginia administration to pursue salary increases for administrative and professional faculty equal to those enjoyed by their fellow faculty members, regardless of the funding source. |
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