[CED/CD/EAT] FYI everyone: Promotion-related Salary Increases - Action Requested by 15 Feb 2021

Mon Dec 7 06:07:11 MST 2020

All,

It may be helpful to reference the established ALVSCE faculty promotion policy that has been increased each year by the Consumer Price Index.

https://compass.arizona.edu/dbs/policies/faculty-promotion-salary

Jeffrey

From: Burgess, Shane C - (shaneburgess) <sburgess at cals.arizona.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 6, 2020 11:22 PM
To: Greeno, Carolyne A - (cagreeno) <cagreeno at arizona.edu>; 'ced at list.cals.arizona.edu' <ced at list.cals.arizona.edu>; Armenta, Kristian Cole - (kcarmenta) <kcarmenta at arizona.edu>; Antin, Parker B - (pba) <pba at arizona.edu>; Silvertooth, Jeffrey C - (silverto) <Silver at ag.arizona.edu>; Ratje, Jeffrey M - (jmratje) <jmratje at arizona.edu>; Staten, Michael E - (statenm) <statenm at arizona.edu>; Brierley, Paul E - (paulbrierley) <paulbrierley at arizona.edu>; Davis, James M - (jdavis1) <JDavis at ag.arizona.edu>; Hingle, Melanie D - (hinglem) <hinglem at arizona.edu>; Mclain, Jean - (mclainj) <mclainj at arizona.edu>; Limesand, Kirsten H - (limesank) <limesank at arizona.edu>; McCarthy, Fiona M - (fionamcc) <fionamcc at arizona.edu>; Mcclaran, Mitchel P - (mcclaran) <mcclaran at arizona.edu>; Rahr, Matt - (rahr) <rahr at ag.arizona.edu>; Ratje, Jeffrey M - (jmratje) <jmratje at arizona.edu>; Rutherford, Janis KM - (jmathias) <jmathias at arizona.edu>; Rutledge, Bethany S - (rutledge) <rutledge at cals.arizona.edu>; Skorupski, Kayle Jeanne - (kayleskorupski) <kayleskorupski at arizona.edu>; Barton, Kina - (kina) <kina at arizona.edu>; Krogsgaard, Bethina - (bethinak) <bethinak at arizona.edu>; Oden, Belinda K - (belindaoden) <belindaoden at arizona.edu>; Shevchuk, Darren S - (shevchuk) <shevchuk at arizona.edu>; Sowerby, Samantha Blair - (sbsowerby) <sbsowerby at arizona.edu>; Stevens, Amanda M - (amanda84) <amanda84 at arizona.edu>; Teres, Kevin K - (kteres) <kteres at arizona.edu>; Chorover, Jon - (chorover) <chorover at arizona.edu>; Farrell-Poe, Kathryn L - (kittfp) <kittfp at arizona.edu>; Going, Scott B - (going) <going at arizona.edu>; Jenks, Matthew - (jenksm) <jenksm at arizona.edu>; Scaramella, Laura V - (scaramella) <scaramella at arizona.edu>; Stock, S. Patricia - (spstock) <spstock at arizona.edu>; Tabashnik, Bruce E - (tabashnb) <BruceT at cals.arizona.edu>; Thompson, Gary D - (gdthomps) <GaryT at ag.arizona.edu>; Torres, Robert M - (rtorres1) <rtorres1 at arizona.edu>; Van Leeuwen, Willem J - (leeuw) <leeuw at arizona.edu>
Subject: FYI everyone: Promotion-related Salary Increases - Action Requested by 15 Feb 2021

Regards
Shane

My mask protects you; your mask protects me. We’ve controlled infectious diseases without vaccines for thousands of years. Wearing our masks means we can have a functioning economy and concurrently save thousands of lives.

All UA employees, students and visitors must wear a face covering inside all UA buildings, unless alone in a single occupancy office, and in UA outdoor spaces where continuous physical distancing of at least six feet is difficult or impossible to maintain.

[E5742DFE]
Shane C. Burgess
Vice President for the Division of Agriculture, Life and Veterinary Sciences, and Cooperative Extension
Charles-Sander Dean of the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Forbes Building, Room 306 | 1140 E. South Campus Drive
P.O. Box 210036 | Tucson, AZ 85721-0036
Office: 520-621-7621
sburgess at cals.arizona.edu<mailto:sburgess at cals.arizona.edu>
alvsce.arizona.edu<https://alvsce.arizona.edu/>
cals.arizona.edu<https://cals.arizona.edu/>
twitter<https://twitter.com/UAAgLifeVetExt>

The University of Arizona is located statewide on the ancestral homelands of indigenous peoples.

From: Folks, Liesl - (liesl) <liesl at arizona.edu<mailto:liesl at arizona.edu>>
Sent: Wednesday, December 2, 2020 9:01 AM
To: Durand, Alain-Philippe - (adurand) <adurand at arizona.edu<mailto:adurand at arizona.edu>>; Schulz, Andrew - (apschulz) <apschulz at arizona.edu<mailto:apschulz at arizona.edu>>; White, Brent T - (brentwhite) <brentwhite at arizona.edu<mailto:brentwhite at arizona.edu>>; Johnson, Bruce - (brucej) <brucej at arizona.edu<mailto:brucej at arizona.edu>>; Carnie, Andrew H - (carnie) <carnie at arizona.edu<mailto:carnie at arizona.edu>>; Hahn, David W - (dwhahn) <dwhahn at arizona.edu<mailto:dwhahn at arizona.edu>>; Reed, Guy - (guyreed) <guyreed at arizona.edu<mailto:guyreed at arizona.edu>>; Hakim, Iman A - (ihakim) <ihakim at arizona.edu<mailto:ihakim at arizona.edu>>; Moore, Ida M - (imoore) <imoore at arizona.edu<mailto:imoore at arizona.edu>>; Jones, John Paul - (jpjones) <jpjones at arizona.edu<mailto:jpjones at arizona.edu>>; Cheu, Elliott C - (echeu) <echeu at arizona.edu<mailto:echeu at arizona.edu>>; Funk, Julie Ann - (juliefunk) <juliefunk at arizona.edu<mailto:juliefunk at arizona.edu>>; Abecassis, Michael M I - (mabecassis) <mabecassis at arizona.edu<mailto:mabecassis at arizona.edu>>; Miller, Marc L - (miller47) <miller47 at arizona.edu<mailto:miller47 at arizona.edu>>; Goes, Paulo B - (pgoes) <pgoes at arizona.edu<mailto:pgoes at arizona.edu>>; Pollock-Ellwand, Nancy Dorothy - (pollockellwand) <pollockellwand at arizona.edu<mailto:pollockellwand at arizona.edu>>; Burgess, Shane C - (shaneburgess) <sburgess at cals.arizona.edu<mailto:sburgess at cals.arizona.edu>>; Rick Schnellmann <schnell at pharmacy.arizona.edu<mailto:schnell at pharmacy.arizona.edu>>; Hunt, Terry L - (tlhunt) <tlhunt at arizona.edu<mailto:tlhunt at arizona.edu>>; tlk <tlkoch at optics.arizona.edu<mailto:tlkoch at optics.arizona.edu>>; Packard, Gary A - (gapackard) <gapackard at arizona.edu<mailto:gapackard at arizona.edu>>
Cc: Romero, Andrea J - (romeroa) <romeroa at arizona.edu<mailto:romeroa at arizona.edu>>; Robles-Parra, Clarisa Marie - (clarisarobles) <clarisarobles at arizona.edu<mailto:clarisarobles at arizona.edu>>
Subject: Promotion-related Salary Increases - Action Requested by 15 Feb 2021

 Dear Academic College deans,

As you are fully aware, the promotions from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor, and from Associate Professor to Professor, represent major milestones in the careers of our faculty, and entail an enormous number of contributions across the axes of research, teaching, service, extension and clinical impacts.  The achievement of promotion is usually recognized with a salary increase, but our data show that the amount of these salary increases varies considerably in some cases, even within departments, since they often incorporate concomitant equity, market and merit adjustments. Unfortunately, this approach has led to a sense of inequity among some of our faculty, who cannot easily tease apart the drivers for differential salary outcomes between apparent peers.

Following up on our robust discussion this week in the Deans meeting (11/29/2020), we are writing to ask you to institute within your college a fixed, percentage-driven, base salary increase to be associated with each of the major career promotion steps, to be effective 1 July 2021.  Our recommendation is for these raises to be set at 10% increase in base salary for each of the two major promotions.

Note that by instituting this change, we aim to specifically separate promotion-related raises from any other raises that may be necessary for market and merit considerations, and provide improved clarity for faculty about their employment conditions.  Further, by making this change, we aim to reduce potential salary inequities related to gender and race, while recognizing that it will not remove all possible drivers of inequity.  We would further point out that it will be beneficial for you to separate temporally other adjustments (e.g., market and merit) to ensure clarity around what is being recognized with each salary adjustment, and to continue to provide a written record of the motivations for each salary increase.

We further recognize that some Colleges have established protocols for promotion increases already, which may be working well internally, and that in such cases there may be resistance to changing the protocol to align more strongly with a U-wide approach.  We are further aware that making this proposed change may introduce compression issues that will need to be addressed separately.  We look forward to discussing these challenges with the relevant deans, as needed, and we can work with UAIR to provide any data analysis that would be useful to your college-wide review and discussions.

We welcome your feedback and further discussion on this request for compensation practice changes at the College level.

We request your response to this request by no later than Monday 15 February 2021.  Please share your feedback / action plan to Clarisa (copied herein) so we can aggregate the responses into a U-wide summary.

With thanks,

Liesl Folks

Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

Andrea Romero
Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs

[The University of Arizona block 'A' logo.]
Liesl Folks, PhD, MBA
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

Administration, 411
P.O. Box 210066 | Tucson, AZ 85721
Office: 520-626-8121
liesl at arizona.edu<mailto:liesl at arizona.edu>
She / Her / Hers
www.arizona.edu<https://www.arizona.edu>
facebook<https://facebook.com/uarizona> | twitter<https://twitter.com/uarizona> | instagram<https://www.instagram.com/uarizona> | linkedin<https://www.linkedin.com/school/the-university-of-arizona>

The University of Arizona is located on Tohono O'odham Nation
homelands and the lands of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe.
[Integrety, Compassion, Exploration, Adaptation, Inclusion, Determination]<https://brand.arizona.edu/signature>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://list.cals.arizona.edu/pipermail/ced/attachments/20201207/b8bec37b/attachment.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.png
Type: image/png
Size: 6310 bytes
Desc: image001.png
URL: <https://list.cals.arizona.edu/pipermail/ced/attachments/20201207/b8bec37b/attachment.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image002.png
Type: image/png
Size: 9223 bytes
Desc: image002.png
URL: <https://list.cals.arizona.edu/pipermail/ced/attachments/20201207/b8bec37b/attachment-0001.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image003.png
Type: image/png
Size: 24616 bytes
Desc: image003.png
URL: <https://list.cals.arizona.edu/pipermail/ced/attachments/20201207/b8bec37b/attachment-0002.png>