Resolution 79-80-24

Cost of Living; Faculty Salaries; Merit Pay

Whereas: In Faculty Senate Resolution 79-80-1, the second sentence of paragraph 3 reads: AThe Faculty Senate recommends that no faculty member participate in a committee which allocates real salary decreases on any basis other than a uniform percentage to each faculty member.@ Therefore: Since it seems likely that a real salary decrease will occur once again this year, faculty members are urged not to make differential merit ratings that are to be used for differential salary allocations. The spirit of the Senate=s resolution can be fulfilled by finding that all faculty members have at least sufficient merit (with a few possible exceptions) to participate equally in any salary allocation that is below the Consumer Price Index. All have equal merit at this reduced level.

Resolution Number: 79-80-24

Author: Donald Lewis

Date: March 19, 1980

Action Taken: Defeated